Take the dangerous goods officer exam

Service Description

As soon as a company is involved in the transportation of dangerous goods, a dangerous goods safety adviser must be appointed. The dangerous goods safety advisor's training certificate must correspond to the mode of transport on which the company transports dangerous goods.

There are training courses and examinations for

  • road transport,
  • rail transport,
  • inland waterway transport and
  • maritime transport

You can take the examination as an initial examination, supplementary examination and repeat examination. For the initial examination, you must provide evidence of at least 22.5 hours of training for the mode of transport tested. If you already have a certificate but would like to extend it to an additional mode of transport, you can take the supplementary examination. For this, you must provide evidence of 7.5 hours of training for the additional mode of transport. This examination can be repeated once (without a new course). Only then will the IHK issue the training certificate for a period of 5 years. The examination can be taken for one or at the same time for a maximum of three modes of transport.

Please note the following points for the examination:

  • The duration of the examination depends on the number of modes of transport tested. It is between 100 (one mode of transport) and 250 minutes (maximum of four modes of transport) for the basic examination and between 50 and a maximum of 125 minutes for the extension examination. The duration of the supplementary examination is between 50 (one mode of transport) and 150 minutes (maximum of three modes of transport).
  • The examination is conducted in writing. You can use the relevant regulatory texts for the respective modes of transport and a non-programmable calculator as aids. The use of other electronic aids is not permitted.

If you have a training certificate that is about to expire, you can take a renewal examination. To do so, you must present your training certificate. If the renewal test is passed within 12 months before the training certificate expires, the training certificate will be extended for a further 5 years from the expiration date. There is no restriction on repeating the renewal examination within the period of validity of the training certificate.

You can take the examination at any IHK in Germany, regardless of the training center and your place of residence.

Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6Plus)

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