Learn about shipping dangerous goods and its procedures, regulations, responsibilities, and best practices.
Course details
Duration: 5 days (40 hours)
Recommended level: Entry-level and Professional
Prerequisites: None
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
Who should attend
- Airline acceptance staff,shippers and freight forwarders
- Cargo training and development specialists
- Ground handling and load control staff involved in the cargo chain
- Regulatory compliance specialists
- Personnel from the Departments of Transportation and Civil Aviation Authorities
- Operations and station managers
Key topics
- Detailed step-by-step explanation of how to use and correctly apply the most current edition of the IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations manual
- 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: UN specifications, limited quantities, compatibility and segregation of packages, overpacks
- 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
Course dates
April 23 - 27, 2012
July 16 - 20, 2012
November 26 - 30, 2012
| Regional fee* | 700 | USD |
| IATA Member fee ** | 1445 | USD |
| IATA Non Member fee | 1700 | USD |
VAT 22% will be added if applicable
*Region: Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Slovakia
** IATA / ICAO / ACI / IGHC Members, IATA Partners, ANS Providers, IATA Airport Advisors
Thanks to airBaltic and its wide route network Riga is easily accessible for every customer. As a part of Air Baltic Corporation we are able to provide most attractive package of possible extra services, including flight, transportation, accommodation and others.
For registration or more information please contact:
Phone: +371 67788368
Mobile: +371 26116606
