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General

Hazardous substance data are managed in COGLAS. Settings are used on the article master and on the warehouse topology.

Prerequisite for COGLAS Hazardous Substance Management:

  • Storage option “Processes – Activate hazardous material”.
  • Optional – maintenance of the hazardous material data at the article master.
  • Optional – maintenance of the hazardous material area and assignment to storage nodes.

Menu Overview:

  • System – warehouse structure – hazardous materials area
  • System – Warehouse structure – Storage together table

Hazardous materials area

Menu call via “System – Storage structure – Hazardous material area”.

The Hazardous Material Zone is a Hazardous Material Zone ID with the additional information about the weight per zone and “Hazardous Material Only” on/off.

The maintenance and recording takes place in the “Hazardous material area”. The assignment to a storage node is done via the “Warehouse overview overview – Zones”.

Hazardous material areas are defined in the warehouse areas form.

Field name header:

  • Name: Clear designation for the hazardous material area.
  • Weight (optional): Maximum weight of the allowed quantity of hazardous material.
  • Hazardous material only (optional): Prevents the storage or unplanned transfer of non-hazardous materials to the selected area.

Hazardous material storage classes – if necessary with additional weight restrictions – are assigned to the hazardous material area by means of positions.

Field name position:

  • Storage Classes: A list of the classes of hazardous materials that are storaged in this area.
  • Weight (optional): The associated maximum weight for these bearing classes.

In principle, all bearing classes can be combined in the range positions. The actual storage of hazardous substances within an area is determined by the hazardous material joint storage table.

The first hazardous material storage class that is stored in the area determines which substances may be added. With each additional class, the allowance of other storage classes can be further restricted.

The assignment of the created hazardous material areas to entire storage nodes or individual locations takes place via the warehouse overview.

In the Zones tab, the hazardous material areas can be assigned to a node by the zone type “Hazardous material storage”. The classification is inherited to underlying nodes.

The zone type “Hazardous material handling” is to be placed on all nodes used in the transport of hazardous material articles:

  • Goods receipt area
  • Staging areas
  • Goods out area

No storage of hazardous materials may take place on these nodes, as the safety regulations cannot be fully complied with.

Reference

COGLAS does not assume any liability for the use of this option. If you have any questions, please ask a contact person immediately!

The classification of articles as hazardous substances is done via the article master data. For more information, see chapter Master data › Articles.

Hazardous material joint storage table

Menu call via “System – Warehouse structure – Hazardous material joint storage table”.

The combined hazardous material joint storage table provides information about which storage classes can be combined with each other within a defined storage area.

The maintenance of the storage class for the article takes place via the master data. For more information, see chapter Master data › Articles.

Notes to Table 2:

No. Reference and details
1 The specific legal storage regulations must be respected:

  • LGK 1 and LGK 4.1 A: 2. SprengV
  • LGK 5.1 C: GefStoffV Annex I Number 5 Ammonium nitrate and TRGS 511
  • LGK 5.2: BGV B 4“Organic peroxides“
    Reference: The regulations for combined storage mentioned here are also to be applied mutatis mutandis to self-decomposing hazardous substances.
  • LGK 7: StrlSchV and DIN 25422
2 Storage together in rooms is only allowed if:

  • A maximum of 50 filled compressed gas containers, including no more than 25 filled compressed gas containers with flammable/flammable,
    oxidizing/fire-promoting or acutely toxic, labeled H331 or toxic gases, are stored and these are
  • are separated by a wall at least 2 m high made of non-combustible building materials and
  • a distance of at least 5 m is maintained between the wall and the combustible materials.
3 Compressed gas containers filled with different gases may be stored together in one storage room under the following conditions:

  • Pressurized gas containers with flammable/ignitable, oxidizing/flammable or acutely toxic gases marked with H331 or toxic gases, if the total number does not exceed 150 pressurized gas containers or 15 pressurized drums. In addition, compressed gas containers with inert gases can be stored in any quantity.
  • Pressurized gas containers with flammable/ignitable and pressurized gas containers with inert gases in any quantity.
  • Pressurized gas containers with oxidizing/fire-promoting gases and pressurized gas containers with inert gases in any quantity.
  • Compressed gas containers with acutely toxic hazardous material of category 1, 2 or 3 / very toxic, toxic and compressed gas containers with inert gases in any quantity.
  • In cases 1 through 3, an additional 15 pressurized gas containers or one pressurized drum containing acutely toxic, labeled H330, or very toxic gases may be stored. Larger quantities of compressed gas containers with acute toxic gases must be stored in a special storage room.
  • A distance of at least 2m must be maintained between compressed gas containers with flammable/ignitable gases and compressed gas containers with oxidizing/flammable gases.
  • There are no restrictions for outdoor storage.
4 Storage together is allowed if:

  • for LGK 3, 5.1B, 6.1A and 6.1B the limitations of Table 3
  • for LGK 4.1B with LGK 6.1A the restrictions of Table 4 are observed.
5 Materials which, by their nature and quantity, are likely to contribute to the start or rapid spread of fires, such as paper, textiles, wood, wood wool, hay, straw, cardboard, combustible packaging fillers, shall not be stored in the storage section unless they form a unit with the portable containers for storage and transportation.
6 Different stored goods may only be stored together with each other or with other materials insofar as this does not result in a significant increase in risk. A significant increase in risk can be avoided by separate storage.
7 Oxidizing / oxidizing hazardous substances may be stored together with flammable stored goods:

  • in storage quantities up to a total of 1 ton without restrictions,
  • in storage quantities exceeding 1 t under the restrictions of the Explanatory Note, No. 4 item 1.

The requirements of note 5 must also be observed

Table 3: Prerequisite for the aggregation of LGK 3, 5.1B, 6.1A and 6.1B

Total quantity Restriction
up to 1 t Without restrictions
up to 20 t in buildings, if:
  • buildings have an automatic fire alarm system,
  • outdoor fire detection and fire alarm through
    • hourly control with reporting options (such as telephone, fire alarm, radio, etc.) is ensured or
    • a demonstrably suitable automatic fire alarm system is in place.

Table 4: Preconditions for a combination of LGK 4.1B with 6.1.A

Total quantity Restriction
up to 10 t Without restrictions
up to 20 t, if:
  • buildings have an automatic fire alarm system,
  • outdoor fire detection and fire alarm through
    • hourly control with reporting options (such as telephone, fire alarm, radio, etc.) is ensured or
    • a demonstrably suitable automatic fire alarm system is in place.
up to 50 t, if:
  • a automatic fire alarm system is in place and
  • the fire department reaches the fire site within ten minutes of being alerted.
up to 100 t, if:
  • an automatic fire extinguishing system or
  • an automatic fire alarm system in conjunction with a non-automatic fire extinguishing system and a recognized site fire department is in place.

Table 2: Hazardous material joint storage table depending on the storage class