Course Description:
Department of Transportation (DOT) Compliance Hazardous Materials Transportation course meets training requirements for hazardous materials (hazmat) workers.
Participants will receive a Handling Hazardous Materials book, Emergency Response Guidebook and certificate of completion.
Course Includes:
- Purpose, scope, and applicability of the DOT regulations
- Identifying hazmat according to DOT criteria
- Identifying packaging conditions which are acceptable for handling and transportation
- Marking requirements for a packaged, non-bulk, non-radioactive hazmat
- Primary/subsidiary hazard labels to given packages of hazmat
- Documentation requirements for describing hazmat on shipping papers
- Hazardous materials placarding requirements
Who:
Hazmat workers including:
- Owner-operators of a motor vehicle which transports hazmat
Any person (including a self-employed person) who:
- loads, unloads, or handles hazmat
- tests, reconditions, repairs, modifies, marks, or otherwise represents packaging as qualified for use in the transportation of hazmat
- prepares hazmat for transportation
- is responsible for safety of transporting hazmat
- operates a vehicle used to transport hazmat
Cost
Member: $229
Non-member: $328
Duration
8 Hours
Location
National Safety Council, Nebraska
11620 M Circle, Omaha, NE
Schedule
January, May, August, November