Online DOT Training

KPA’s provides function and industry specific online DOT hazmat training to ensure ongoing compliance. We have developed DOT training courses that identify your facility specific job functions and provide you with training specific to the activities you perform. Our DOT Hazmat training focuses on the materials most commonly transported by our clients such as batteries, air bags, seat-belt pretentioners, and other vehicle components. Our training courses also ensure that the individuals signing your waste shipment transportation documents have been properly trained.

49 CFR, Part 172, Subpart H, requires that all hazmat employees who directly affect hazardous materials transportation safety be trained within 90 days of starting employment or a change in job function. A Hazmat employee requiring training is defined as an employee who packages, identifies, marks, labels, transports, prepares shipping papers or handles hazmat shipments or supervises these activities. Remember that employees must receive recurrent training at least every three years.

Hazardous Materials Regulations Overview

The Hazardous Materials Regulations, known as the HMR, are issued by the Department of Transportation (DOT) and govern the transportation of hazardous materials in commerce. The primary goal of the Hazardous Materials Regulations is protecting the safety of the public and people like you whose occupations involve hazardous materials shipments. To minimize risks, the DOT has issued specific requirements for shipments of hazardous materials. A basic understanding of the HMR is required for DOT hazmat certification.

You need to be knowledgeable of how hazardous materials must be packaged and be familiar with safety and security and the required markings, labels, placards, and paperwork, that must accompany hazardous materials shipments to ensure safe transportation in commerce.

Unfortunately, noncompliance has serious risks - a person who knowingly violates a requirement of the Federal Hazardous Materials Transportation law is liable for a civil penalty of not more than $50,000 and not less than $250 for each violation. The maximum penalty is $100,000 if death, serious injury, or substantial property damage results. Additionally, a criminal penalty can be levied of not more than 5 years imprisonment. Finally, injured parties can brin online DOT hazmat training g civil lawsuits against the offender. When hazardous materials are not properly classified, marked, labeled and packaged, they can pose significant threats to people and property. In the 1990’s ValuJet tried to avoid dealing with hazmat regulations by issuing a company policy stating that they wouldn't transport hazardous materials. In May of 1996, 110 passengers and crew died on ValuJet flight 592 after a hazmat shipper failed to declare a shipment of chemical oxygen generators to the airline. The shipment was improperly prepared and the shippers were not trained and certified to ship hazmat, nor was ValuJet trained to identify hazmat, so they failed to reject the shipment. If they had just had general awareness training they would have recognized the materials as hazardous, rejected the shipment, and saved the lives of all of those aboard the flight. That is why we see so much enforcement when facilities fail to properly ship hazmat.

DOT Hazmat training is now also available in KPA's Standalone DOT and MSDS service as well as with any of our other six levels of environmental, health, and safety (EHS) services.