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Multimodal DOT, IATA & IMDG HAZMAT Shipping
Shipping Dangerous Goods by Air, Road, Rail and Sea
Online Training Certificate Course
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This multimodal HAZMAT training certification course uses online training to explain how to manage dangerous goods across diverse transportation platforms.
Multimodal shipping often involves transporting hazardous materials by some combination of trucks, ships, trains, and aircraft. Multimodal hazmat shipping is unique because preparations that protect dangerous items on one platform may not protect them on another. For instance, variant temperatures, air pressures, or vibration levels may affect cargo in unpredictable ways. That's why shipping dangerous goods along a route over different transportation platforms can benefit from specific multimodal HAZMAT training.
This course is for:
Multimodal training is ideal for workers who pack, load, transport, and inspect hazardous materials that are subject to IMO, IATA, and DOT shipping regulations. This course trains workers who transport different shipments over different platforms as well as workers whose shipments are carried over more than one platform along a single route.
Case Study: In August 2016, a railroad tank car sustained a 42-inch-long crack in its tank shell shortly after being loaded with 178,400 pounds of liquefied compressed chlorine at the Axiall Corporation Natrium plant in New Martinsville, West Virginia. Over the next 2.5 hours, the entire 178,400-pound load of chlorine was released and formed a large vapor cloud that migrated south along the Ohio River valley. The railroad tank car had a stenciled load limit of 178,400 pounds and a maximum gross rail load of 263,000 pounds.
The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the probable cause of the chlorine release was an undetected preexisting crack near the inboard end of the stub sill cradle pad. Contributing to the structural failure of the tank car was Axiall Corporation's insufficiently frequent inspection interval that did not detect the crack, the low fracture resistance of the nonnormalized steel used in the tank car construction, and the presence of residual stresses associated with Rescar Companies' tank wall corrosion repairs.
Key Takeaways: The containers that transport hazardous materials must be inspected with care and consistency to prevent life-threatening accidents.
Available languages: 100+ languages - translation provided by Google Translate (Select Language bottom of page)
Governing Regulations
Hazardous materials shipping is governed by a combination of regulatory bodies, including the Department of Transportation (DOT), the International Air Transport Association (IATA), and the International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code.
Key governing regulations include:
- 49 CFR – DOT Regulations for Hazardous Materials Transportation
- IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations (DGR) – Guidelines for air transport of dangerous goods
- IMDG Code – Standards for the maritime transport of hazardous materials
What You'll Learn
Topics Covered
- Governing Bodies and Regulations
- Hazard Classes 1-3
- Hazard Classes 4-6
- Hazard Classes 7-9
- Regulations
- Communication Marking, Labeling, and Placarding
- Labeling
- Placarding
- Packing and Packaging
- DOT Exceptions - Limited and Small Quantities
- International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code Packing Provisions
- International Air Transport Association Packing and Packaging
- Handling, Loading, Stowage and Segregation
- International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code Stowage and Segregation
- Documentation
- International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code Transport Documents
- International Air Transport Association (IATA) Shipping Documentation
- Follow the Journey
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Identify the governing bodies for multimodal shipping.
- Understand the definition of a dangerous good.
- Understand the hazard classes and the intricacies of each.
- Explain how to read the different tables and lists identifying hazardous materials and their shipping procedures.
- Understand and explain how hazards are communicated via marking, labeling, and placarding.
- Explain the stowage and segregation requirements for different modes of transportation according to regulatory agency requirements.
- Identify the different types of documentation necessary for shipping dangerous goods.
Our online courses will take at least 2 hours to complete, including the final exam, unless a different timeframe is specified in the course details. The learner may log on and off as needed. When they log back in, the course will return to where they left off.
Unless otherwise indicated in the course details, learners have 60 days from the date of enrollment to complete the course. During this time, participants can log out and back in to return to where they left off in the course. The only exception is the final exam, which must be completed in a single sitting.
Learners who do not complete the course within 60 days will have their enrollment disabled and not be eligible for a refund. Please review our Terms & Conditions for details.
Multimodal regulators all have unique retraining requirements. Routine online certification can keep workers up to date on HAZMAT procedures no matter what transportation platforms they manage. The particular regulations are as follows:
- The IATA DGR requires recurrent training within 24 months of the previous training, unless a relevant authority defines a shorter interval.
- The DOT HAZMAT Shipping regulations require recurrent training every three years.
- The IMDG Code does not specify a required recertification schedule. However, HAZMAT employees on US and foreign vessels operating in the navigable waters of the United States must follow the retraining requirements in 49 CFR Part 176, Section 13 which requires retraining every three years.
Since the shortest retraining requirement is two years, we will email you twenty-one days before your certification expires so you have time to retrain.
Each student will receive 1.0 CEUs (or 10 CMEs) from Compliance Training Online® for completing this course.
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