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Section C: WARNING DANGER LABELS FOR HARZARDOUS SUBSTANCES

In many countries, vehicles carrying dangerous goods are required by law to display hazard information panels

The codes in the boxes give important information about:
  • The equipment needed to deal with any spillage of fire
  • The chemical being carried
  • The telephone number in an emergency situation
If you have an accident with a vehicle carrying a dangerous load, make sure the emergency services know what the load is and its code numbers, if given.

Diamond Symbols Indicating Other Risks Are Shown Below:
Danger labels 1

Diamond Symbols Indicating Other Risks Are Shown Below

Diamond symbols

Explanation of Symbols

The danger labels prescribed for substances and articles have the following meaning

No. 1 Black bomb on orange back ground): Liable to explosions

No. 2.1 Black flame on red back ground; Danger of flammable gas

No. 2.3 Skill and crossbar on the white background: danger of TOXIC GAS

No. 3.0 (Black fame on a red background): danger of the inflammable Liquids):

No. 4.1 (Black flame on ground of equidistant alternate and white vertical stripes) danger of fire (inflammable solids)

No. 4.3 (Black flame on blue back ground) danger of emission of inflammable gases on contact with water

No. 5.1 and 5.2 (Flame over a blank circle, blank on yellow back ground): oxide substances or organic peroxide

No. 4.0 (st Andrew's cross on ear corn black on white back ground): harmful substances. to be kept apart from foodstuffs in vehicles and at loading, unloading or Trans load points

No. 8.0 (Liquid dripping from test-tube on to hand. Black on white back ground lower triangle with black label, white boarder: corrosive substance).

No. 6.0 (Crystalized trefoil inscription RADIOACTIVE, contain radioactive substances
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Nigeria Highway Code, 2015-2023