Dangerous Goods Shipping Qualification

Dangerous Goods Shipping – Perfume and Perfumery Materials

This one-day, in-person course focuses on the safe and legal shipping of perfume and perfumery materials, which are classified as dangerous goods.

As long as you achieve 80% or over in the one hour exam, you will qualify to ship perfume.

The course is run by Geoff Leach from The Dangerous Goods Office, who also created it specially for 4160Tuesdays, so we don't have to take the full DG qualification - a three day course and sit a three hour exam. Geoff is the top man in UK dangerous goods shipping and actually wrote the book, the real one that we shall be working from. He will personally teach the course and supervise the exam.

At 4160 Tuesdays We are qualified to ship dangerous goods, but we are not qualified to teach the course or assess the exam ourselves, which is why we worked with Geoff to create this day for us. The exam is "open book", because DG shipping centres on being able to find the right information in the IATA  book - which you can borrow from Geoff or buy for the exam - to fill in the forms needed to ship a parcel.

Geoff will take us through how to find the information we need, and how to fill in the forms and other documents, which is what the exam will be testing.

• We run the course at the beautiful Hammersmith Quaker Meeting House, just a minute away from the studio. We include sushi and pizza at lunch time, as well and tea & coffee.

Course details

• Duration: One full day
• Dates: 1 June or 2 June
• Time: 9.30 – 5.00
• Location: Hammersmith Quaker Meeting House
• Assessment: One-hour exam

Training and assessment are completed on the day. Results and certificates follow.

What the course does NOT include - so please don't ask Geoff

• Any details on what fragrance can or cannot contain: e.g. IFRA or EU regulations
• International Insurance
• How to get a contract with a courier company
• Which courier companies are best
• Where to buy packaging materials
• Customs and tariffs

We mention this because at previous courses, some people have raised issues which are beyond Geoff's scope and this has held up the class's progress. For perfumery issues, please ask Sarah and Nick at the end or during breaks.

On Wednesday 3nd June we will also run a Brick Walls & Flaming Hoops course which will cover all these practical issues, so if you would like to attend that course too, let us know.

The price includes VAT and we can issue you with a VAT invoice on request.