How to gain a Vocational Training Certificate (VTC)

To qualify as a DGSA or extend the validity of a VTC, you must undertake and successfully complete an examination in three subjects as follows:

  • Core paper

and one mode paper

  • Road or Rail or Inland Waterways

and one of the class papers

  • All Classes
  • General Chemical Classes
  • Class 1
  • Class 2
  • Class 3 (specifically UN 1202, 1203 and 1223)
  • Class 7

You may only be employed as a DGSA in the mode(s) and class(es) you have passed, and hold a Vocational Training Certificate for.


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