Commercial Fixed Wing
Maintenance Airframe; Maintenance Powerplant
Other / Unknown
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Hazardous Material Violation; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR
General None Reported / Taken
Company Policy; Human Factors; Procedure
ZZZ slide shop received 4 slides that were removed from Aircraft X. These slides had been deployed; then they were put in large plastic bags three of them were shipped in a wooden box and the fourth in a cardboard box with no lid. All of the reservoirs were empty but the survival kits contain signaling flares which should have been shipped as hazardous. Explosion proof boxes were provided for the return shipping to shop but were not used.
Air carrier ground personnel reported Hazmat cargo shipped in wrong container.