Governing Regulations
What are the governing regulations?
The standards detailed in 49 CFR 173.140 identify Class 9 materials as those with the potential to impair the flight crews' ability to perform their duties safely. Shipping dry ice, lithium batteries, or any other Class 9 substance is governed by the IATA Class 9 Dangerous Goods Regulations. This online certification course satisfies all air carrier requirements for proof of IATA 9 training, including FedEx and UPS.
If you are also shipping other classes of dangerous goods you must take our full IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations training course in place of this one.
If you do not have a copy, you should consider purchasing the IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations (DGR) Manual both for reference purposes in your day to day shipping operations, and while taking this course. Specific guides are also available for Battery Shipping Regulations and other topics.
You can access the IATA DGR Current Edition Significant Changes document from our "Resources" section.
