About the course
Training in the general provisions for the carriage of dangerous goods by road is a legal requirement for all persons involved in their transport.
This includes manufacturers, transport office staff, packers, loaders, drivers if they do not hold an ADR licence, and all persons involved in the preparation and transport of dangerous goods packed as limited quantities and excepted quantities.
This course will provide you with a general overview of the ADR provisions. The course is entirely online and allows you to work through at your own pace.
Downloadable guidance is included within the course for you to reference back to at a later date, lessons are accompanied by quizzes and complex provisions are clearly explained by video with accompanying examples.
All videos on this course have captions (subtitles) for those who require them.
Course content
- Class 1 (8:33)
- Class 2 introduction
- Class 2: summary of hazards (7:08)
- Class 3 (1:15)
- Class 4 (4.1, 4.2 and 4.3) (6:49)
- Class 5.1 (2:12)
- Class 5.2 (4:39)
- Class 6.1
- Class 6.2
- Class 7 (2:16)
- Class 8
- Class 9 (1:26)
- Environmentally hazardous substances
- Environmentally hazardous substances small package exemption (1:34)
- Lithium batteries (1:40)
- Waste classification
- Summary quiz (0:58)
- Selecting containment for dangerous goods (5:06)
- UN-approved packaging
- Packaging examples (3:04)
- What are the 'limited quantities' provisions? (0:59)
- How to calculate the limited quantities provisions (3:23)
- Packing examples for limited quantities (2:41)
- Limited quantities quiz
- The 'excepted quantities' provisions (5:14)
- Intermediate bulk containers (IBCs)
- Mixed packing (3:23)
- Mixed packing exercise
- Tanks
- Containment section summary (0:44)
- End of section questions
- Identifying dangerous goods (1:36)
- Where to find hazard information
- Package marks and labels
- Package marking and labelling example (2:10)
- Overpacks (2:57)
- Marking and placarding of vehicles and containers
- Marking and placarding of tanks and bulk transport (5:45)
- Section summary (0:48)
- End of section questions
- Information required in the dangerous goods transport document
- Tunnel code exercise
- Supplementing the proper shipping name for NOS entries (2:04)
- Supplementing the dangerous goods description
- Waste: supplementing the proper shipping name (0:53)
- Waste: estimating the quantity (2:44)
- What is not required
- Documentation retention requirements
- Multimodal requirements: sea transport
- Multimodal requirements: air transport
- Section summary (0:44)
- End of section questions
Course notes
98 pages
A downloadable PDF written by our experienced Dangerous Goods Safety Advisers.
Packed full of clear explanations, experience, figures and tables to help put your learning into practice and reference back to once you've passed the course.
Additional information
This training is also designed to fulfil the theoretical requirements of the function-specific and safety training, as detailed in ADR Chapter 1.3, for common roles such as packers, loaders, unloaders and consignors. We also have more detailed function-specific courses available to compliment our awareness training for job roles such as packers and consignors.
However, because all operations are different, we can not verify the competency of employees, which we recommend should be monitored or verified by the employer.
Upon completion of the course, your certificate will be automatically generated and available for you to download straight away.
We have more specific courses available for certain types of dangerous goods, such as explosives and lithium batteries, which may be more suitable than this course. Please contact us if you wish to check.
The course price is £76.00 per user excluding VAT.
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