Shipping Limited and Excepted Quantities by Air, Sea and Road

Shipping Limited and Excepted Quantities by Air, Sea and Road

Multi-Modal training for shipping small quantities of Dangerous Goods safely and correctly

A practical three-day course for people who prepare, pack, document or check small-quantity Dangerous Goods consignments. Learn how to decide whether a product can be shipped as a Limited Quantity (LQ) or Excepted Quantity (EQ), then apply the relevant rules for road, sea and air.

Bring details of your own products: the course includes worked consignments based on participants’ real shipping needs.

Duration: Two days
Assessment: Open-book final assessment

·      Per-person: £525 + VAT

·      In-house: From £1000 + VAT. Contact us for a per course quotation.

Who should attend?

This course is designed for people involved in shipping or handling Dangerous Goods in small quantities, including cosmetics manufacturers, online retailers, laboratories, warehouse teams, shippers and logistics staff.

It is suited to people who need to understand LQ and EQ requirements as part of their job.

What you’ll learn

By the end of the course, you’ll be able to:

• Recognise Dangerous Goods and establish their classification.

• Find and interpret entries in the Dangerous Goods Lists.

• Check whether a product is eligible for LQ or EQ treatment.

• Understand LQ codes and EQ E-codes, including inner and outer quantity limits.

• Apply combination packaging and tray provisions.

• Check package construction, closure and testing requirements.

• Assess mixed packing of different Dangerous Goods in one outer package.

• Apply LQ and EQ marks, orientation arrows, hazard labels and other required markings.

• Understand overpacks and road vehicle or freight container marking thresholds.

• Prepare or check relevant road, sea and air transport information.

Course content

Classification and eligibility

• Recognising Dangerous Goods and establishing classification

• Reading the Dangerous Goods Lists

• Determining Limited Quantity and Excepted Quantity eligibility

• Understanding LQ codes and EQ E-codes

• Maximum permitted inner and outer quantities

Packaging and marks

• Combination packaging and tray provisions

• Package construction, closure and testing

• Mixed packing and different Dangerous Goods in one outer package

• LQ and EQ marks

• Orientation arrows, hazard labels and other conditional markings

• Overpacks

Road, sea and air requirements

• Road vehicle and container marking thresholds

• ADR documentation and carrier information

• IMDG documentation, container/vehicle packing certificates and stowage considerations

• IATA “Y” packing instructions and package limits

• Shipper’s Declarations, air waybills and operator variations

Practical exercises and assessment

• Worked consignments using participants’ actual products

• Final open-book assessment

Contact us today to make a booking

Tel: 02380 702576

eMail: info@roadsafeeurope.com