Irish Haz training fails to keep pace

16th October 1997, Page 13

16th October 1997

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• More than 300 hazardous goods certificates will expire in Ireland over the next three months because of government inaction on driver training courses, says the Irish Road Haulage Association.

An Eli haulage regulation was signed into Irish law on 11 July—but the IRHA says that no courses were set up to train drivers in the new requirements. Now it claims that some companies will go out of business because of the "debacle".

A Transport Department spokesman rejects the figure of 300 as inaccurate; he says only 24 licence applications are involved. "We had to replace old regulations for driver training for HazChem certificates," the spokesman adds. "Already one course provider has been approved, and more are being processed."

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