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Truck and Track Winter 2019 www.truckandtrack.com 60 DANGEROUS GOODS There are mandatory criteria required for ADR compliance, as well as an awareness of the hazards that the goodsmay 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, should there be an incident. This article is a practical case-study of the process Keedwell Scotland Ltd implemented last year to manage the logistics of Dangerous Goods, and therefore may be useful as a checklist for transport operators. But first a little context In the summer of 2019, Managing Director Gordon McLellan and his Operations Director John McLellan decided to augment Keedwell Scotland Ltd’s pallet and parcel services to incorporate ADR. Keedwell Scotland Ltd started trading in February 2016 and is a 50/50 partnership between the McLellan family and the RT Keedwell Group. Managing Director Gordon McLellan is a well- known and respected figure within the logistics industry, providing transport and warehousing solutions for Scotland; previously with courier and trucking services at McLellan Transport [among other ventures]. Gordon McLellan formed Keedwell Scotland, to augment the reach of the Somerset based RT Keedwell group’s UK depot infrastructure, placing a firm focus on Scotland. Initially Keedwell Scotland exploited the McLellan family’s longstanding experience and expertise managing the pallet network model with TPN [The Pallet Network Ltd], and with a diverse and growing industrial customer base. For a non-ADR logistics operator to consider taking on Dangerous Goods into their service portfolio, it is important to have qualified and experienced employees andmanagers who haveworked in this highly regulated sector – augmented by an external consultant, a respected person within the DG sector. Dangerous Goods are denoted within ADR using Kemmler classification as - Class 1 – Explosive substances or articles Class 2 – Gases Class 3 – Flammable Liquids Class 4.1 – Flammable Solids, Self-Reactive and De-sensitized Explosives Class 4.2 – Substances liable to spontaneously combust Class 4.3 – Substances which in contact with water emit flammable and/or toxic gas Class 5.1 – Oxidizing Substances Class 5.2 – Organic Peroxides Class 6.1 – Toxic Class 6.2 – Infectious Substances Class 7 – Radioactive Class 8 – Corrosive Class 9 – Miscellaneous dangerous substances and Environmentally Hazardous It was Keedwell Scotland’s Technical Manager, Gerry Gillespie who contacted me initially, as we had worked together at United Transport, as well as with McLellan’s Transport [Bishopbriggs and Stepps in Glasgow]. At both periods in his career, Gerry Gillespie had gained significant technical experience in both bulk [tanker] and packaged [palletised] Dangerous Goods. Keedwell Scotland’s ADRexperiencewas alsoboostedbyOperations Manager KennyMurray, whoworked in the past for Scottish Express andDHL in their ADR/Dangerous Goods Operation. It was important to ensure Transport Manager Stephen Hamilton was kept up to speed on the requirements that needed to be in place for the start of ADR operations, earmarked for commencement in January 2020. Case Study: Implementing ADR Logistics in Scotland by Ali Karim In this issue, our Dangerous Goods Columnist, Ali KarimFRSC FCILT, discusses basic requirements for an established logistics organisation to augment its service - offering the carriage and storage of HazardousMaterial in pallets and parcels. Ali Karim Qualified and experienced personnel ensure the safe storage and handling of Dangerous Goods TAILOR MADE VEHICLE & TRAILER SOLUTIONS 01543 420 121 www. deker .co.uk