Who should take this course? Any person involved in the packing or preparation of "Category A" Infectious Substances, UN2814 or UN2900. (Air shipments). This course is also for those shipping Biological Substances Category B with Dry Ice or Nitrogen. This course may be taken by those needing Initial or Recurrent training.
This course includes:
- IATA Air Shipment of UN2814 and UN2900 Infectious Substance, Category A
- IATA Air Shipment of UN3373 Biological Substance, Category B
- Exempt Human and Animal Specimens
- Dry Ice (any quantity)
- Liquid Nitrogen
- Certain other Dangerous Goods up to 30 mL per inner packaging as authorized by Packing Instruction 650
- Safety Training
Note: The DOT Safety and Security Courses are optional modules (no extra cost) that will be required for shipping Category A Infectious Substances, unless your company has already provided this training.
Scope of this course:
You must take this course if you are shipping specimens that meet the criteria of "Category A" (listed below).
Category A Any of the items immediately below in any form, whether cultured or not are Category A even if it is a patient specimen (diagnostic specimen).
- Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus
- Ebola virus
- Flexal virus
- Guanarito virus
- Hantaan virus
- Hantavirus causing hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome
- Hendra virus
- Junin virus
- Machupo virus
- Marburg virus
- Monkeypox virus
- Nipah virus
- Omsk hemorrhagic fever virus
- Sabia virus
- Variola virus
The following Category A list is for cultures only... these refer to laboratory stock cultures or similar items. It's important to note that diagnostic cultures of patient specimens can still be shipped as category B if the listing has the qualifier: cultures only.
- African swine fever virus (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Avian paramyxovirus Type 1 Velogenic Newcastle disease virus (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Bacillus anthracis (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Brucella abortus (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Brucella melitensis (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Brucella suis (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Burkholderia mallei Pseudomonas mallei Glanders (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Burkholderia pseudomallei Pseudomonas pseudomallei (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Chlamydia psittaci avian strains (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Classical swine fever virus (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Clostridium botulinum (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Coccidioides immitis (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Coxiella burnetii (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Dengue virus (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Eastern equine encephalitis virus (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Escherichia coli, verotoxigenic (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Foot and mouth disease virus (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Francisella tularensis (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Goatpox virus (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Hepatitis B virus (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Herpes B virus (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Human immunodeficiency virus (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Japanese Encephalitis virus (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Kyasanur Forest disease virus Lassa virus
- Lumpy skin disease virus (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Mycoplasma mycoides Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Peste des petits ruminants virus (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Poliovirus (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Rabies virus (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Rickettsia prowazekii (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Rickettsia rickettsii (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Rift Valley fever virus (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Rinderpest virus (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Russian spring-summer encephalitis virus (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Sheep-pox virus (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Shigella dysenteriae type 1 (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Swine vesicular disease virus (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Tick-borne encephalitis virus (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Vesicular stomatitis virus (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- West Nile virus (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Yellow fever virus (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Yersinia pestis (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
- Vesicular stomatitis virus (cultures only - does not include patient specimens)
Materials Required: When beginning the course follow onscreen prompts to download and print the student workbook. It would also be beneficial to have a copy of the current IATA Regulations. If you need a current copy, we suggest purchasing one from our recommended suppliers.
Are any additional training courses required?
- Function Specific Training- Ultimately (in the United States) your employer has final responsibility for determining if a hazmat employee is properly trained for their particular job function. Since there is a potential for limitless types of job functions as determined by an individual employer, we as your training provider can only suggest what types of additional training might be required.
If you are shipping any of the following items, additional training may be required:
- Hazardous Materials other than Dry Ice, Liquid Nitrogen or Infectious Substances
- Regulated medical wastes
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