About the course
Dangerous goods awareness training is a legal requirement for all persons involved in their transport, including those handling dangerous goods and warehouse staff.
This e-learning course, which is completely online, will provide you with a general overview of the dangerous goods regulations, concentrating on the requirements for packaged goods to be transported by road in the UK and EU.
The course covers the recognition of hazardous chemicals and dangerous goods and the hazards that dangerous goods present, how dangerous goods are described, packed, marked and labelled and the paperwork required to ship them.
The packing and marking provisions for goods packed as limited quantities and excepted quantities are also discussed.
This course provides you with all of the necessary information to meet your legal training obligations.
The course is entirely online and allows you to work through at your own pace.
Downloadable guidance is included with the course for you to reference back to at a later date, lessons are accompanied by interactive exercises and the provisions are explained clearly by video with accompanying examples.
The videos in this course are presented in British English (including English captions) with subtitles in Ukrainian (українська), German (Deutsch), French (Français), Spanish (Español) and Italian (Italiano). If English is not your first language and you would like subtitles in any other language, please get in touch.
We also have this course available in a Polish language version, click here to view that course.
Course content
- Introducing Mike (1:01)
- What are 'lithium batteries' and 'sodium ion batteries' and what hazards do they present? (2:14)
- Lithium and sodium (ion) batteries classification (6:54)
- Identifying exempt and fully regulated batteries (3:07)
- Lithium and sodium (ion) batteries section summary (0:28)
- Lithium and sodium (ion) batteries questions
Course notes
98 pages
A downloadable PDF written by our experienced Dangerous Goods Safety Advisers.
Packed full of clear explanations, experience, figures and tables to help put your learning into practice and reference back to once you've passed the course.
Additional information
This course is a general introduction to the dangerous goods provisions. Certain groups of staff, such as shippers, packers and drivers, may require further training.
Course access is granted immediately upon purchase and the course takes approximately 90 minutes to complete. Once completed, you can download your certificate immediately.
The course price is £55.00 per user excluding VAT.
A VAT invoice will be emailed to you automatically following your purchase. The rate of VAT is determined by your location.
Please click here if you would like to pay for multiple users via emailed invoice (we offer discounts for multiple purchases!) or pay via invoice instead of by card online, and click here to purchase online for someone else or purchase multiple courses online.
For bulk purchases we can also customise this course to meet your exact company requirements, please contact us for further information.
Customer portal
If you purchase courses in bulk from us, we'll set you up with access to our customer portal, so you can see who's enrolled and completed the courses you have purchased.
You can then export this data in a variety of formats for your internal training records.
