Logistics and warehousing — a participant, not a bystander
Client pallets with aerosols, paints, batteries and diesel pass through your terminal every day. A warehouse does not just store — the one who loads, unloads or packs dangerous goods is a full participant under chapter 1.4, with duties of its own.
A company that loads, unloads or packs dangerous goods must appoint a safety adviser — even if none of its own trucks ever leaves the yard.
This is what you already ship
Typical dangerous goods of the industry — with the real Table A entries. Tap any card to open the full UN page in our reference.
Class 3UN 1202, GAS OIL or DIESEL FUEL or HEATING OIL, LIGHT
Diesel fuel — yard equipment, client shipments
LQ 5 L
Class 2UN 1950, AEROSOLS, flammable
Aerosols — consumer goods pallets in cross-dock
LQ 1 L / 120 ml
Class 9UN 3481, LITHIUM ION BATTERIES CONTAINED IN EQUIPMENT or LITHIUM ION BATTERIES PACKED WITH EQUIPMENT
Lithium-ion batteries in equipment — electronics flows
LQ 0
Class 3UN 1263, PAINT
Paint — retail and construction consignments
LQ 500 ml / 5 L
Class 8UN 2794, BATTERIES, WET, FILLED WITH ACID, electric storage
Wet acid batteries — starter battery distribution
LQ 1 L
Class 9UN 3082, ENVIRONMENTALLY HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE, LIQUID, N.O.S.
Environmentally hazardous liquids — oils, additives
LQ 5 L
Three ways your goods can travel
The same product can go as limited quantities, under the 1.1.3.6 partial exemption or in full ADR — the classification and the packaging decide.
Limited quantities (LQ)
Small inner packagings within the column 7a limit, up to 30 kg gross — the goods travel with the LQ diamond, free of most other ADR provisions (Chapter 3.4).
Partial exemption (1.1.3.6)
Below the transport category threshold per transport unit — no orange plates, no written instructions, no ADR driver certificate (the list in 1.1.3.6.2).
Full ADR
Above the thresholds the goods travel under the full set of rules — transport document, plates and labels, equipment, trained crew and every participant duty.
The same paint from your racks travels three ways — small tins go as LQ with the diamond, a pallet of buckets may fit under 1.1.3.6, and drums on an exchange pallet ship in full ADR with an ADR driver.
Who answers for what
ADR splits the duties among the participants of the carriage. These are the roles your company typically holds — with the exact ADR paragraphs.
Carrier
Checks before departure that the documents are on board, the vehicle and load show no defects or leaks, the plates and equipment are in place.
Loader
Checks packagings for damage before handing over, observes the mixed-loading prohibitions and the separation from foodstuffs.
Unloader
Compares the transport document with what actually arrived before unloading.
Consignor
Hands over only consignments that conform to ADR — classified, authorized, in approved packagings, with the transport documents furnished to the carrier.
For each of these roles the company needs an appointed safety adviser (1.8.3.1) — ours works on subscription.
About the DGSAWhat a mistake costs
One pallet accepted without checking the papers — the sums below are what national law charges for it.
Sanctions are national — checks are European
Every ADR country sets its own fines for dangerous goods violations. Roadside checks follow one European standard — Directive (EU) 2022/1999 with a common list of infringements by risk category. Open your country to see the authorities and the exact amounts.
Find your countryAnd beyond the fines
- A vehicle stopped at a roadside check — with your customer waiting for the delivery
- An incident with an untrained crew — and an insurer reading the file closely
- Violations on record — and inspections coming back more often
What the law expects from you
ADR duties come first — and your industry carries its own EU rules on top.
Under ADR
- Classify every product before it is handed over for carriage
- Train everyone who touches dangerous goods (Chapter 1.3)
- Appoint a safety adviser — carriers, consignors, loaders, packers alike
- Mark, document and equip every consignment correctly
EU rules of the industry
Directive 2008/68/EC — inland transport of dangerous goods
Extends ADR to domestic carriage across the EU. A run between two warehouses inside one country lives under the same rules as an international haul.
Seveso III — Directive 2012/18/EU
Major accident prevention. A warehouse holding stocks above the thresholds lives under a second regime on top of ADR — storage and carriage are checked by different authorities.
CLP — Regulation (EC) 1272/2008
Classification and labelling for the market. CLP pictograms and ADR classes are two systems for one and the same product on your rack — and they do not match one to one.
The industry in numbers
Is this about you?
If even one line matches your operation — it is worth a conversation.
- Pallets with LQ diamonds or danger labels pass through your cross-dock
- Clients hand over aerosols, paints or batteries for storage
- Your people load and secure dangerous goods that belong to others
- The WMS does not separate dangerous positions from ordinary stock
- Nobody in the company is formally appointed as the safety adviser
Our solutions
Clients bring you every class at once — our system keeps each flow in its regime.
Cargo instruction with the transport document entry
Classification, the carriage regime and the ready transport document entry — for a specific cargo.
from €50 / document
A consultant on subscription
A certified safety adviser, the appointment notice and the platform — from €50 a month plus €10 per consignment.
ADRplus One
Train the team
Chapter 1.3 courses online, in your languages — at your own pace, with certificates.
Course is being updated
ADR compliance audit
A remote compliance audit with a report — where you stand and what to fix first.
€290
Questions from the industry
Have a different question?
Contact the consultantWe only store and tranship, we do not drive — is ADR not about transport?
ADR is about the chain, and chapter 1.4 lists the loader and the unloader among its participants. A company performing loading, unloading or packing must appoint a safety adviser — the trucks may be someone else’s, the duties are yours.
Is the carrier not the one who answers for everything?
No. Each participant answers for its own link — the consignor for classification and papers, the loader for loading, the carrier for the run. An inspector reads the roles, not the logo on the truck.
A client did not tell us there were dangerous goods in the pallet — whose problem is that?
The consignor answers for the information, but an undetected dangerous good stays dangerous inside your building. We set up goods acceptance so that a dangerous position is recognised at the gate — labels, papers, WMS flag — and does not slip through unnoticed.
Where do we start?
Send the list of goods groups you handle — we prepare the cargo instruction with the transport document entry from €50 per document and map which flows put you in which role. From there the subscription from €50 + €10 per transport covers the adviser, the platform and the training of your people.
Tell us how your goods move
Within one working day you get a clear answer — what applies to you, what does not, and what it costs to be in order.