Limited Quantities Training for Drivers

1. We are aware that some misleading information by various companies is being presented as a ‘new’ training compliance need following the closing of the training gap that existed between ADR 1.3, Training Requirements, ADR 3.4, Limited Quantities and ADR 8.2.3, Training of other personnel involved in the carriage of dangerous goods. This requirement has been clarified in ADR 2025.
   
   
2. The requirement for all employees of a company (undertaking) to receive training in both general awareness and function specific commensurate with the roles that they perform for that undertaking is not a new thing - this includes drivers who do not hold the ADR training certificate, loaders, unloaders, fillers etc.
   
   
3. It has come to our attention that some companies (undertakings) who employ drivers transporting dangerous goods below the ADR threshold values, or as Limited or Excepted Quantities, fail to provide them with the requisite knowledge to be able to deal with dangerous goods.
   
   
4. The recent tightening up of the statements in ADR, as quoted in paragraph 1 above, requires all companies to provide dangerous goods awareness and functional specific training which should include the subjects of Limited Quantities. Such training has to be recorded with suitable training records that must be kept for 6 years. All consignors, carriers and 3rd parties that engage driving services should, as part of their due diligence checks, confirm that any driver engaged with the transport of dangerous goods offered as Limited Quantities or at quantities below the ADR transport category thresholds, have received the required general and function specific training as detailed at ADR 1.3.
   
   
5. As far as we are aware there is no specific Limited Quantities training qualification or approved training body certificate that will prove that a person has reached a required level of knowledge and skill and that the inaccurate information that is currently being presented as fact, is misinformed.
   
   
6. Dangerous Goods training in both the awareness and function specific formats have always been a legal requirement under ADR within the UK. The recent misinformed call to alert non-compliant undertakings of a rule change, that has always been in existence, is further evidence that there are still a lot of people within the DG transport realm that have either received poor or no dangerous goods awareness or function specific training.
   
   
7. BADGP doesn’t conduct or endorse any dangerous goods training - but if we did, we would make sure that we got our facts right first.

BADGP Committee