DOT General Awareness
Available for MP4 video download by purchasing a corporate or single-site license.
Created specifically for the Department of Transportation's HAZMAT Training regulation on Handling and Transporting Hazardous Materials, this program provides the information necessary to comply with the regulation's "General Awareness" training requirement. Focusing on employees who handle hazardous materials, this program reviews a number of topics aimed at making employees more aware of situations in which they may encounter hazardous chemicals, the nature of the hazards the chemicals may have, and the issue of taking appropriate security measures when dealing with hazardous materials that the DOT has added to the regulation. Areas covered in the program include:
- The regulation itself
- Hazardous materials, definitions and classes
- Hazard communication
- Hazard "Indicators", such as labels, shipping papers, and placards
- Where hazardous materials may be encountered
- Packaging
- Shipping
- Transport (trucks, ships, rail, etc.)
- Storage
- Security risks and terrorism