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College of Pharmacy: Nuclear Online Education

DOT Training for Shipping Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT)

Training for Shippers and Transporters of Radiopharmaceuticals

We now have two courses available to meet the radiopharmaceutical industry needs:

  1. DOT Training for Highway Shippers & Transporters of Radiopharmaceuticals 
  2. DOT Training for Air Shippers & Transporters of Radiopharmaceuticals

Users will choose from a courier module, a nuclear medicine department module or a Radiopharmacy module depending upon their job function/setting. 

Upon completion a pdf copy of the DOT training certificate will be generated assuming that the user has successfully passed an exam over the material.

NEO developed a general DOT training program as outlined in CFR Title 49.  The goal of this program is to provide web-based training in the required DOT training to those working with or around radioactive materials. The online availability of this program will be essentially seamless, cover the required material, provide record keeping, and be inexpensive.

The DOT requires that any employee involved in the preparation of packages of hazardous (radioactive) material and/or the transport and delivery of hazmat packages and/or responsible for the safe transport of hazmat packages receive specific training. The training must be within the first 90 days of employment and refreshed every three years.

Note:  If you have been provided access to these DOT courses by an employer or nuclear medicine-related vendor and have questions about course access, please reach to NEO Tech Support at HSC-NEOTechSupport@salud.unm.edu. 

The course is approved for 2 hours of VOICE continuing education credits for the nuclear medicine department module only.

To purchase access to this course, you must go to the University of New Mexico Marketplace and choose the course that you want.  This is a secure payment system.

Training requirements include:

  • General awareness/familiarization of radioactive material
  • Function-specific training (transport/delivery and handlers)
  • General safety training for radioactive materials
  • Security awareness training

These courses address the Department of Transportation training requirements  for those preparing radioactive materials used in research, medical diagnosis or treatment for ground and/or air shipment by motor vehicles.

If you have questions about this DOT training, reach to UNM’s Moodle Tech Support at HSC-NEOTechSupport@salud.unm.edu for more instruction on how to register and pay. 

For corporate pricing call 501-686-6398 or email Brigette Serfaty at bserfaty@uams.edu.