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THE CURRENT PANDEMIC has forced many regulators to issue extensions to mandatory dangerous goods training validity as classroom training courses have been put on hold. This has encouraged employers to look for alternative ways of training, with online or remote training increasing in popularity. There is, however, still a perception that this approach is inadequate or that students will
Authority (CAA), Dangerous Goods Online Training Limited’s (DGOT) training courses push the boundaries in quality, design and student interaction. Being the ONLY online training provider approved by the UK CAA is a testament to this! One major advantage of a DGOT’s courses is the amount of time students spend navigating their way around the IATA
Students also have the advantage of undertaking the training in a location of their choice, at their own pace, avoiding the need to commute to a remote training site, incurring additional costs and regularly including overnight accommodation. All the training courses are designed for initial and recurrent training, with the time taken to complete each module being dependent on the competence of each student. It is also worth pointing out that the examination the online students take is the same one used for classroom training courses. Several airline ground handling agents (GHAs) have recently adopted DGOT’s training courses to enable their employees’ training to be within date. Having a requirement to train several hundred staff returning to work when social distancing requirements remain
receive inferior training. Online learning has come a long way since the days of “click and play” when you could carry on with emails whilst the training ran in the background, without any interaction required. With over four thousand hours of development time to obtain approval from the UK Civil Aviation
Dangerous Goods Regulations (DGR) as part of the learning process. This is something that is advantageous over instructor-led classroom courses, particularly as the IATA DGR is the main “tool of the trade” for those employed in the dangerous goods supply chain.
in place is impractical for classroom courses. Having access to an online training platform enables the employees to undertake the training prior to their return. There is even the option for employers to be assigned their own portal within the learning management system so they can self-administer the
TRAINING • ONLINE TRAINING HAS COME INTO ITS OWN DURING THE PANDEMIC BUT THE BENEFITS IT OFFERS ARE BEING RECOGNISED AND IT SEEMS THIS MAY BE THE FUTURE
HCB MONTHLY | FEBRUARY 2021
