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Webinar:
National Dangerous Goods Awareness Day 

Thursday 9 July 2026, 13:00 - 14:30 BST

BADGP’s third national dangerous goods awareness day will take place on Thursday 9th July 2026. 

Do you ship dangerous goods? Not sure? Well this years National Dangerous Goods Awareness Day will give an insight into the transport of dangerous goods in limited quantities by Sea (IMDG) Road (ADR) and Air (IATA).

Registration

The webinar is free of charge for both members and non members of BADGP. Please register at: National Dangerous Goods Awareness Day.

Sponsorship Opportunities

If you are interested in sponsorship opportunities, please contact the BADGP Office at enquiries@badgp.org

BADGP are delighted to announce that we have published the slides and recording of our webinar, Dangerous Goods Special Provisions - Road, Air & Sea.

Presented by:

Sue Lee, DGSA

Daniel Flack, DGSA, NEBOSH

Chris James, DGSA

BADGP members can access the content from the link on the Past Events page of this website.

We have now published the April 2026 edition of our Newsletter. For more details, please visit: BADGP Newsletters.

This edition includes the following articles:

CELEBRATION – ABOUT TIME!
BADGP Committee Member Dan Lee provides an update on the BADGP membership numbers reaching an important milestone.

BADGP AGM 2026
A review of the recent BADGP AGM and photos from the event.

BREAKING THE ICE: UNDERSTANDING DRY ICE (UN1845) ACROSS ROAD, SEA & AIR
Beccy Ricketts, ADR Express and BADGP Committee member discusses transporting dry ice across the different modes of transport.

HYDROGEN - GOING DEEPER AND BEYOND THE DG CODES
BADGP Committee member Dan Lee, shares some thoughts and insights from a Hydrogen Basics course that he recently attended as part of his self-imposed, continuing DG professional development.

UNDERSTANDING DEROGATIONS, EXCEPTIONS AND AUTHORISATIONS UNDER THE CARRIAGE OF DANGEROUS GOODS REGULATIONS (CDG) 2009
Bill Evans, BADGP Committee member helps us to understand derogations and exceptions. 

THE DVSA END OF YEAR REPORT TEMPLATE
BADGP Committee member Dan Lee provides some insight into the publishing of the DVSA End of Year Report at the end of 2025 and undertakes a small comparison of it to the EOYR template that BADGP members produced in 2022.

SODIUM
To compliment the subject of the annual BADGP seminar in September last year, we take a quick look at the element Sodium and explore some of its unusual properties, hazardous or otherwise.

NATIONAL DANGEROUS GOODS AWARENESS DAY
An update on the National Dangerous Goods Awareness Day taking place on the 9th July 2026.

NEW BADGP GUIDANCE DOCUMENT
BADGP are pleased to inform members that a new CDGTPE guidance book was issued to members attending the AGM. The guidebook will be available as a download from the members section of the website from 1st June 2026.

BADGP ANNOUNCE THREE NEW FILMS (ONE PER MONTH) TO THEIR YOU TUBE CHANNEL
An update on the BADGP YouTube Channel and the films available.

ARE THERE ANY PERKS BEING A COMMITTEE MEMBER? – ASCENT FLIGHT TRAINING VISIT
BADGP Committee member Mark Hunsley provides a review of a recent Committee visit to Ascent Flight Training.

WHO ARE YOU?
BADGP are pleased to introduce you to some of the well-known ‘names’ in the industry, while they share a little information about themselves and their lives in dangerous goods. This month we introduce BADGP Vice-Chair Ken Bickell.

BADGP WEBINARS & EVENTS
Information regarding our upcoming events.

NEWS FROM OUR PARTNERS
Details of upcoming events from our Partner Organisation CHCS.

The updates to ADR 2027 has been published by UNECE available here.

We are delighted to announce registration that we have published the recording of our webinar, IATA 2026 Updates.

Presented by John O'Shea, BADGP Committee member.

BADGP members can access the content from the link on the Past Events page of this website.

The UK’s DVSA has been busy this first month of 2026. In light of DVSA’s increasing involvement in dangerous goods, in particular the DGSA exam arrangements a new layout of the DGSA exam and its requirements (syllabus) has been published on the UK Government You Gov web pages.

This is a clearer approach to the exam content, times and number of questions that are posed. New samples of a previous test paper in each exam has been provided but to date no guidance has been provided on sample answers, referencing or how the exam is marked.

The other publication  is their UK’  End of Year Annual Report Document Template for use by all DGSAs in the UK. Its use is not mandatory and it does not replace the version designed and provided for BADGP members. A full comparison of both reports will be provided in our next newsletter. 

The UK is required, as an ADR contracting party, to respond to a question at WP15 a few years ago to report on the progress and support that is provided to DGSAs. Initially the DfT reached out to BADGP for assistance which we gladly gave in the form of designing an End of Year Report template, providing feedback on the exam syllabus and creating the post exam DGSA+ programme. BADGP were asked to share with all DG professional the End of Year template and to extend the DGSA+ programme beyond its members. After consideration BADGP took the decision to keep the report and programme as BADGP member benefits.

It is good to see that the DVSA are providing template and further explanation for all DGSAs in the community but we are naturally going to state that BADGP membership provides much more in the way of developing skills and knowledge that are essential to all DG professionals.