ADR & CDG driver-specific training requirements.

The two most common examples of dangerous goods training levels apply to drivers who transport dangerous goods. MyDGSA provides both levels of training.

General Awareness training* permits:

• Carriage of Excepted and Limited Quantity Packages (EQ, LQ)
• Carriage of packaged products qualifying as Small Load

ADR Licence (Packaged Goods) permits:

• Carriage of Excepted and Limited Quantity Packages (EQ, LQ)
• Carriage of packaged products qualifying as Small Loads
• Carriage of packaged products over the Small Loads thresholds

* Note: For transport operators there is an apparent contradiction in the current version of ADR with regard to the training requirements for EQ and LQ consignments, whereby it could be construed that no training is needed for the transport of these package types. Martin Castle from the DfT’s Dangerous Goods Office has clarified the position saying that the expectation under CDG is for everyone to be trained in accordance with ADR 1.3 including those moving EQ and LQ loads.