6 Additional fire precautions
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6 Additional fire precautions

  6.1 No source of ignition should be brought into or near to a place where explosives are being handled. The wearing of shoes or boots with unprotected metal nails, heels or tips of any kind should be prohibited, except where the consignment consists only of articles of class 1, and care taken to ensure that any portable lights and other electrical equipment are of a type safe for use in a flammable atmosphere.

Parent topic: Annex 2 - Transport and Handling of Explosives of Class 1 (3.3.2.4, 7.1.15.4)
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