DOT Waterways HAZMAT Transportation

Online Training Certification Course

49 CFR 176

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DOT HAZMAT transportation training provides HAZMAT employees with important requirements for compliance with labeling, packaging, identifying, and stowing various kinds of hazardous materials. As part of a comprehensive safety training program, this online certification focuses on ensuring the safe and compliant transport of goods in navigable waters of the U.S.

Hazardous materials must be handled with care, which is why shipping training is essential for safe handling and transportation of hazardous materials via waterways. This online training course provides a general awareness of important water HAZMAT regulations, which are specific to the unique nature of transporting hazardous materials by vessel.

This course is for:
Every employee in contact with hazardous materials is required to complete initial and refresher safety training. This includes any person who prepares HAZMAT materials for transport, labels or marks packages, signs the shipping papers, or is involved in transporting the material on the carrier vessel.

Case Study No. 1: On May 20, 2008, a seaman on board a container ship was making rounds of a vessel moored in Port Everglades when he noticed a tank container in the cargo hold that was leaking cargo. He reported this to the second man on watch, who reported it to the Port Captain, who notified the shore side stevedores and instructed them to remove the loaded containers. A shore side shift supervisor went into the cargo hold and collapsed, as did the two other men who followed him in. A HAZMAT team was dispatched into the cargo hold to extract the bodies, and the container was moved from the vessel to off-gas. This incident resulted in three fatalities.

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Governing Regulations

Part 176 of the Hazardous Materials Regulations covers the requirements for transporting hazardous materials by most commercial vessels, foreign or domestic, when in navigable waters of the United States. This online training course satisfies the modal-specific shipping training requirements found in Part 176 and Part 172, Subpart H, of the HMR.

The International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code is a uniform international code for the transport of dangerous goods by sea and covers such matters as packing, container traffic and stowage, and segregation of incompatible substances. You may consult the IMDG Code in place of Part 176 as long as you also follow the requirements listed in 171.12 and 176.11 of the HMR.

What You'll Learn

About This Course

Course Objectives

Introduction to DOT Waterways HAZMAT Transportation Training Course

Applicability
Key Terms
Incidents and Statistics

Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR)

Regulatory Agencies
Training Requirements

Hazardous Materials Table (HMT)

Columns 1-10 of the HMT
Appendix A
Appendix B
How to Use the HMT
Hazard Classes
Lithium Batteries

49 CFR Part 176: Subparts A and B

General Requirements
Vessel Personnel
Inspection
General Operating Requirements
Shipping Papers
Certificates
Dangerous Cargo Manifest
Other Documentation
Inspection of Cargo

Handling and Stowage Requirements

Preparation of the Vessel
General Stowage Requirements for HAZMAT
Transport Vehicles, Freight Containers, Portable Tanks, and Power-Operated Industrial Trucks

Segregation Requirements

Segregation Table Key

Control of Transport Vehicles

Private Automobiles and Motorboats

Special Requirements for Barges

Detailed Requirements for Class 1-Explosive Materials

Loading and Unloading
Precautions
Stowage
Electrical Requirements
Segregation
Passenger Vessels
Cargo Transport Units and Shipborne Barges
Handling Class 1-Explosive Materials in Port
Magazine Vessels

Detailed Requirements for Class 2-Compressed Gas Materials

Stowage under Deck
Miscellaneous Stowage Requirements

Detailed Requirements for Class 3-Flammable and Combustible Liquids

Miscellaneous Requirements

Detailed Requirements for Class 4-Flammable Solids, Class 5-Oxidizers and Organic Peroxides, and Division 1.5 Materials

Stowage of Charcoal
Division 1.5 materials, Ammonium Nitrate, and Ammonium Nitrate Mixtures
Permit Requirements

Detailed Requirements for Division 2.3 Poisonous Gas and Division 6.1 Poisonous Materials

Detailed Requirements for Radioactive Materials

Transport and Criticality Safety Indices Tables
Segregation Distances
Leakage or Sifting of Radioactive Materials

Detailed Requirements for Class 8-Corrosive Materials

Detailed Requirements for Cotton and Vegetable Fibers, Motor Vehicles, Polymeric Beads, and Plastic Molding Compounds

Stowage of Cotton or Vegetable Fibers with Rosin or Pitch
Stowage of Cotton or Vegetable Fibers with Coal
Stowage of Motor Vehicles and Mechanical Equipment
Polymeric Beads and Plastic Molding Compounds

Incident Reporting and Security

Security Awareness

Summary

Additional Resources

Exam

It will take a MINIMUM of 2 hours to complete this online course. The student may log on and off as needed. A bookmark will be set so when they log back in they will return to where they left off.

We have no restrictions on how long a person takes to complete a course. Likewise, if you are purchasing for others, we have no time limit on assigning courses, so you can purchase a larger quantity than you currently need and take advantage of volume discounts.

DOT HAZMAT transportation standards require that every hazardous material employee to receive periodic retraining - at least once every three years.

Each student will receive 0.2 CEUs (or 2 CMEs) from Compliance Training Online® for completing this course.