Explosives guidelines and standards
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Explore guidelines and standards to help you manage explosives effectively and safely.
- Authorization
- Manufacturing
- Buying, selling and storing
- Screening
- Transporting
- Special Purpose Explosives
- Fireworks use
- Restricted Components
Authorization
- G03-01: Type E high explosives (HTML)
- G03-02: Guidelines for authorization of cartridges (PDF, 112 kb)
- G03-03: Guidelines for authorization of consumer and display fireworks (PDF, 293 kb)
- G03-04: Guidelines for authorization of pyrotechnic special effects (HTML
- G03-07: General standard for the authorization and classification of explosives (HTML)
Manufacturing
- G05-01: Guidelines for bulk explosives facilities (PDF, 949 kb)
- G05-02: Requirements for bulk mobile process units (PDF, 374 kb)
- G05-04: Security plan guideline (HTML)
- G05-05: Potential effects classification (PDF, 132.77 kb)
- G05-06: Pumping of water-based explosives (Contact the Explosives Regulatory Division [ERD] to get a copy.)
- G05-07: Guidelines for jet perforating gun assembly facilities (PDF, 195.16 kb)
- G05-09: Guidelines for picking and assembly for display fireworks (PDF, 321.23kb)
- G05-25: Sample security plan (Contact the ERD to get a copy.)
Buying, selling and storing
- G06-01: Non-industrial storage guideline, 2015 (PDF, 311 kb)
- Storage of industrial explosives — standard of the Bureau de normalisation du Québec (link to the website of the Bureau)
- G06-05: Guideline for determining the storage compatibility of explosives (PDF, 196 kb)
- G06-06: Key control plan guideline (PDF, 74 kb)
- G06-07: Fire safety plan guideline (PDF, 71.9 kb)
- Explosives — quantity distances — standard of the Bureau de normalisation du Québec (link to the website of the Bureau)
Screening
Transporting
- G09-01: Guideline for Transporting detonators with other explosives (PDF, 40 kb)
- G09-02: Guidelines for quantified risk assessments at ports and wharves (PDF, 169 kb)
Special purpose explosives
Fireworks and pyrotechnics use
- G17-01: Special effect pyrotechnics manual (PDF, 765 Mb)
- G18-01: Display fireworks manual (HTML)
Restricted components
- G20-05: Guidelines for Tier 1 restricted component sellers (PDF, 870 kb)
- G20-06: Guidelines for Tier 2 restricted component sellers (PDF, 819 Kb)
- G20-07: Guidelines for Tier 3 restricted component sellers (PDF, 510 Kb)
- G20-04: Guidelines for recognizing and reporting suspicious transactions of explosives precursor chemicals (PDF, 454 Kb)
- G20-03: Guide for enrolments for restricted component sellers - eLMS (PDF, 4 Mb)
- G20-01: Tier 1 restricted components security and key control guideline (PDF, 730 Kb)
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