Industrial packaging is used for shipping low specific activity materials and surface contaminated objects.

Low specific activity (LSA) materials are generally materials in which radioactivity is essentially uniformly distributed in a large amount of nonradioactive material. LSA materials include uranium ore concentrate; low-level waste from hospitals, laboratories, and power plants such as contaminated protective clothing; and trash and building rubble from cleanup projects.

Surface Contaminated Objects (SCO) are nonradioactive items with surfaces slightly contaminated with radioactive materials. SCO include pieces of equipment used in nuclear power plants that are very slightly contaminated on the surface.