IRU - IRU Academy ADR

March 13, 2009

IRU Academy holds its first 2009 ADR Instructor Briefing
IRU Academy hosted its first 2009 ADR Instructor Briefing, during which participants were exposed to the IRU Academy ADR Driver Programme focusing on the last 2009 ADR Agreement, including for the transport of dangerous goods in tanks. The next IRU Academy ADR Instructor Briefing is scheduled in Geneva on 14-16 September 2009. However, regional briefings can also be organised upon demand.

February 06, 2009

IRU Academy launches ADR Training Programme for Tanks

The second IRU Academy Programme for Drivers Transporting Dangerous Goods in Tanks, excluding explosive and radioactive substances, is now available to IRU Academy Accredited Training Institutes to provide their graduates with international recognition of their comprehensive training, fully compliant with the latest ADR requirements.

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September 30, 2008

Serbian Chamber of Commerce – ATT Training Centre receives accreditation in IRU Academy Dangerous Goods (ADR) Programme

The IRU Academy is pleased to announce the accreditation of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce – ATT Training Centre, SCC-ATT (Serbia) in the IRU Academy Dangerous Goods (ADR) Programme.

Already accredited for the CPC Manager Programme since February 2007, SCC-ATT is developing its training capabilities further with this new accreditation for ADR training.

September 18, 2008

Serbian Training Centre RICO receives accreditation in IRU Academy Dangerous Goods (ADR) Programme

The IRU Academy is pleased to announce the accreditation of RICO Training Centre, RICO (Serbia) in the IRU Academy Dangerous Goods (ADR) programme.

Already accredited for the IRU Academy CPC Manager Programme since May 2007 RICO is developing its training capabilities further with this new accreditation for ADR training.

August 18, 2008

Westland Groep Training Centre (The Netherlands) receives accreditation in IRU Academy Dangerous Goods (ADR) Programme

The IRU Academy is pleased to announce the accreditation of Westland Groep Training Centre (The Netherlands) in the IRU Academy Dangerous Goods (ADR) programme.

Already accredited for the CPC Manager Programme since September 2007, Westland Groep is developing its training capabilities further with this new accreditation for ADR training.

July 29, 2008

ECOS Training Centre from Bosnia and Herzegovina receives accreditation in IRU Academy Dangerous Goods (ADR) Programme

The IRU Academy is pleased to announce the accreditation of ECOS Training Centre, (Bosnia and Herzegovina) in the IRU Academy Dangerous Goods (ADR) programme.

ECOS has been accredited for the IRU Academy CPC Manager Programme since July 2004, and is now developing its training capabilities further with this new accreditation for ADR training.

June 09, 2008

IRU Academy accredits first ADR training Institutes

The IRU Academy is pleased to announce the accreditation of Autojuhi Koolitus, ERAA (Estonia) and Federación Argentina de Entidades Empresarias del Autotransporte de Cargas, FADEEAC FPT (Argentina) in the IRU Academy Dangerous Goods (ADR) programme.

ERAA and FADEEAC FPT are now entitled to issue the IRU Academy ADR certificates. All graduates who successfully obtain their certificate will have access to private and secure web sites through “IRU Academy Online”, an internet-based application allowing graduates to promote their qualiﬁcations, and potential employers or client to verify those qualifications.

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April 09, 2008

First IRU Academy Dangerous Goods (ADR) Instructor Briefing

IRU Academy today opened the first of a series of IRU Academy Dangerous Goods (ADR) Instructor briefings. ADR instructors from Argentina, Belgium, Estonia, Serbia, Switzerland, The Netherlands and Turkey will take part in this 3-day training, which will include the latest developments in ADR legislation, with a final examination.
Future briefings will be held in Moscow (in Russian), in Berlin (in German) and again in Geneva (in English).

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February 19, 2008
Restriction for the passage of transport units carrying dangerous goods through tunnels - tunnel restriction codes of the whole load - (Section 8.6.4 of ADR)

The decision of having new codes for tunnel restriction does not take into account that the correct understanding of a code is clearly depending on the training. Now if we start to change, every two years before having a real experience and implementation with the new rules, we have a high risk to weak the aim of all the rules for the tunnels.

The training has already included the present codes as requested in the ADR 2007, so that a change of the codes would mean that, from the beginning of the application of the rules in 2010, drivers and security advisers who have been instructed between 2007 and June 2009 would not be able any more to interpret the meaning of the new codes correctly or would introduce improper corrections in the transport documents until their next ADR training (2012-2014). About a million drivers and security advisers in the ADR contracting parties would be concerned by an “incorrect training” regarding the new codes. This will just reinforce an odd situation of doubt for the actually trained drivers without bringing any gain in safety.

Consequently, the IRU Secretariat General will ask the experts of the WP.15 at the next session to keep the existing restriction codes as stipulated in the ADR Agreement 2007, click on the link in order to avoid misinterpretation of the restriction codes for persons who have undergone the mandatory requested ADR training.

IRU Members are invited to contact their national government representatives in order to keep them inform and to lobbying in favour of the proposal document of the IRU during the next WP15 session in May. We count on you!

November 7, 2007

The Working Party on the Transport of Dangerous Goods (WP15) adopted the final text on the new instructions in writing, which will be introduced in the ADR Agreement 2009. The unique instruction in writings shall be provided by the carrier to the vehicle crew in a language that each member can read and understand before the commencement of the journey. The carrier shall ensure that each member of the vehicle crew concerned understands and is capable of carrying out the instructions properly.

June 5, 2007

Brussels - The latest European Commission proposal on dangerous goods, as it is designed now, will give Member States the possibility to impose the use of prescribed routes and, moreover, to prescribe modes of transport for dangerous goods.

The IRU strongly opposes the principle of imposing the use of any specific mode of transport for dangerous goods. Not only it is anticompetitive hence questionable vis-à-vis the European law, but it will also dramatically penalise dangerous goods industries, their competitiveness, and the carriers of dangerous goods themselves.

Paul Wauters, President of the IRU’s Expert Group on Dangerous Goods (GEMD) and CEO of Wauters Tanktransport n.v underlined that, "if we continue to impose measures upon our dangerous goods sector, we have a good chance of seeing the chemical industry leave the European production plants and transfer the production in third countries. This new proposal, which imposes prescribed modes of transport on a prescribed route, will penalise the final customer and damage the industry’s and Europe’s productivity”.

The Council, which will draft a general approach for this proposal on 6-8 June 2007, must reject this damaging initiative.