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Training Requirements
A person who handles, offers for transport or transports dangerous goods must be adequately trained and hold a training certificate, or must perform those activities in the presence and under the direct supervision of a person who is adequately trained and who holds a training certificate.

A person is adequately trained if they have sound knowledge of all the topics listed below that relate directly to the person’s duties and to the dangerous goods the person is expected to handle, offer for transport or transport.

  1. Training should include one or more of the following topics related to dangerous goods (Section 6.2).

    (a) the classification criteria and test methods in Part 2, Classification;

    (b) shipping names;

    (c) the use of Schedules 1, 2 and 3;

    (d) the shipping document and train consist requirements in Part 3, Documentation;

    (e) the dangerous goods safety marks requirements in Part 4, Dangerous Goods Safety Marks;

    (f) the certification safety marks requirements, safety requirements and safety standards in Part 5, Means of Containment;

    (g) the emergency response assistance plan requirements in Part 7, Emergency Response Assistance Plan;

    (h) the report requirements in Part 8, Accidental Release and Imminent Accidental Release Report Requirements;

    (i) safe handling and transportation practices for dangerous goods, including the characteristics of the dangerous goods;

    (j) the proper use of any equipment used to handle or transport the dangerous goods;

    (k) the reasonable emergency measures the person must take to reduce or eliminate any danger to public safety that results or may reasonably be expected to result from an accidental release of the dangerous goods;

    (l) for air transport, the aspects of training set out in Chapter 4, Training, of Part 1, General, of the ICAO Technical Instructions for the persons named in that Part and the requirements in Part 12, Air, of the TDG Regulations; and

    (m) for marine transport, the requirements set out in the IMDG Code and the "Dangerous Goods Shipping Regulations", as applicable, and the requirements in Part 11, Marine, of the TDG Regulations.