Dangerous Goods Regulations Category 12

COURSE DURATION: 2 Days Initial, Refresher 6 Hours

COURSE DEPLOYMENT: Classroom

TARGET GROUP: Screening Personnel

COURSE AIM: The aim of this course is to provide participants with skills and knowledge on how to deal with the screening of passengers and crew and their baggage and cargo or mail, e.g., security screeners, their supervisors and staff involved in implementing security procedures.

COURSE OBJECTIVES – UPON COMPLETION OF THIS COURSE, PARTICIPANTS WILL BE ABLE TO:

• Identify and classify dangerous goods
• Recognize dangerous goods labels and package specification markings
• Detect hidden dangerous goods in baggage
• Understand provisions for dangerous goods in the baggage of passengers and crew
• Follow basic dangerous goods emergency response procedures.

PASS MARK: 80%

MINIMUM NUMBER OF ATTENDEES: 12

AMOUNT: (PER LEARNER; PER DAY): Initial: R675.60 (Excl.Vat) Refresher: R33.80 (Excl. Vat)

MODULE 1 : APPLICABILITY

• Define Dangerous Goods
• Origin of regulations
• General Philosophy
• Shippers Responsibility
• Operators Responsibility
• Information to passengers

MODULE 2 : LIMITATIONS

• Define limitations
• Forbidden Dangerous Goods
• Recognition of Hidden Hazards
• Provision For Passengers and Crew
• State Variations
• Operator Variations

MODULE 3 : CLASSIFICATION

• Define Classification
• Identify the classes of dangerous goods

MODULE 4 : MARKING AND LABELLING

• Define markings
• Identify types of markings
• Identify hazard labels for 9 classes
• Identify Handling Labels

MODULE 5 : DANGEROUS GOODS EMERGENCY RESPONSE

• Describe dangerous emergency
• Explain the responses based on characteristics of dangerous goods
• Reporting Incidents/Accidents