Dangerous Goods
The National Road Traffic Act (NRTA) mandates specialized training for all employees involved in loading, transporting, or unloading dangerous goods and substances above the exempt quantity. This training is crucial for roles such as Transport Managers, Supervisors, Forklift Drivers, and Qualified Persons to ensure they have the necessary knowledge and skills to minimize risks.
The program covers various aspects, including the identification and classification of dangerous goods, correct handling and storage, preparing goods for transportation, and responding to accidents and spills, ensuring compliance with both national and international statutory requirements.
Convey Dangerous goods by Road
The National Road Traffic Act (NRTA) mandates that all employees involved in loading, transporting, or unloading dangerous goods and substances above the exempt quantity must receive specialized training. This requirement applies to various roles, including Transport Managers, Supervisors, Forklift Drivers, Qualified Persons for loading and offloading, and Drivers. The goal is to ensure that all personnel have the necessary knowledge and skills to minimize risks associated with these tasks.
Controlling hazardous/dangerous and dangerous goods
This program will allow a learner to handle and store hazardous goods safely, complying with both national and international statutory requirements in any freight handling environment.
Learning Objectives:
- identify and classify dangerous goods by the documentation, packing, and labelling
- correctly handle and store classified goods and substances during warehousing and storage
- prepare the dangerous goods for transportation
Handle dangerous goods during warehousing and storage
This program is designed to assist learners to handle dangerous goods during warehousing and storage. They can classify goods in preparation for storage and prepare these goods for safe transportation including handling incidents in the event of them happening under required safety procedures and guidelines.
Learning objectives:
- Identifying and classifying dangerous goods by documentation, packaging and labeling.
- Handling and storing classified goods and substances.
- Preparing the dangerous goods for transportation.
Respond to and Clean Up a Spill
This program will allow a learner to identify and assess the risk of a potential spill, confine a spill should it happen, and evaluate the incident to ensure a correct, safe cleanup.
Learning Objectives;
- Identifying and assessing the risk.
- Confining a spill.
- Evaluating the incident and implementing clean-up.
Dangerous Goods Vehicle Compliance
Transporting dangerous goods by road carries significant risks, starting from loading to unloading. To mitigate these risks for transporters, road users, the public, and the environment, the Department of Transport has implemented specific legislation which includes Vehicles transporting dangerous goods in quantities exceeding exempt limits must display correct placards. Give us a call for all your placarding and signage requirements