Hazchem supporting new National Dangerous Goods Awareness Day 11/07/24
The Hazchem Network are backing the new initiative from the British association of dangerous goods professionals (BADGP) who are running a National Dangerous Goods Awareness Day on the Thursday 11th July 2024. www.dgawarenessday.com
The National Dangerous Goods Awareness Day is provided to address some key points that are evident within businesses and industries within the UK. Those key points identify that when it comes to being compliant to the dangerous goods rules and regulations a UK business or industry falls into one of the following four categories:
• Fully compliant
• Partially compliant
• Non-compliant to said rules and regulations
• Knows that there are rules and regulations but chooses to ignore them as there is very little chance of getting caught
Instead of tut-tutting and wagging fingers this National Dangerous Goods Awareness Day aims to inform and guide businesses into why there are the rules and regulations in the first place and how you can spread the essential knowledge and skills that everyone needs to keep their staff and the transport chain free from the significant effects that transporting such dangerous goods present.
There are four main transport codes and regulations for dangerous goods that the new initiative will aim to help with, they are –
Road – referred to in Europe as ADR
Air – referred to in the world as ICAO and IATA
Sea – referred to in the world as IMDG
Rail – referred to in Europe as RID
Each code requires the appointment of a competent person to deal with the dangerous goods arrangements and in the case of Road and Rail that competent person is a qualified Dangerous Goods Safety Adviser (DGSA).
All transport codes require any business that offers for carriage (known as a consignor) or transports dangerous goods (known as a carrier) to train their staff in either a general awareness or function-specific capacity. The National Dangerous Goods Awareness Day will assist you with this requirement as we provide you with free to download posters and toolbox talks that address some of the general awareness training. Two introductory films also provide an initial insight into the two of the guiding principles of dangerous goods transport.
The BADGP will be hosting a webinar on Thursday 11th July between 13:00 – 14:30 BST that will be hosted by BADGP Chair Mark Spence and Rosalind Wall and Elizabeth Shovelton from the Department for Transport.
This webinar is open to BADGP members and non-members alike and will cover –
>A review of the Los Alfaques disaster on July 11th 1978 with lessons learned and the impact it had on Dangerous Goods regulations.
>Raising awareness of moving Dangerous Goods safely and the requirement to have a DGSA
>Common misconceptions about Dangerous Goods
>Common substances/articles that actually are Dangerous Goods
>Q & A session
More information & registration, please visit: https://lnkd.in/eBN42fkZ
BADGP has designed 11 posters and accompanying Toolbox Talks for you to use in your business to countdown to the first ever National Dangerous Goods Awareness Day.
Each poster will be downloadable from the www.dgawarenessday.com website on each day from the 1st July 2024 until the webinar on the 11th July.
Take advantage of this free resource that will inform and instruct your work colleagues about the risk controls that need to be applied to prevent the dangers from dangerous goods.
You can find all the free resources and much more on dangerous goods at www.dgawarenessday.com
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