Guidance on the security of dangerous goods by road

The Department has produced a guidance document to help organisations deliver the new security measures. It is not intended to be a prescriptive document and organisations are free to consider other ways of meeting the requirements of the regulations.

The movement of all civil nuclear material, as defined by the Nuclear Industries Security Regulations 2003 (NISR), is not covered by the CDG security regulations and this associated guidance. The transport of such material is regulated by the Office for Civil Nuclear Security (OCNS) in accordance with the NISR.

The guidance document should give you most if not all of the information you need to implement security into your operation. This includes an ADR Cross Reference Guide which shows the sections of the guidance that are most relevant to each requirement. Annex one, two and four will be amended in due course to take account of minor changes to the security requirements incorporated in the 2007 regulations and to the site inspection checklist.

It was developed by representatives from the industry, Government and Police and agreed by our Industry Advisory Group.

For ease of reference all of the annexes in the guidance are available as separate documents and are:

Other guidance and information that you might find useful is also available: