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HE CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION (CIA) has introduced a standard syllabus for the training of drivers who regularly transport packaged hazardous loads.
1 Two-day courses are avail able at six approved training centres throughout the UK, nd these are intended to proide an intensive and compreensive familiarisation with articular aspects presented y chemical transportation. The courses do not consist f driving instruction and it is xpected that candidates will lready have considerable driving experience and ability. In a book published this 1-nonth — Drivers and the Hazardous Load: A Training Manual for Drivers of Pach aged Hazardous Loads — the CIA sets out guidelines intended "to provide drivers with an understanding of the properties of the chemicals to be handled, the regulations, codes of practice and procedures to be observed in the course of their work, and the safety and emergency procedures which should be followed."
The book is available, price £1.50, from CIA Publications Dept, Alembic House, 93 Albert Embankment, London SE! 7Th.