Employee Hazmat Training
Hazmat Employee Training Courses
Chemtran USA is proud to offer personalized training courses for employees who regularly work with hazardous materials.
All the courses available through Chemtran are applicable and necessary to increase a hazmat employee’s knowledge, but in order to better suit a company’s needs Chemtran offers customized company courses. These courses are tailored to train employees on what they deal with day to day, creating an applicable and effective training experience.
Each course named below is paired with types of shipments and their corresponding required training. Classes are scheduled regularly at Chemtran USA’s facility in Humble, Texas.
• Hazmat Shipments by Ground – CFR 49
• Hazmat Shipments by Air – IATA/ICAO
• Hazmat Shipments by Ocean – IMDG
At Chemtran USA, we train at every skill level. Whether one is taking an introductory hazmat courses or a detailed shipment analysis refresher, all are equally welcome. Customers often find themselves needing recertification or initial training for their employees but cannot spare the time to send them to Chemtran USA’s facility.
If scheduling conflicts arise, Chemtran will arrange to send an instructor to your facility and teach the course in the comfort of the customer’s own building. Chemtran built its training program with a dedication to providing hazmat shippers with extensive employee training, meeting the requirements of the Department of Transportation.
Client surveys show Chemtran’s courses to be exciting and its trainers enthusiastic. All instructors have years of experience in the industry and a passion for teaching, a winning combination for trainees. All students who successfully complete our training class will have skill and knowledge for verifying, inspecting and completing hazardous material shipping papers. We provide hazmat employee notebooks with content directly from DOT, IATA, and IMDG training modules and each student may keep these notebooks for future reference. CD Rom and video presentations are produced and accepted by the Department of Transportation.
Code 172.704 of Federal Regulation specifies that hazmat employees must be trained in four categories, and courses by Chemtran USA cover each of the four:
1. General Knowledge and Awareness: Video presentation and discussion time customized to your business type
2. Function Specific Training: Real world examples, classroom discussion, MSDS interpretations, documentation, marking, labeling, UN performance packaging and shipment inspection procedures are the focus of this course. Includes workbook for reference materials.
3. Safety Training: Discussion and examples from Emergency Response Guidebook
4. Security Awareness Training: Software, plus discussion regarding security awareness and your role regarding shipping hazardous cargo
Test results are completed and returned to clients for their records. A certificate of completion is issued to each student upon completion of the course.