A 2-day seminar for anyone involved with transporting DANGEROUS GOODS –Transport Operators, Drivers, Consignors and Consignees. These sessions will include the most recent edition of SANS 1518: “Design, construction, testing, approval and maintenance of road vehicles and portable tanks”, and other regulation changes.

WHAT THE LAW EXPECTS (extract from Foresight Publications’ “Orange Book”)
“In a nutshell, employers are expected to find out what could go wrong, and then make sure it doesn’t.  Furthermore, the onus rests on the employer to prove that he acted reasonably”.

This presentation is divided into 2 main sections – aspects of the National Road Traffic and Occupational Health and Safety Acts and regulations, and relevant S A Bureau of Standards Specifications and Codes of Practice.

DAY 1:

NATIONAL ROAD TRAFFIC ACT AND REGULATIONS

Operator fitness, and duties of the operator

Driver licensing and Professional Driving Permits

Vehicle roadworthiness and certification

Chapter VIII – Transportation of Dangerous Goods and Substances by  road

• Incorporation of standards
• Transportation of certain dangerous goods prohibited
• Exemptions
• Powers and duties of Dangerous Goods Inspectors
• Duties of operator, driver, consignor and consignee
• Driver to undergo training
• Documents to be held by driver.

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT AND REGULATIONS

General duties of employers to their employees

General duties of employers and self-employed persons to persons other than their employees

Education and training with regard to Hazardous Chemical Substances

Acts or omissions by employees and mandataries (Sect 37)

General duties of employees at work

Recording and reporting of accidents and incidents

DAY 2

SABS SPECIFICATIONS AND CODES OF PRACTICE

SANS 1398: Road tank vehicles for petroleum-based flammable liquids [Now incorporated into SANS 1518]

SANS 1518: Transportation of dangerous goods – design requirements for tankers. [Now titled: Design, construction, testing, approval and maintenance of road vehicles and portable tanks]

SANS 10228: The identification and classification of dangerous substances and goods

SANS 10229: Packaging of dangerous goods for road and rail transportation in S A

SANS 10230: Transportation of dangerous goods – inspection requirements for road vehicles. [Withdrawn 2007]

SANS 10231: Transportation of dangerous goods – operational requirements for road vehicles

SANS 10232-1: Transportation of dangerous goods – Emergency information systems – Part 1:  Emergency information systems for road transportation

SANS 10232-3: Transportation of dangerous goods – Emergency information systems – Part 3 :  Emergency action codes,

SANS 10233: Intermediate bulk container for dangerous substances

SANS 10368: Transport of low-hazard goods in bulk – emergency information for road vehicles

SANS 10263:   The warehousing of dangerous goods – Enclosed storage areas and covered and uncovered storage yards.