www.truckandtrack.com Winter 2025/26 Truck and Track 61 DANGEROUS GOODS the appointment of Dangerous Goods Safety Advisers (DGSA) for those working with Dangerous Goods. This included manufacturers, consignors, shippers, consignees and storage operators within the Dangerous Goods Supply Chain. In essence the role of the DGSA is to interpret the carriage regulations, to ensure systems are in place to manage the safe transport of dangerous goods, and to monitor those activities. Since 1999, the scope of the DGSA’s role has become more and more intense, to internally police all activities with the DG supply chain. ADR section 1.8.3.3 lists the main duties of the DGSA which can be summarized as follows: ■ Monitoring compliance with the requirements of the regulations ■ Advising the Operator on the carriage of dangerous goods ■ Preparing an annual report detailing the dangerous goods activities of the Operator which must be retained for at least five years ■ Ensuring that systems, instructions or procedures are in place so that dangerous goods are correctly and safely packed, labelled, marked for transport accompanied by appropriate dangerous goods documentation. ■ Ensuring that all persons involved are provided with appropriate training and this is formally recorded ■ Ensuring that appropriate emergency procedures are in place in the event of an incident or accident involving dangerous goods ■ To provide assistance with the investigation and reporting of any serious incidents involving dangerous goods and to ensure that corrective measures are implemented to avoid a recurrence of any such incidents ■ Ensuring systems are in place to assess and monitor any third party contractors used in the carriage of dangerous goods thus confirming any such contractors are suitably qualified and equipped for those purposes ■ Ensuring that systems are in place so that dangerous goods are packed, filled, loaded, and unloaded safely and within the requirements of the regulations ■ Ensuring that systems are in place for the checking of documentation and safety equipment on board vehicles and to ensure such safety equipment is fit for purpose, within service date and meets the requirements of the regulations. ■ Monitoring the need for or the implementation of a security plan if carriage involves high consequence dangerous goods (HCDG). The International Dimension International standards on the transport of dangerous goods by road are derived from the recommendations of the UN Committee of Experts. These recommendations are contained in the so-called “UN orange book”, and form the basis of a series of codes covering the classification, packaging and labeling of dangerous goods for transport by road, rail, sea and air. The UK Department for Transport (DfT) is the “competent authority” while the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is the enforcement authority for many aspects of the Carriage TRUCK & TRAILER SOLUTIONS WELCOME TOALLPORTS GROUP allportsgroup.co.uk H2S Hydrogen Sulfide INFO A Karim IMDG Sea Containers Stowage IBC delivery N2O Nitrous Oxide Pallets in Manchester
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