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The challenge

The solution

The outcome

Requirements

• 1. Identify all dangerous goods handled, shipped, stored, or transshipped.
• 2. Classify goods correctly by UN number, proper shipping name, hazard class, packing group, and compatibility.
• 3. Map applicable legal and regulatory requirements by mode, route, country, and customer.
• 4. Define scope, objectives, risk appetite, and governance for the strategy.
• 5. Assign roles, responsibilities, and escalation paths.
• 6. Perform a transport risk assessment covering packaging, loading, transit, security, and emergency scenarios.
• 7. Establish approved packaging, labeling, marking, documentation, and declaration standards.
• 8. Define carrier, vehicle, vessel, and route approval criteria.
• 9. Set rules for segregation, stowage, temperature control, and quantity limits.
• 10. Implement training and competency requirements for all relevant staff and contractors.
• 11. Put in place incident response, spill control, emergency communications, and reporting procedures.
• 12. Verify insurance, liability, and contractual requirements.
• 13. Create a compliance monitoring, audit, and corrective-action process.
• 14. Track performance KPIs, incidents, nonconformities, and near misses.
• 15. Maintain document control, records retention, and traceability.
• 16. Review and update the strategy regularly and after incidents, regulatory changes, or business changes.

Best practices

• 1. Verify the provider is licensed, certified, and compliant with all applicable dangerous goods regulations.
• 2. Confirm the provider has experience with your specific hazard classes, routes, and modes of transport.
• 3. Require documented safety procedures, emergency response plans, and incident reporting processes.
• 4. Ensure all shipments are correctly classified, packaged, labeled, and documented before pickup.
• 5. Use trained personnel only for preparation, handling, loading, and transport of dangerous goods.
• 6. Check that the provider maintains suitable vehicles, containers, and equipment for the cargo type.
• 7. Validate insurance coverage, liability limits, and claims handling for dangerous goods incidents.
• 8. Establish clear responsibilities between shipper, carrier, and consignee in the service agreement.
• 9. Review the provider’s compliance history, audit results, and safety performance metrics.
• 10. Confirm tracking, traceability, and real-time shipment visibility throughout the transport chain.
• 11. Make sure escalation contacts are available 24/7 for emergencies, delays, or regulatory issues.
• 12. Require regular internal audits and periodic third-party compliance assessments.
• 13. Verify the provider has secure chain-of-custody controls and theft/loss prevention measures.
• 14. Confirm the provider can manage cross-border, customs, and country-specific dangerous goods requirements.
• 15. Train your procurement, logistics, and operations teams to recognize dangerous goods risks and obligations.