DOT: Loading and Unloading

Description: One of the critical factors in providing a safe shipment of hazardous materials is to prevent damage to the containers and to keep incompatible materials from reacting. As you can well imagine, if either of these happened, you could end up with a dangerous situation. DOT has a set of regulations designed specifically to reduce the chances of that happening, as well as to protect you during the loading or unloading operation.

This course describes tasks and regulations related to the last step in preparing hazardous materials for shipment-the loading of bulk and non-bulk packages on a vehicle for transportation by highway. At this point in the process, the materials have been properly classified, packaged, marked, labeled or placarded, and shipping papers have been prepared.

Usability: This is an asynchronous course. Your browser should be IE 5.5+ or Netscape 6+ with cookies and JavaScript enabled. Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view and print Certificates of Completion. You will also require the Flash plug-in. Flash and Acrobat Reader are pre-installed in most computers.