202718 - Transportation of Dangerous Good - Marine (IMDG)

Offshore Safety and Survival Centre

Description

This course is designed to provide training for seafaring personnel responsible for the handling of packaged dangerous, hazardous and harmful cargoes aboard ships; and shore-based personnel responsible for the transport of dangerous goods by sea and with responsibilities for classification, packaging, consignment, loading/off-loading, and segregation of cargo aboard ships.

Learning Outcomes

To enable students to define the nine classes of dangerous goods and their associated hazards;
To enable students to recognize proper shipping names, classes, UN numbers and packing groups for dangerous goods;
To enable students to identify dangerous goods and how to use the IMDG code in planning packaging, handling, stowage, and transportation of dangerous goods;
To enable students to identify safety marks, such as labels and placards, used to identify the different classes of dangerous goods;
To provide students with knowledge about the information that must be on a shipping document;
To provide students with knowledge of the requirements regarding stowage, mixed loads and the need for segregation of incompatible dangerous goods;
To provide the students with knowledge to choose the proper means of containment for dangerous goods;
To provide students with knowledge about what to do if the shipping documents, placards, labels other safety marks or means of containment seem inadequate or incorrect;
To enable students to identify dangerous goods emergencies and how to use the IMDG supplement in coping with emergencies.

Credential Awarded

Certificate of Achievement

Prerequisites

None

202718 - Transportation of Dangerous Good - Marine (IMDG)

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