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TRAINING: MATERIALS HANDLING
Embracing Digital Training
to Improve Dangerous Goods Compliance
It’s time for organizations to take a more strategic, engaging approach to training using e-technology and virtual reality.
BY RHONDA JESSOP
Safelyandcompliantlyshippingandhandlingdangerous goods (DG) and hazardous materials (hazmat) has become increasing complex and challenging. This makes ensuring DG compliance across the supply chain a moving target—one that requires proper training.
For many companies, hazmat training is the single (and only available) resource for building and maintaining compliance. This puts a tremendous amount of pressure on the training to effectively achieve some critical tasks. Unfortunately, for many organizations, their DG training is insufficient and ineffective—
putting them at risk of serious operational, financial and environmental ramifications as a result.
It’s time for organizations to take a more strategic, engaging approach to training using e-technology and virtual reality.
Today’s Hazmat Training Falls Short
It’s no surprise that, according to Labelmaster’s 2019 Dangerous Goods Confidence Outlook survey, almost 76 percent of DG pros utilize training as one of their primary sources of information and guidance to keep current with the latest DG regulations.1 But
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