The Doc 9284 contains the only legal source of regulations for the safe transport of dangerous goods by air. Shippers, operators, State authorities and anyone else involved in the air transport chain will find in this manual all of the detailed regulations necessary for the safe transport of dangerous good by air.
This manual is also known as the Technical Instructions or the TI’s.
Note:
The Recommendations on Tests and Criteria, which are incorporated by reference into certain provisions of these Technical Instructions, are published as a separate manual (United Nations Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Manual of Tests and Criteria), the contents of which are:
Part I: Relating to explosives;
Part II: Relating to self-reactive substances, organic peroxides and polymerizing substances;
Part III: Relating to aerosols, desensitized explosives (relating to transport only), flammable liquids, flammable solids, pyrophoric liquids and solids, substances which in contact with water emit flammable gases, oxidizing liquids and solids, chemically unstable gases and gas mixtures, substances corrosive to metals, and substances and articles of transport Class 9 (ammonium nitrate fertilizers, lithium metal and lithium ion batteries) and solid ammonium nitrate based fertilizers;
Part IV: Test methods concerning transport equipment; and
Part V: Classification procedures, test methods and criteria relating to sectors other than transport.
Appendices. Information common to a number of different types of tests and national contacts for test details.
Doc 9284 Supplement provides information on the safe transport of dangerous goods by air that is primarily of interest to States. It supplements or explains in greater depth the basic information contained in the Technical Instructions.
Also available:
ICAO 9284 (book Secured pdf)
ICAO 9284 Supplement (book)
ICAO 9284 (Secured pdf)
ICAO 9284 Supplement (Secured pdf)
ICAO 9481 – Emergency Response Guidance for Aircraft Incidents involving Dangerous Goods (book)
