Shipping Excepted and Limited Quantities by Road and Sea

Shipping Excepted and Limited Quantities by Road and Sea

Learn how to apply the Excepted and Limited Quantities rules and consign them safely by Road and Sea

A practical one-day course for people who prepare, pack, document or check Dangerous Goods consignments shipped in Excepted Quantities (EQ) or Limited Quantities (LQ) by road and sea.

Learn how to check whether a product qualifies, select suitable packaging and marks, and prepare the information needed for transport. The course includes worked consignments using participants’ own products.

Duration: One day
Assessment: Open-book final assessment

·      Per-person: £325.00 + VAT

·      In-house: From £500 + VAT. Contact us for a per course quotation.

Who should attend?

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

It provides function-specific training for relevant duties under the applicable road and sea Dangerous Goods rules.

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.

• Determine whether goods are eligible for LQ or EQ treatment.

• Interpret LQ codes and EQ E-codes, including quantity limits.

• Apply packaging, marking and documentation requirements for road and sea.

• Check the information supplied to carriers and other parties involved in a shipment.

Course content

Classification and eligibility

• Recognising Dangerous Goods and establishing classification

• Reading the ADR and IMDG 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 requirements

• Mixed packing of different Dangerous Goods in one outer package

• LQ and EQ marks

• Orientation arrows, hazard labels and other conditional markings

• Overpacks

Road transport

• Vehicle and freight container marking thresholds

• ADR transport documentation and carrier information

• Practical considerations for preparing road consignments

Sea freight

• IMDG documentation

• Container/vehicle packing certificates

• Stowage considerations

• Practical considerations for preparing sea freight consignments

Practical exercises and assessment

• Worked consignments using participants’ actual products

• Final open-book assessment

Contact us to make a booking

Tel: 02380 702576

eMail: [email protected]