We Are Access Equipment | How to Transport Your Battery

Globalised or not, the economy of human society has always been based on trade and exchange. And both of these pillars are based on the mobility of goods and objects. Today, that mobility is called transport.

We are all familiar with the various means of transport that technology has made available to us: by road, sea, rail or air. Whether it is the increase in the complexity of goods, the increase in the level of danger of some of them (in the 1800s, for example, radioactive materials were not transported, but explosives were), or the countless accidents that have occurred (even fatal ones), today we have a large set of rules and guidelines to ensure the safe transport of any goods in any situation, in any eventuality (including accidents). No commodity is an exception, no raw material or human artefact is excluded from these regulations. And batteries are no exception.

Cases of batteries overheating, catching fire or exploding have made the headlines, especially when the technology behind today’s lithium batteries was in its early days. Today, such cases are very rare, and those few are often related to human factors, but one should not believe that batteries are harmless objects. And in this regard, it is necessary that in their design, production and transport, precise rules, procedures and indications are followed. We are going to analyse  these rules together with Flash Battery, manufacturer of lithium batteries for the industrial sector.