Resolution of March 13, 2012, from the Directorate-General for Employment, registering and publishing the II General Agreement for Road Freight Transport Companies.
Ministry of Employment and Social Security
Rank: Resolution
Published in: Official State Gazette number 76 of 03/29/2012, pages 26434 to 26465 (32 pages).
Reference: BOE-A-2012-4367
http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2012/03/29/pdfs/BOE-A-2012-4367.pdf
Article 16. Group III: Movement Staff.
16.6 Specific obligations of drivers, common to professional categories 16.4 and 16.5: In addition to the general duties of a driver, previously listed, which constitute routine work, they shall perform those resulting from customs and the nature of the service they provide, and must have the required training when handling hazardous goods. The following are merely indicative:
16.6.A When driving tanker vehicles, they shall carry out the following tasks regarding their own vehicle:
a) Inspect the condition, cleanliness, and maintenance of the tankers and their accessories, such as pipes, loading and unloading ports, valves, pressure gauges, elevators, heaters, discharge pumps, and similar equipment.
b) Connect and disconnect loading and unloading hoses, open and close valves, control filling and emptying, even climbing to the top of the tanks if necessary; and carry out the purging of the tanks’ reservoirs before unloading, in order to avoid product contamination in customers’ tanks.
c) Monitor pressures and depressurize using masks and other safety equipment provided.
d) If the tanks contain gases, they must monitor pressures and verify, once the loading and/or unloading operation is completed, the tightness of the tanker’s valves, as well as whether the loaded quantity corresponds to the authorized maximum weights.
Article 64. Driver Refresher Training.
Training courses aimed at renewing the Certificate of Professional Aptitude (CAP) and the dangerous goods (ADR) license shall be provided by the companies using their own resources or by contracting external services.
The cost of the training shall be borne by the companies. The time spent by workers for this purpose shall be counted as paid leave established in article 23.3 of the Workers’ Statute, as amended by Royal Decree-Law 3/2012, of February 10.
Workers who do not pass the renewal exams for the authorization to drive vehicles transporting dangerous goods shall have their employment contract suspended for a maximum period of six months, during which they must obtain said authorization.