H13u—Radioactive Materials Shipping for Transportation Intermediaries H13u—Radioactive Materials Shipping for Transportation Intermediaries
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Non-subscriber price: $135.00, Subscriber price: $95.00
Estimated total study time: 5 hours 1 minute
This course provides more in-depth training in the handling of radioactive materials as air cargo. It is designed to supplement normal hazmat employee certification training for shipper, forwarders and carrier personnel for those who individuals or may become involved in preparing, documenting, arranging or handling radioactive shipments.
Important:This course is not "stand alone" dangerous goods training; it assumes the learner already has completed dangerous goods training suitable to his/her job responsibilities with respect to general awareness, function specific, safety and security requirements. With respect to certification training taken via GISTnet, course H4u, or H2u+H10u, should be completed prior to this course.
Practical exercises in this course require access to the current edition of the IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations or the ICAO Technical Instructions.
This lesson begins our coverage of radioactive materials, a unique type of hazard requiring specialized means for determining maximum quantity which can be tendered to an air carrier, plus specialized packaging, marking, labeling and documentation requirements.
(Estimated study time: 59 minutes)
In this lesson you will learn what makes a shipment subject to dangerous goods regulation as "radioactive materials" (Class 7), and limitations on radioactive materials that can be shipped by air.
(Estimated study time: 1 hour 15 minutes)
There are strict limits to the quantity of radioactive materials that can be shipped by air. This lesson addresses how this complex determining is made based on computation of the radioactive "transport index" for the particular consignment, with consideration of "external surface radiatoion" and "critical safety index."
(Estimated study time: 46 minutes)
As with all dangerous goods, radioactive materials must be safely packaged according to specific standards specified in the applicable regulations and Packing Notes. Packaging requirements for radioactive materials ae among the most rigorous for any type of material, and for the more dangerous types of radioactive shipemnts, may be subject to specific case-by-case packaging approvals from the national authorities and carriers involved.
(Estimated study time: 1 hour 14 minutes)
This last lesson covers shipments of certian very low actifity radioactive materials which can be shipped under "excepted package" rules. We also address shipping documentation for radioactive materials and particular concerns a freight forwarder should have when arranging the shipment of dangerous goods, particularly Category II and III.
(Estimated study time: 45 minutes)