Patent ID: 8224758

Claim:
A system for managing the transportation of dangerous materials comprising: a database for storing master data for a set of materials, the materials having regulations applicable to the transportation of the materials, wherein the master data includes: an identifier of at least one exception that defines a modification to one of the regulations, a version of the at least one exception, a description of the at least one exception, a duration of the validity of the at least one exception, and a flag indicating that an assignment of the at least one exception to the one of the regulations is locked, the flag being deactivatable by an authorized user to unlock the assignment of the at least one exception to the one of the regulations; a user interface for selecting a sub-set of the set of materials to be transported; a processor for checking compliance of one or more conditions of the transportation of the sub-set of the set of materials with the regulations that are assigned to the materials of the sub-set; and a document generator that, after the one or more conditions of the transportation of the sub-set of the set of materials are determined to be compliant with the regulations that are assigned to the materials of the sub-set, is invoked to generate a transportation document including the description of the at least one exception, wherein the transportation document is attachable to a handling unit including the sub-set of the set of materials.