Association The newest professional body in the UK held its first AGM last month. What is it offering the dangerous goods community, and why? The British Association of Dangerous Goods Professionals (BADGP) held its inaugural annual general meeting in Cannock, Staffordshire on March 24. The meeting was attended by all but one of the committee and most of its two dozen members, as well as by a sizeable crowd of other interested experts. As it was the first meeting of the Association there was little to report but interim chairman Andy Holton, who was confirmed in die post during the committee meeting, explained the reasons for establishing the body in the first place. Chief among these is the perennial need to improve standards: the industry in the UK—as elsewhere — is suffering from a loss of expertise (although there was a healthy number of younger attendees); there is little, if any, support for dangerous goods professionals on an ongoing basis and few outside channels for continuous learning; there is not point of advocacy for the sector; and there are persistent deficiencies in the transport of dangerous goods in the UK.
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