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Treat DD Form 2357 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 2357, Hazardous Component Safety Data Statement (HCSDS), April 1999.. Function: Hazardous Component Safety Data Statement (HCSDS). Because the number carries DD rather than a service prefix, the same edition covers all military departments and the defense agencies at once. Nobody issues a Navy copy or an Air Force copy.
Authority: not stated prescribes it, not stated maintains it. Those two names settle most disputes about why the form is being asked for. Local commands add timing on top; the requirement itself comes from above them.
Use not stated, status not stated. Older printings circulate widely and lose their currency Department-wide the moment a new edition issues.
Available: PDF, across 1 pages, roughly 35 fields. That is the whole scope of the download decision.
Default to fillable pdf, print only when you must. The fillable file stores what you type; the printable file is a blank picture. A Department form often travels further than a service form — scanned, emailed, forwarded to an agency that never saw the original — and typed text is what survives that.
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What the form asks for
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- 1. Date prepared (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 2. Material/component/assembly.
- 3. Number.
- 4. Revision.
- 5. Applicable federal acquisition regulation (F A R) safety clause.
- Part 1 - Sensitivity (apparatus and comparison values). 6. Friction test.
- 7. Impact test.
- 8. Electrostatic discharge test.
- Part 1 - Hazards. 9. Fire.
- 10. Auto ignition temperature.
- 11. Flash point.
- 12. Decomposition products.
- 13. Flammable and or explosive limits. a. Lower percent.
- 13.b. Upper percent.
- 14. Explosion.
- 15. Explosive temperature (5 sec.).
- 16. Dusts.
- 17. Health hazard information (toxicity).
- 18. Unpacked (in process) hazard class (specify quantities involved).
- 19. Special requirements (if additional space is needed, use plain bond paper).
- Part 3 - Shipping/Storage Classification of Item when Packed in Accordance with Approved Packing Drawings. 20. DoD Hazard Class/Division.
- 21. D O D storage compatibility group.
- 22. D O T hazard classification.
Start by matching the printed date to not stated. Old blanks accumulate in shared folders for years. Because the Department reissues to all services in one action, nobody is still accepting the previous layout by local custom.
For anything ambiguous in a specific field, the form's own instructions come first and not stated controls where the two differ.
Send it as not stated or local guidance specifies. Save a copy. Cross-service and cross-agency routing is normal for Department forms, and a lost original outside your own organization is harder to chase down.
Look up cross-referenced forms by series and number. DD numbering is unified across the Department, which removes the usual step of identifying which service issued the thing.
Where a procedure cites both a service form and a DD form, the two are unconnected. Service numbering answers to a service proponent, DD numbering to not stated or another Department office, and the two sequences were never aligned. Matching numbers mean nothing whatever.
Three drivers of revision: directive reissue, altered collection requirements, updated statutory notice text. No notification accompanies any of them, so download fresh and confirm not stated rather than reusing an archived file.
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Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2357?
- DD Form 2357, Hazardous Component Safety Data Statement (HCSDS), April 1999.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?