Shorts SD-360
Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Commercial
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 200; Flight Crew Total 1600; Flight Crew Type 1300
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Hazardous Material Violation; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
General None Reported / Taken
Human Factors; Chart Or Publication
To do my job as Captain I must inspect and declare my Hazmat to my Dispatcher. Before my flight I filled out a Hazmat form given to me by my company to declare Hazmat. On this form I am obligated to declare how many boxes; contents; how much of each Hazmat; hazard class; their location in the airplane and various other Hazmat information. Nowhere on my company given form is there a space for the packing group of each Hazmat. When I called in to my Dispatcher on the phone to let them know all the information I had written on the form the Dispatcher told me that I was released for flight. Upon landing at my destination I was ramp checked by an FAA Hazmat inspector. She informed me that it was odd that my packing groups were not declared. I told her the truth that I did not tell my Dispatcher the packing group information on the Hazmat and that I only told the Dispatcher what was on my form. She asked me how the Dispatcher could get this information and I told her that I regularly mail in each individual Hazmat slip that contains all the Hazmat information for each individual box including packing groups. It is company policy to mail these slips and forms in and I follow our policies. After this encounter I went to my company FOM and found nothing pertaining to declaring packing groups on our FOM page describing how to fill out our Hazmat forms.
SH-360 Captain reported FAA ramp check upon arrival that cited missing 'packing group' on Hazmat company form that submitted prior to receiving flight release.