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DFARS 252.223-7001 Hazard Warning Labels

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

No

The clause contains no flow-down paragraph. Primes include it in hazardous material subcontracts because labeling needs to arrive done from whoever manufactures and packs — the sub — and the prime doesn't want to repackage.

A clause can reach your subcontract without a mandate. Once it is in your document, it is a contract term all the same. The missing mandate is a fact about the regulation. It is not a ruling on your order.

Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-11 · edition DEC 1991 · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗

What it makes you produce

3 items for your checklist, slowest first.

  1. Something you write2

    Days to weeks, and nobody outside your company has to agree to it.

    • A hazard warning label on the unit container of every hazardous item shipped, in the form the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard sets at 29 CFR 1910.1200

      DFARS 252.223-7001(b)
    • A copy of the hazard warning label itself, sent before award with the safety data sheet

      Owed by the apparently successful offeror, for every hazardous material not listed at (c)

      DFARS 252.223-7001(d)

  2. Something you fill in and send back

    Hours, once you know which one is missing.

    • The list, filled in at offer, of which hazardous materials will instead be labeled under the pesticide, food and drug, consumer product, hazardous substances or alcohol statutes

      DFARS 252.223-7001(c)

When it is used

Accompanies the hazardous material identification requirement (the text references the Hazardous Material Identification and Material Safety Data clause — FAR 52.223-3): it comes in when the contract requires delivery of hazardous material data/data sheets. It has no flow-down requirement.

Read closely

Anything left off the (c) list is read as labeled to the OSHA standard, so an empty table is an answer rather than a blank. (e) adds marking for shipment and storage under MIL-STD-129, including revisions issued during the contract, and (a) borrows the definition of hazardous material from the identification and safety data clause the contract carries alongside.

The 12 templates that name it, with the line
76CORPDOC 2A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Commercial Products/Services under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 263143CORPDOC 3A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Fixed Price Non-Commercial Items under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 371155CORPDOC 4A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 407233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 141560Raytheon TC-003 — Supplement 2: Government Contract Provisions from the DFARSRTXline 76166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2436166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2375168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2466255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 1271243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 2180240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 2393273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 1143

Source: acquisition.gov, DFARS 252.223-7001. CODIFIED REGIME, read 2026-08-11 on the part-252 page at DFARS Change 5/7/2026: "As prescribed in 223.304, use the following clause:" with designation (DEC 1991). RFO CLASS DEVIATION 2026-O0018 (DFARS part 223, effective February 1, 2026) CARRIES THIS CLAUSE AT THE SAME NUMBER: the memo prescribes it at 223.304 and prints it (DEC 1991). So the two regimes AGREE here on number, prescription and designation, and an agreement read is recorded because the alternative is silence that a reader cannot tell from an unread deviation. TO RE-DERIVE THE DEVIATION HALF WITHOUT REDOING THE RESEARCH: fetch acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-23.pdf (593744 bytes, 22 pages, DARS Tracking Number 2026-O0018, "Effective February 1, 2026, contracting officers shall use"), run pdftotext -layout over it, and grep for 252.223-7001 — 2 occurrences on 2026-08-11, poppler pdftotext. Both regimes read against their primary sources on 2026-08-11, and the deviation half re-read a second time and the recipe above measured on 2026-08-11 (verified 2026-08-11)

This is research, not legal advice. It states what the regulation says about this clause and cites the paragraph behind it. It does not rule on your order, and it does not rule on whether a prime's markings are correct.