What you will learn
Upon completing this course you will have the skills to:
- Prepare and process dangerous goods shipments
- Understand legal requirements, operational restrictions, and governing entities
- Champion dangerous goods compliance standards in your organization
- Identify weak links in your handling procedures
- Examine safety issues and apply them approprately in the workplace
Key topics
- Operator and shipper's responsibilities
- Limitations: excepted and limited quantities, State and operator's variations
- Classification and identification: the nine hazard classes with their main criteria, the alphabetic list and precedence of hazards table, special provisions, Not Otherwise Specified (N.O.S) entries, mixtures and solutions
- Packaging, marking and labeling requirements : Limited quantities, compatibility and segregation of packages, over packs
- Shipment of radioactive materials
- Procedures: loading, storage and inspection, emergency procedures
- Tools to help you and your organization on the safe handling of Dangerous Goods
- Identification, classification, proper packaging, marking, labeling and documentation requirements (Air Waybill and Shipper's Declaration)
- Emergency loading and unloading procedures, segregation, storage and handling
