IMO Vessel Dangerous Goods Training on IMDG Code in Shanghai, China on November 12-14, 2009

To help improve the safety of transporting dangerous goods by vessel, and to help shippers, freight forwarders and carriers to improve their technical capabilities, the Bureau of Dangerous Goods Ltd., USA and its Chinese operation the Bureau of Dangerous Goods, China announces a 3-day IMDG training class to be held November 12 to 14, 2009 in Shanghai, China.

This class will feature topics covering the International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code regulations for governing the transport of dangerous goods by vessel (sea).

To learn more about this upcoming class or to register, please click on the link provided below:

IMO Vessel Dangerous Goods Training on IMDG Code in Shanghai, China on November 12-14, 2009

Dangerous Goods Declaration Forms Online at ShipHazmat.NET - Summer of Safety Awareness Sale ends on September 4, 2009

The Bureau of Dangerous Goods recently began promoting its Summer of Safety Awareness Sale at ShipHazmat.NET, an online application for generating dangerous goods declaration forms in complete regulatory compliance with the IATA DGR and shipping dangerous goods by air transport.

Until September 4, 2009, all new and existing per-click users of ShipHazmat.NET are enjoying a 54% savings for each proper shipping name (or UN number) entry added to a completed shipper's declaration form.

Just pay $6.95 per proper shipping name and enjoy the benefits of full compliance without the hassle of spelling errors, individual interpretation of the regulations and menacing fines and penalties from rejected and improperly prepared shipments of dangerous goods.

Additionally, the Bureau of Dangerous Goods will be releasing a series of informative blog entries and reference guides promoting the safe transportation of dangerous goods and hazmat, along with helpful hints to proper dangerous goods declaration form data entry.

We are also proud to introduce our most recent project Hazmat University, a website completely dedicated to online hazmat training. Shippers, freight forwarders and carriers looking for initial and recurrent hazmat training courses in IATA, DOT 49CFR, IMDG vessel and infectious substances can enroll and begin learning at their own pace from any computer connected to the Internet anywhere around the world.

As an added bonus, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Hazmat Security Awareness Course is available for free online through Hazmat University! Simply register a new account and this course will automatically be added to your list of available courses.

IMDG training for dangerous goods in Shanghai, China for August 2009

The Tianjin, China office for the Bureau of Dangerous Goods, Ltd. is offering a 3-day IMDG training course from August 5 to August 7, 2009 in Shanghai, China to help promote and improve safety awareness for transporting dangerous goods.

This course is specifically designed to familiarize shippers, freight forwarders and carriers with the safe operation, handling and transportation of dangerous goods by vessel; including regulations, documentation and packaging to meet the requirements of increasingly restricted regulatory requirements from North America and Europe.

Upon successful completion of the course, students with a passing exam grade will receive of Certificate of Training Completion, which meets international requirements of dangerous goods training and transportation. This includes U.S. government requirements for general awareness and familiarization, limited function specific training, safety and security awareness training for transporting hazardous materials from, to and within the United States.

Who Should Participate?
Managers and directors of operational staff, managers of freight forwarding businesses who deal with dangerous goods transportation by vessel, and anyone involved in the manufacturing and safety of dangerous goods as it relates to importing and exporting.

For more information, please download our course description and registration form in PDF format, or call us at 1-609-860-0300 in the United States, or 021-52841507 in China.

Spaces are still available!

The Bureau of Dangerous Goods, Ltd. is a global provider of hazmat and dangerous goods training solutions, and innovative leader in dangerous goods compliance software.

We are also pleased to introduce Hazmat University, our online hazmat training website for providing IATA, DOT 49 CFR and IMO online training solutions.

Hazmat training upcoming enrollment in August for DOT 49 CFR, IATA, IMO IMDG Code and more.

The Bureau of Dangerous Goods has upcoming hazmat training courses currently available for enrollment in the following locations:

• Cranbury, New Jersey
• Denver, Colorado

Courses include:

• DOT training in 49 CFR regulations (initial)
• IATA and DOT combined training (initial)
• IATA initial and recurrent training courses
• IMDG recurrent hazmat training courses
• Multi-modal hazmat training in IATA, 49 CFR and IMO/IMDG Code

We also provide customizable on-site hazmat training for small business and enterprise-level seminars. Our on-site courses are available around the world and we will work with you to meet your organization's hazmat training requirements. With over 25 years of working experience, our qualified instructors can help maximize safety and efficiency in the workplace with regards to transporting and handling hazmat.

HazmatUniversity.com is also coming soon! We've taken our high quality hazmat training courses from the Bureau of Dangerous Goods and packaged them (no pun intended) into online curriculums for a fraction of the cost you would pay for ANY hazmat training in a classroom! No instructor fees, travel expenses, room and board costs, loss of personnel or training facility maintenance fees. Simply point, click and learn!

To learn more, go to HazmatUniversity.com for all of the details.

Proper classification of dangerous goods transported by aircraft is the first step towards compliance

The proper classification of dangerous goods to be transported by aircraft is the first step towards achieving regulatory compliance and promoting a safe work environment for everyone involved. Classifying dangerous goods creates a standard method of universal communication regarding the type of dangerous good or hazardous material being transported. This is especially important because most dangerous goods are transported in opague or non-transparent containers and packagings, making it near impossible to identify the contents inside. By properly classifying a dangerous goods shipment along with the correct labels and markings, we can help reduce the risk of accidents including spills, explosions, corrosion, radiation and more.

The IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations, along with the ICAO Technical Instructions for the Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air, classifies dangerous goods into nine distinct class hazards. Some of these class hazards are further divided into divisions, each with specific criteria to classify the division from others.

These are the nine class hazards and their respective divisions:

• Class 1: Explosives
  • Division 1.1: Articles and substances having a mass explosion hazard
  • Division 1.2: Articles and substances having a projection hazard but not a mass explosion hazard
  • Division 1.3: Articles and substances having a fire hazard, a minor blast hazard and/or a minor projection hazard but not a mass explosion hazard
  • Division 1.4: Articles and substances presenting no significant hazard
  • Division 1.5: Very insensitive substances having a mass explosion hazard
  • Division 1.6: Extremely insensitive articles
• Class 2: Gases
  • Division 2.1: Flammable Gas
  • Division 2.2: Non-flammable, non-toxic gas
  • Toxic gas
• Class 3: Flammable Liquids
• Class 4: Flammable Solids; Substances Liable to Spontaneous Combustion; Substances Which, in Contact with Water, Emit Flammable Gases
  • Division 4.1: Flammable solids, self-reactive substances and solid desnsitized explosives
  • Division 4.2: Substances liable to spontaneous combustion
  • Division 4.3: Substances which, in contact with water, emit flammable gases
• Class 5: Oxidizing Substances and Organic Peroxides
  • Division 5.1: Oxidizers
  • Division 5.2: Organic peroxides
• Class 6: Toxic and Infectious Subsssstances
  • Division 6.1: Toxic substances
  • Division 6.2: Infectious substances
• Class 7: Radioactive Material
• Class 8: Corrosives
• Class 9: Miscellaneous Dangerous Goods

There are dangerous goods and hazardous materials that have multiple class hazards assigned. Section 3.10 in the IATA DGR describes the criteria for assigning a dangerous good with multiple hazards. In this case, the most restrictive of packing groups between the hazard classes must be assigned to the dangerous goods.

The Bureau of Dangerous Goods, Ltd. provides classroom, on-site and online dangerous goods training solutions for business of any size around the world. Our courses are designed to train employees on proper identification and classification of dangerous goods for transport by air, surface and vessel.

HazmatUniversity.com is our designated online hazmat training application for simplifying the training process by bringing course material and instruction to you. Take online courses at your own pace, at your own convenience, and maintain regulatory compliance.

Online hazmat training coming soon to HazmatUniversity.com, provided by the Bureau of Dangerous Goods, Ltd.

The Bureau of Dangerous Goods, Ltd. is pleased to announce the new upcoming HazmatUniversity.com website, dedicated to providing online hazmat training for regulatory guidelines in transporting hazmat by surface, air or vessel. We will still be providing classroom and on-site training solutions, and feel that this will be a great addition to delivering quality hazmat training services globally for businesses of any size.

HazmatUniversity.com will offer several different courses and packages for students to enroll in. Here is just a sample of our course listing:

• Online air hazmat training - initial and recurrent training for classification, identification, packaging, marking and labeling, documentation, placarding, safety and more
• Online ground hazmat training -initial and recurrent training for classification, identification, packaging, marking and labeling, documentation, placarding, safety and more
• Online vessel hazmat training - initial and recurrent training for classification, identification, packaging, marking and labeling, documentation, placarding, safety and more

Our online courses are separated into various modules, along with quizzes after each module to measure a student's progression through the online hazmat course. Quiz scores are added together at the end of the course and averaged for a passing or failing grade.

Online learning and training at HazmatUniversity.com offers several, distinct advantages over classroom and on-site training programs. Here are just some of those advantages:

• Online training can be done at anytime, from anywhere around the world. Students can enroll, attend and complete online courses at their own convenience, at their own pace. Over the weekend. After work. After the kids have gone to bed.
• Course material is available 24/7 around the clock. Each course is based on a governing body that is encompassed within a regulatory manual. For example, the IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations governs the transport of dangerous goods shipped by aircraft internationally. These regulatory manuals and course manuals are available whenever you need them.
• Online courses are less expensive for everyone. There are no instructor fees or classroom fees because there is no instructor or classroom! Employers sending employees to training no longer have to send employees to training! This means no transportation costs, no room and board costs, and no decrease in manpower and productivity.
• Online hazmat courses meet the same training requirements by domestic and international law as classroom and on-site training programs. You can stay compliant with regulatory requirements for hazmat training in the comfort of your own living room or desk at work.
• Each online course can be taken on-demand. You don't have to wait for an upcoming classroom course to be filled or for a particular start date. Purchase and register for an online course at BDGStoresOnline.com and you can begin your training immediately.
• An online training environment allows the trainer to give students the latest information available. The technological advancements of the Internet allow trainers to deliver the most current regulatory updates and addendums to students at a moment's notice.
• There are potentially better retention rates for learning material via online courses. Since students learn at their own pace, the potential for students to better understand the course material is much higher than classroom training. Students can also email an instructor for further clarification.

HazmatUniversity.com can provide course materials online or ship hard copies of the regulatory manuals and course manuals to a physical address. Certificate of completion documents can be received by the student in high-resolution PDFs or can also be shipped to a physical address at the student's request.

For more information, visit the Bureau of Dangerous Goods, Ltd. online, who also provide an Internet application for creating fully compliant documention and packaging for shipping dangerous goods by aircraft called ShipHazmat.net.

Upcoming hazmat training classes for June 2009 are now available for enrollment

The Bureau of Dangerous Goods, Ltd. has upcoming training classes open to the public available throughout the month of June. If your hazmat training certification is about to expire, now is the time to register and enroll in an upcoming recurrent training program. Failure to do so can result in several penalties and fines enforced by the U.S. DOT or your local national authority. We also have initial hazmat training courses for new employees and those new to the dangerous goods shipping field.

Register now before classes fill up!