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DD Form 2357 — a Department of Defense document. Title of record: DD Form 2357, Hazardous Component Safety Data Statement (HCSDS), April 1999.. Stated purpose: Hazardous Component Safety Data Statement (HCSDS). Edition date not stated; status not stated.
Governing directive: not stated. Responsible office: not stated. The DD designation signals joint scope — all military departments, combatant commands and defense agencies draw on a single edition of the document.
Users include uniformed members of any branch, DoD civilian employees, contractor personnel where authorized, and the administrative staff who process the completed record.
Submission follows the schedule set by not stated and by local implementing procedures. This page provides the blank form for download and general orientation only.
The download set covers PDF. Document length is 1 pages with about 35 entry fields.
Distribution centres on pdf. Two states exist: fillable, where field boxes accept keyboard input and retain it, and printable, a static blank produced for manual completion. Typed data reproduces cleanly across copies; handwritten data depends on the writer.
What the form asks for
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
- 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.
The document is filled from the top down. Identification precedes substance, substance precedes certification. Fields lower on the page are commonly keyed to entries made above them.
The current edition is not stated. Superseded editions of DD forms are frequently rejected at the receiving office, since Department-wide forms change centrally and older layouts lose their field correspondence. Edition date appears in the lower corner of the printed blank.
Certification requires a signature in the designated block — ink on paper, or a digital signature where the receiving office supports one. Typing a name into the field does not constitute execution. CAC-based signing is the usual digital method for Defense forms.
Privacy Act Statements accompany DoD forms that gather personal identifiers. Content of the statement: legal authority, principal purpose, routine uses, and the effect of declining to provide the information. It is printed on the form for that reason.
Recurring errors: entry on a superseded edition, blanks left in mandatory fields, illegible handwriting on scanned copies, dates in a format other than the one the form specifies, missing signature or missing date beside the signature.
Instructions printed on the form or in not stated govern individual field entries. Where the two differ, the governing publication controls.
The completed document moves to the office named in not stated or in local guidance. A retained copy is conventional practice.
Related documents are located by series and number. DD forms sit in a single Department-wide sequence, so a form referenced inside DD Form 2357 is normally found by its number alone, without regard to service.
Some procedures pair a DD form with a service form. The two numbering systems are separate — service forms answer to a service proponent, DD forms to not stated or another Department office — and a matching number in each system means nothing.
Revision occurs when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the data collected changes, or when statutory notice language is amended. Verification of the edition date at download addresses all three.
Scope of this page: distribution of a published form and description of its contents. It offers no legal guidance and no assurance regarding any particular submission. Direct procedural questions to not stated, to the servicing personnel office, or to the office designated in not stated.
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?