- 1.3
- The chapter of ADR-S that sets the training requirement
- 9
- Hazard classes to recognise and keep apart
- By role
- The training follows what the person actually does
Most road and civil engineering contracts transport dangerous goods without thinking of it as dangerous goods: fuel out to the machines, LPG for the asphalt work, a pallet of lithium batteries back to the supplier. The requirement in ADR-S chapter 1.3 applies to everyone involved in the transport, and you are involved the moment you decide what goes on the package.
What the training gives you
- When ADR-S applies, and why chapter 1.3 in particular places a requirement on you.
- The nine hazard classes and how UN numbers are used.
- The connection between classification, packaging, labelling and documentation.
- Who does what: consignor, packer, loader, unloader and driver.
- The exemptions businesses actually rely on, and where they run out.
ADR 1.3 is not an ADR driver certificate
The two are frequently confused and they are different things. 1.3 is the role-specific training required of everyone involved in the transport. The ADR driver certificate is an official certificate for drivers carrying dangerous goods above the exemption thresholds, and it is issued after examination. Holding one is not holding the other.
Choose the variant by what the person does
The requirement in 1.3 is that the training matches what the person does. Whoever fills in the transport document needs something different from whoever secures the load, and whoever sends a pallet off needs something different from whoever receives it. That is why the training exists in role-specific variants rather than as a single general course — go through which steps you actually perform before choosing.
Common questions
- We only carry small quantities of diesel in jerrycans. Does it apply to us?
- Often yes, in some form. There are exemptions for limited quantities and for certain ways of transporting, but the exemptions have conditions and somebody has to know them. That knowledge is exactly what 1.3 is about.
- Who in the business needs it?
- Everyone whose duties touch the transport: whoever orders and classifies, whoever packs and labels, whoever loads and unloads, whoever writes the documents and whoever drives.
- How often does it have to be retaken?
- The training has to be kept current with refreshers, and there is a refresher variant for anyone who has already taken it. The date on the participant's certificate is what governs.
Not sure which variants you need?
Describe what you transport and who does what, and we will tell you which variants that corresponds to.
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