{"id":22283,"date":"2021-01-23T19:43:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T19:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?p=22283"},"modified":"2021-01-23T19:43:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T19:43:41","slug":"untrained-drivers-warned-of-transporting-chemicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/untrained-drivers-warned-of-transporting-chemicals","title":{"rendered":"UNTRAINED DRIVERS WARNED OF TRANSPORTING CHEMICALS"},"content":{"rendered":"

AfricaPress-Tanzania:<\/strong> THE Chief Government Chemist Office has warned drivers who transport chemicals to abide by rules and regulations governing the transportation of the substance or else face a 2.5m\/- penalty.<\/p>\n

Untrained drivers are likely to face the penalty because they are ignorant of how best they can transport the chemicals, according to Mr Daniel Ndio, Director of Regulatory Services in the Government\u2019s Chief Chemist Laboratory.<\/p>\n

He said this during a two-day training workshop attended by about 30 drivers.<\/p>\n

Mr Ndio added that a penalty of 5m\/- also awaited vehicle owners who would be found hiring untrained drivers to transport the chemicals.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Industrial and Consumer Chemicals (Management and Control) Act, 2003 (No 3 of 2003) requires drivers to undergo chemical transportation training to protect people\u2019s health and environment,\u201d Mr Ndio said.<\/p>\n

For his part, Chief Government Chemist Acting Manager for Lake Zone Dastan Mkapa said drivers were among the key stakeholders required to know the do\u2019s and don\u2019ts when dealing with chemicals.<\/p>\n

Gapi Company driver from Shinyanga, Mr Komanya Patrick, stressed a need for conducting regular chemical training of all drivers in all sectors across the country given the fact that drivers\u2019 lives are nomadic in nature.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe keep on shifting from one sector to another due to various reasons, including searching for green pastures.\u00a0We should receive all type of training relating to road safety laws and regulations to enable us match different situations,\u201d Mr Patrick said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe sometimes work with companies where chemicals are frequently used, including mining companies. Apart from that, we can also be ambassadors in our society, disseminating chemical related knowledge to our fellow community members.\u201d<\/p>\n

About 30 drivers from the Lake Zone have attended training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AfricaPress-Tanzania: THE Chief Government Chemist Office has warned drivers who transport chemicals to abide by rules and regulations governing the transportation of the substance or else face a 2.5m\/- penalty. Untrained drivers are likely to face the penalty because they are ignorant of how best they can transport the chemicals, according to Mr Daniel Ndio, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":22252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12],"tags":[1347,5877,7074],"class_list":["post-22283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-chemist","tag-daniel-ndio","tag-komanya-patrick"],"yoast_head":"\nUNTRAINED DRIVERS WARNED OF TRANSPORTING CHEMICALS - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"THE Chief Government Chemist Office has warned drivers who transport chemicals to abide by rules and regulations governing the transportation\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/untrained-drivers-warned-of-transporting-chemicals\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UNTRAINED DRIVERS WARNED OF TRANSPORTING CHEMICALS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"THE Chief Government Chemist Office has warned drivers who transport chemicals to abide by rules and regulations governing the transportation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/untrained-drivers-warned-of-transporting-chemicals\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tanzania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-01-23T19:43:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/01\/9f44ad45d3e4a469dac867bba226a150.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"528\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/untrained-drivers-warned-of-transporting-chemicals#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/untrained-drivers-warned-of-transporting-chemicals\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"UNTRAINED DRIVERS WARNED OF TRANSPORTING CHEMICALS\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-01-23T19:43:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/untrained-drivers-warned-of-transporting-chemicals\"},\"wordCount\":288,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/untrained-drivers-warned-of-transporting-chemicals#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/01\/9f44ad45d3e4a469dac867bba226a150.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Chemist\",\"Daniel Ndio\",\"Komanya Patrick\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/untrained-drivers-warned-of-transporting-chemicals#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/untrained-drivers-warned-of-transporting-chemicals\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/untrained-drivers-warned-of-transporting-chemicals\",\"name\":\"UNTRAINED DRIVERS WARNED OF TRANSPORTING CHEMICALS - Tanzania\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/untrained-drivers-warned-of-transporting-chemicals#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/untrained-drivers-warned-of-transporting-chemicals#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/01\/9f44ad45d3e4a469dac867bba226a150.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-01-23T19:43:41+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"THE Chief Government Chemist Office has warned drivers who transport chemicals to abide by rules and regulations governing the transportation\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/untrained-drivers-warned-of-transporting-chemicals#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/untrained-drivers-warned-of-transporting-chemicals\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/untrained-drivers-warned-of-transporting-chemicals#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/01\/9f44ad45d3e4a469dac867bba226a150.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/01\/9f44ad45d3e4a469dac867bba226a150.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":528},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/untrained-drivers-warned-of-transporting-chemicals#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"UNTRAINED DRIVERS WARNED OF TRANSPORTING CHEMICALS\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/\",\"name\":\"Tanzania\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"UNTRAINED DRIVERS WARNED OF TRANSPORTING CHEMICALS - Tanzania","description":"THE Chief Government Chemist Office has warned drivers who transport chemicals to abide by rules and regulations governing the transportation","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/untrained-drivers-warned-of-transporting-chemicals","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"UNTRAINED DRIVERS WARNED OF TRANSPORTING CHEMICALS","og_description":"THE Chief Government Chemist Office has warned drivers who transport chemicals to abide by rules and regulations governing the transportation","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/untrained-drivers-warned-of-transporting-chemicals","og_site_name":"Tanzania","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2021-01-23T19:43:41+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":528,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/01\/9f44ad45d3e4a469dac867bba226a150.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/untrained-drivers-warned-of-transporting-chemicals#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/untrained-drivers-warned-of-transporting-chemicals"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"UNTRAINED DRIVERS WARNED OF TRANSPORTING CHEMICALS","datePublished":"2021-01-23T19:43:41+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/untrained-drivers-warned-of-transporting-chemicals"},"wordCount":288,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/untrained-drivers-warned-of-transporting-chemicals#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/01\/9f44ad45d3e4a469dac867bba226a150.jpg","keywords":["Chemist","Daniel Ndio","Komanya Patrick"],"articleSection":["all news","homepage-english","policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/untrained-drivers-warned-of-transporting-chemicals#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/untrained-drivers-warned-of-transporting-chemicals","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/untrained-drivers-warned-of-transporting-chemicals","name":"UNTRAINED DRIVERS WARNED OF TRANSPORTING CHEMICALS - Tanzania","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/untrained-drivers-warned-of-transporting-chemicals#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/untrained-drivers-warned-of-transporting-chemicals#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/01\/9f44ad45d3e4a469dac867bba226a150.jpg","datePublished":"2021-01-23T19:43:41+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"THE Chief Government Chemist Office has warned drivers who transport chemicals to abide by rules and regulations governing the transportation","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/untrained-drivers-warned-of-transporting-chemicals#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/untrained-drivers-warned-of-transporting-chemicals"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/untrained-drivers-warned-of-transporting-chemicals#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/01\/9f44ad45d3e4a469dac867bba226a150.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/01\/9f44ad45d3e4a469dac867bba226a150.jpg","width":1024,"height":528},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/untrained-drivers-warned-of-transporting-chemicals#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"UNTRAINED DRIVERS WARNED OF TRANSPORTING CHEMICALS"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/","name":"Tanzania","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}