TruckandTrackAutumn2019

Truck and Track Autumn 2019 www.truckandtrack.com 70 DANGEROUS GOODS There are specific mandatory criteria required for compliance, as well as an awareness of the hazards that the goods may pose to not only the organisation and staff involved in managing the storage and carriage, but also the regulators, third-parties and the emergency services tasked to restore order. One key issue of compliance is to ensure documentation exists to not only risk assess, plan and record the training, but also to ensure that refresher training is managed adroitly. I have been involved in training while working in the Dangerous Goods supply chain throughout my career. In the early days, I was the trainee, but now I sit on the opposite side of the table, advising organisations on their statutory obligations in training their staff, as well as being the actual trainer. It was over a recent lunch with Bob Carter, the founder and Managing Director of Cargo Training International that we discussed training for the DG sector and agreed that its importance cannot be overstated. Naturally there are statutory obligations, requirements by law such as ADR Driving License, FLT certification, DGSA examinations and the requirements for consigning Dangerous Goods by sea and air. The list is comprehensive and, for organisations not in compliance, the penalties are onerous and serious reputational damage can result. It can be a criminal as well as a civil matter when an organisation is non-compliant in the documentation/packaging it provides a shipper, or even the shipper provides an airline. Many organisations as consignors, rely on their logistics partner to ensure full legal and regulatory compliance. As an experienced company director from multinationals, PLCs and privately-owned start-ups, I am fascinated and intrigued how an idea becomes a successful business. In Bob’s case, CTI [Cargo Training International] came about from his own experience with British Airways back before themillennium. After a career spanning three decades with the nation’s favourite carrier, Bob left to pursue an opportunity he recognised and seized. With the ‘opening-up’ of global air-freight channels to diverse carriers [what we term freight-forwarders ], who book ‘space’ on airlines for cargo; Bob realised quality trainingwas not just required but essential. Previously, airlines conducted their own in-house training sessions, but now there was a gap opening, one which Bob investigated. His business grew from humble origins - small offices on-site at Heathrow - to now being based at Houston in the US and Teddington, near London. Cargo Training International has both full time trainers, as well as an array of consultantswho are all certified/professionally qualified instructors. The range of courses is conducted in-house at a client’s place of business, or off-site at one of CTI’s many training locations in the UK. More information available from www.cargotraining.com Bob and I agree that it’s the organisations who ensure their staff are trained beyond statutory obligations, that prove their resilience against economic difficulties and problems of long-term staff Training for the Dangerous Goods Supply Chain by Ali Karim In this issue, our Dangerous Goods Columnist, Ali KarimFRSC FCILT, discusses the requirement for training to complywith legislation pertaining to the logistics of Dangerous Goods within the Supply Chain. This embraces warehousing and all modes of carriage including road, rail, sea and air. Ali Karim Ali Karimwith FTA Training in 2012 Dangerous Goods by Air course with instructor Rick Maughan APN FLT collision countermeasures