CHAPTER 8.3 MISCELLANEOUS REQUIREMENTS TO BE COMPLIED WITH BY THE VEHICLE CREW

8.3.1 Passengers

Apart from members of the vehicle crew, no passengers may be carried in transport units carrying dangerous goods.


8.3.2 Use of fire-fighting appliances

Members of the vehicle crew shall know how to use the fire-fighting appliances. 


8.3.3 Prohibition on opening packages

A driver or a driver's assistant may not open a package containing dangerous goods. 


8.3.4 Portable lighting apparatus

The portable lighting apparatus used shall not exhibit any metal surface liable to produce sparks.


8.3.5 Prohibition on smoking

Smoking shall be prohibited during handling operations in the vicinity of vehicles and inside the vehicles. This prohibition of smoking is also applicable to the use of electronic cigarettes and similar devices.


8.3.6 Running the engine during loading or unloading 

Except where the engine has to be used to drive the pumps or other appliances for loading or unloading the vehicle and the laws of the country in which the vehicle is operating permit such use, the engine shall be shut off during loading and unloading operations.


8.3.7 Use of the parking brakes and wheel chocks 

No vehicles carrying dangerous goods may be parked without the parking brakes being applied. Trailers without braking devices shall be restrained from moving by applying at least one wheel chock as described in 8.1.5.2.


8.3.8 Use of cables

In the case of a transport unit equipped with an anti-lock braking system, consisting of a motor vehicle and a trailer with a maximum mass exceeding 3.5 tonnes, the connections referred to in sub-section 9.2.2.6 shall be connecting the towing vehicle and the trailer at all times during carriage.