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Turuncu Kitap Consultancy Dangerous Goods Safety Consulting

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We fulfil all the obligations your business is responsible for under the ADR agreement and the provisions of the national legislation, and we meet your obligation to employ a Dangerous Goods Safety Adviser with our experienced and professional advisers.

To increase our company's effectiveness and efficiency in the national and international market, to become Türkiye's trusted and respected organisation that continuously develops its own methods in its field of expertise and leads the sector.

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What Are Dangerous Goods?

Substances and articles which, owing to their inherent properties or their condition during carriage, endanger general safety and order, and in particular property of public importance and the health and lives of people, animals and other living beings, are called dangerous goods.

All known dangerous goods are classified by UN codes.

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Who Is a DGSA?

What does a DGSA do?

Who Is a Dangerous Goods Safety Adviser? A person authorised by the Ministry through the issue of a dangerous goods safety adviser certificate, who ensures the application of ADR legislation, compliance and coordination in businesses that hold a Dangerous Goods Activity Certificate.

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Make sure that the adviser you entrust with this task holds a certificate of competence like the one below.

Main duties;

  1. Monitors compliance with the rules governing the carriage of dangerous goods. While monitoring, the adviser:

    • identifies the dangerous goods in the business,
    • ensures the procurement of vehicles for the carriage of dangerous goods,
    • trains employees appropriately for their tasks,
    • investigates any serious accident, incident or breach of the rules during loading, filling, carriage or unloading and prepares a report where necessary,
    • checks whether a security plan has been drawn up, etc.
  2. Advises the employer on the carriage of dangerous goods,

  3. Prepares the annual report of the business.

The “Communiqué on Dangerous Goods Safety Consulting”, published on 22.05.2014 under the “Regulation on the Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road”, specifies the businesses required to employ a DGSA as follows;

  • 1. Businesses involved in the dangerous goods transport process that operate as consignor, packer, loader, filler or unloader and handle net quantities of 50 (fifty) tonnes or more in a calendar year, and transport businesses with a total vehicle carrying capacity of fifty tonnes or more,
  • 2. Regardless of quantity, businesses dealing with dangerous goods of transport category zero in the table in ADR Section 1.1.3.6.3 and operating in the dangerous goods transport process as consignor, packer, loader or filler.

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