General Awareness

These courses are intended to fulfill the general awareness and security awareness training requirements for hazmat / dangerous goods employees responsible for the handling, shipping or transportation of hazardous materials (HM/hazmat) / dangerous goods (DG).

General Awareness (49 CFR) 2023

Hazardous Materials Transportation – General Awareness and Security Awareness 2023 (49 CFR)

The Hazardous Materials/Dangerous Goods General Awareness and Security Awareness Training Program is a professional, technically proven training program developed by the professionals at Currie Associates. This all-inclusive DOT training curriculum provides everything needed to meet DOT requirements for General Awareness and Security Awareness Training (49 CFR §172.704) while maintaining the interest of your trainees.

The DOT general awareness training program is a high-quality medium that ensures coverage of all the significant compliance requirements. Training examples and test questions will help facilitate understanding of hazardous materials transport requirements and will satisfy the general awareness and security awareness training qualification as required by the DOT.

 

Learning Objective(s)

  •  Ensuring hazmat employees are familiar with the requirements of the Hazardous Materials Regulations (49 CFR) and can recognize and identify hazardous materials.
  • Familiarity of security awareness requirements and your role in hazardous materials security.

 

Topic areas covered in the training include:

  • Recognizing Hazardous Materials
  • Protective Packaging
  • Hazard Communication: marking, labels, placards
  • Documentation
  • Loading & Segregation
  • Freight Securement
  • Handling/Accident Prevention
  • Emergency Response
  • Hazmat Transportation Security Awareness

 

Target Audience

Hazmat employees with job responsibilities for shipping, logistics, management, and freight forwarders who prepare, handle, ship, or transport hazardous materials by ground to, from or within the US. This may include but are not limited to the following:

  • warehouse staff that are packaging hazardous materials,
  • office staff that are shipping hazardous materials;
  • pick/packers,
  • logistics staff marking, labeling packages
  • employees preparing hazmat shipping documents or validating/signing shipping documents;
  • staff providing placards;
  • supervisors with hazmat transportation compliance responsibilities
  • customer service staff or procurement staff that are addressing customers’ returns of hazmat.

 

Regulatory Texts & References Required

  • None

 

Recommended Resources

 

Pre-requisites

  • None required

 

Course Features

  • $95 per license
  • Run Time: 0h45
  • Language: English
  • Includes final assessment to validate student’s understanding of material
  • Training certificate will be issued upon successful completion of course
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General Awareness (Multimodal) 2023 – English

Hazardous Materials / Dangerous Goods Transportation – General Awareness and Security Awareness by All Modes (49 CFR, Canadian TDGR, ADR 2023, Mexican NOMs, IMDG Code Amd. 41-22, and ICAO / IATA Edition 65)

This course is intended to fulfill the Department of Transportation (DOT) multimodal general awareness and security awareness training requirements for employees responsible for the handling, preparing, shipping or transportation of hazardous materials/dangerous goods (DG). This course is designed to familiarize employees with the requirements of the US Hazardous Materials Regulations (49 CFR), Transport Canada Transport of Dangerous Goods Regulations (TDGR), ADR, Mexican NOMs, modal transport regulations of the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code (IMDG Code) for ocean transport and the International Air Transport Association Dangerous Goods Regulations (IATA DGR) for air, as well as enabling them to recognize and identify DG.

This course meets the regulatory training requirements set out in 49 CFR, Part 172, Subpart H, for all hazmat employees involved in the safe transportation of hazardous materials and includes recent amendments and interpretations.

 

Learning Objective(s)

  • Ensuring DG employees are familiar with the dangerous goods transport requirements of 49 CFR, TDGR, ADR, NOMs, IMDG Code and IATA DGR and can recognize and identify dangerous goods.
  • Familiarity of security awareness requirements and your role in hazardous materials security.

Target Audience

  • Employees with job responsibilities for preparing shipments of dangerous goods, shipping, logistics, management, and freight forwarders who handle, ship or transport dangerous goods internationally. This may include but are not limited to the following:
    • warehouse staff that are packaging hazardous materials,
    • office staff that are shipping dangerous goods,
    • pick/packers,
    • logistics staff loading or unloading dangerous goods
    • employees preparing hazmat shipping documents or validating/signing shipping documents
    • staff providing placards
    • supervisors with hazmat transportation compliance responsibilities
    • customer service staff or procurement staff that are addressing customers’ returns of hazmat.

Topics 

  • Recognizing dangerous goods using examples of packagings, marks, labels, placards and DG shipping documents
  • Handling DG and accident prevention
  • Understanding the concept of emergency response
  • Dangerous goods transportation security awareness

 

Regulatory Texts & References Required

  • None

 

Recommended References

 

Pre-requisites

  • None required

 

Course Features

  • $125 per license 
  • Run Time: 1h30
  • Language: English
  • Includes final assessment to validate student’s understanding of material
  • Training certificate will be issued upon successful completion of course. Currie Associates training course certificates do not meet the requirements for a CNS endorsement application and will not reflect IATA accreditation.
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