Course Modules

The ADR awareness 1-day course will include:

• Why ADR awareness is important and who does it apply to
• Health and Safety brief

Identification of classes

• Understanding what labels are for what classes. Also being able to identify what type of dangerous good is what class
• This can also include the fire triangle and how that is important to understand.

Emergency procedures/PPE/ Basic first-aid & fire extinguishing

• This can be from how to treat someone with burns, to how to operate a fire extinguisher and what equipment is needed in the building to help prevent the spread of a dangerous good becoming hazardous to individuals.

Load threshold and limited quantities

• What these are identified as and why they are important
  • Instances if the load threshold is exceeded
• Understanding how certain products mixed together could become dangerous/harmful to the environment/others
  • This will show common household products that, when combined, can cause corrosiveness, explosion, toxic gas etc.
  • Could also reference HSE classifications, which details how medicines and cosmetics tend to have small quantities of dangerous goods.

Storage & segregation rules

• See HSE- Segregation of hazardous materials
• Also relating to the 800ml / 80cm legal requirement between pallets.
  • Difference of palette sizes- (A euro palette is 800mm wide, whereas a UK palette us 1000mm wide)
• Understanding the importance of properly packed and labelled dangerous goods

This ADR Awareness 2-day training will encapsulate everything in the 1-day awareness training and then include:

The responsibilities of the individual who is working with dangerous goods underneath the ADR limit

• How the below threshold can still be a danger- also depending on the class being transported below the threshold.

What to do in the event of a dangerous good package being damaged

• Primarily for those receiving packages, such as when to refuse a package
• This could be from cartons, to drums and cylinders
• Also considering spillages, environmental problems that could be a factor
• Packages for certain types of dangerous goods (vapours, liquids etc)

Enforcement of dangerous goods regulations for transport by road

• How to avoid the risk of penalties and comply with the legal framework

Risk assessments

• Reference to HSE-Risk assessments
• This can also include understanding forms and documents in relation to the dangerous good and how it should be filled out (also including what to do in the event of the forms being completed incorrectly)

Where to find information on hazards regarding dangerous goods

• Giving the students a list of resources to fall back to if they are ever unsure about the situation regarding a hazard in the work place.

The end of the training will result in a test given to the students, who upon completion, if passed, will receive a certificate of competence to show that they have recognised the training and can implement their learning when needed.