B737 first officer reported dispatch notification during cruise of hazmat material on board.

Attributes
ACN	1636656
Time
Date	201904
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B737-700
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Parked
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 486 Flight Crew Type 4286
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Procedural Hazardous Material Violation

Narrative:

Ground ops forgot to give us the hazmat paperwork for a slide we were carrying in cargo bin D. Dispatch informed us of the slide we were carrying while we were at cruise.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: B737 First Officer reported Dispatch notification during cruise of Hazmat material on board.

Narrative: Ground Ops forgot to give us the HAZMAT paperwork for a slide we were carrying in cargo bin D. Dispatch informed us of the slide we were carrying while we were at cruise.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.