Train Your Team

DOT Hazmat Training for Employers

Train Your Hazmat Team Online

Buy 5 or 10 seats, assign employees yourself, let each person train in English or Spanish, and keep completion documents organized in one dashboard.

Train 10 Employees — $390 Train 5 Employees — $220

Buy online · One-time purchase · $39/employee with 10 seats

Need one seat? Individual training is $49.

Estimated completion time: approximately 1 hour. Self-paced; actual time varies.

Preview the course — a real lesson and a sample question, no sign-up.

Team panel showing seats purchased, assigned and passed, with a list of employees, their language, completion status and links to each certificate and 172.704(d) training record Sample data
Assign each seatYou add the employee
English or SpanishChosen per person
The team panel, with sample data.

Team pricing

One-time packs. Buy online, assign the seats yourself, no contract.

5 Employees

One-time training pack

$220

$44 per employee

  • English or Spanish, chosen per seat
  • Certificates + 172.704(d) record PDFs
  • Team panel — assign seats yourself
  • Assessment included, retakes at no extra cost
Buy 5 Seats
Best Value

10 Employees

One-time training pack

$390

$39 per employee

  • Best per-seat price
  • Everything in the 5-seat pack
  • Seats can be assigned as you hire
Buy 10 Seats

Compliance

Monthly, for continuous hiring

$99/mo

cancel any time

  • Two employee trainings per calendar month, for up to 10 active employees
  • Records kept for you, ready when someone asks
  • New-hire deadline and three-year renewal alerts
  • Unused monthly trainings do not roll over
Start Compliance — $99/mo

Renewal and new-hire alerts are part of the Compliance plan. With a one-time pack the renewal date is printed on every certificate and record instead — and you can work out any employee’s date here.

  • Self-pacedSeven modules
  • English or SpanishChosen per seat
  • 80% to passRetakes included
  • Certificate + recordBoth PDFs on passing
  • Team panelAssign seats yourself

Independent training provider — not affiliated with DOT or PHMSA. What that means.

One dashboard for your team’s training records

Assign seats, see who has completed training, and keep certificates and training records together instead of chasing PDFs across inboxes.

  • Assign each seat to an employee
  • Choose English or Spanish per person
  • Track completion status
  • Access certificates and training records

Four steps, all online

Buy seats

Pick the pack that fits your headcount. Checkout is about two minutes and Stripe emails you the receipt.

Assign your crew

Add each employee with their name and language. Each one gets their own link. Unassigned seats stay available for later hires.

They train

Each employee trains at their own pace, in English or Spanish. You see who has finished and who has not.

You keep the proof

Download every certificate and 172.704(d) record from the panel, one by one or all at once.

What each employee receives

Online course

Self-paced, in English or Spanish.

Assessment

80% to pass. Retakes at no extra cost.

Completion certificate

With the score, the renewal date and a verification code.

Training record

The 49 CFR 172.704(d) one-pager, with a block for your own certification.

View Sample Certificate View Sample Training Record

Sample documents contain fictitious data.

Who this is for

If your people load, unload, pack, label, store incidental to transport, or prepare shipping papers for materials that appear in the Hazardous Materials Table, they are hazmat employees under 49 CFR 171.8 — even if nobody at your site would describe the job that way.

  • Warehouses and distribution centers — receiving, put-away, picking and staging of hazmat SKUs; lithium batteries, aerosols, paints, cleaning chemicals.
  • 3PL and fulfillment operations — packing to UN performance specifications on behalf of clients, and preparing the papers that go with the freight.
  • Shipping departments — anyone who signs a shipper’s certification, applies markings and labels, or decides how a package goes out.
  • Medical courier companies — specimens, dry ice, pharmaceuticals. The courier-specific guide.
  • Small employers with no training department — where compliance is one more thing on the operations manager’s list.

Not sure which of your people are covered? Start here. · Training two or three people rather than a crew?

Written for your operation

The tasks that pull someone into 49 CFR 172.704 look different on a dock, in a 3PL kitting cell and at a shipping desk. These go through them one by one.

Warehouses & distribution centersReceiving, put-away, segregation and the materials that turn up on ordinary racking. 3PL & fulfillment operationsWhose duty it is when the freight belongs to a client, and how to scope training across many of them. Shipping departmentsClassification, documentation, and who may sign the shipper’s certification. Medical couriersSpecimens, dry ice and why materials-of-trade relief usually does not help.

What the course covers

One course, DOT Hazmat Core Training — Warehouse & Ground Shipping (HTR-CORE-1.0), built around the training categories in 172.704(a). The same content in both languages.

  • General awareness / familiarization49 CFR 172.704(a)(1)
  • Function-specific baseline49 CFR 172.704(a)(2)
  • Safety training49 CFR 172.704(a)(3)(i)
  • Security awareness49 CFR 172.704(a)(4)

The full scope, category by category, with what is excluded →

What stays your responsibility

Written plainly, because it is the part that decides whether your file survives a question from an inspector.

You certify the training, not us.

49 CFR 172.702(b) puts the duty on the hazmat employer to train, test and certify. Our 172.704(d) record carries the five required items for the training we delivered and leaves a block for your own certification — the regulation does not prescribe a signature format, but signing documents your determination that this training fits the functions the employee actually performs.

Function-specific training must match real duties.

This course delivers a baseline for warehouse handling, shipping-paper preparation and ground loading. Cargo tank and portable tank filling, radioactive materials, explosives, bulk packagings and air shipments need more. General awareness vs function-specific.

Site-specific protection is yours alone.

172.704(a)(3)(ii) requires training on the measures and procedures in place at your facility. No online course can deliver that. Full scope and limitations.

You keep the records.

For as long as the person is your hazmat employee, plus 90 days, covering the preceding three years. Recordkeeping rules · free 172.704(d) template.

Training 5 or 10 employees?

The arithmetic, stated plainly, including the cases where a pack is the wrong purchase.

Five seats cost $220, which is $44 per employee. Ten seats cost $390, which is $39 per employee. A single seat is $49. Those are the only three prices, they are published here, and that is the whole list.

Because seats can be bought singly, the cheapest way to cover a given headcount is not always a pack. Three thresholds decide it:

  • Four employees or fewer: buy individual seats. Four at $49 is $196, which is less than the $220 five-seat pack. We would rather say so than sell you a pack you do not need.
  • Five to eight employees: the five-seat pack, plus single seats for the remainder. Five is $220. Six is $269, seven is $318, eight is $367.
  • Nine or ten employees: the ten-seat pack. At nine people the $390 pack costs less than a five-seat pack plus four single seats ($416), so the crossover happens one seat before you actually have ten. For more than ten, combine seats: the ten-seat pack plus single seats, or a second pack.
Employees to trainLowest one-time costPer employeeWhat that is
1$49$49.00One individual seat
2$98$49.00Two individual seats
3$147$49.00Three individual seats
4$196$49.00Four individual seats — cheaper than the pack
5$220$44.00Five-seat pack
6$269$44.83Five-seat pack + 1 seat
7$318$45.43Five-seat pack + 2 seats
8$367$45.88Five-seat pack + 3 seats
9$390$43.33Ten-seat pack — the crossover
10$390$39.00Ten-seat pack

Spare seats are not wasted. A pack is a one-time purchase and unassigned seats stay in your team panel, so an employer who buys ten for a crew of nine keeps the tenth for the next hire — which also keeps that hire inside the 90-day window without a second purchase. How the 90-day deadline works.

When a pack is not the right shape at all. If you hire continuously rather than training a crew once, the limit on a pack is that it runs out. The Compliance plan at $99 per month covers two employee trainings per calendar month for up to ten active employees, and adds renewal and new-hire alerts and stored records. Per head it is not cheaper than a pack — what it buys is that nobody has to remember a date. Unused monthly trainings do not roll over.

Mixed crews are handled per seat: language is chosen for each employee, not for the account, and the language of instruction appears on that employee's certificate and 172.704(d) record. The Spanish course.

Side by side

 Starter · $220Team · $390Compliance · $99/mo
Seats5, one-time10, one-time2 per calendar month, up to 10 active employees
Per employee$44$39$99/mo covers the dashboard, storage and alerts
English & SpanishYesYesYes
Certificates + 172.704(d) recordsYesYesYes
Team panelYesYesYes
Renewal & new-hire alerts——Yes
Best whenYou train a crew onceYou have ten or want spare seatsYou onboard year-round

Common questions

Can I buy training for multiple employees?
Yes. Packs of 5 and 10 seats. You add each employee with their name and their language from the team panel, and each one gets their own access link. Seats you have not assigned stay available, so you can buy for a crew of eight out of a pack of ten and use the last two when you hire.
Can employees take the course in Spanish?
Yes, and a mixed crew is the normal case. Language is chosen per seat, not per company, and each document states the language of instruction that employee received. More on the Spanish course.
How soon can employees start?
Immediately. The team panel opens right after payment, and every training link is created the moment you add the employee. There is nothing to schedule and nothing to wait for.
Can I manage all certificates in one place?
Yes. The certificate and the 49 CFR 172.704(d) training record are generated as PDFs the moment each employee passes, and both are available from the panel — individually or all at once.
How do I buy a pack?
Online, in about two minutes. You pick a pack, pay with a card through Stripe, and the team panel opens right after the payment clears. There is no contract.
Can I buy more than 10 seats?
Write to hello@hazteamready.com and say how many people and by when. Above ten seats it is usually cheaper to combine packs than to buy singles.
What if an employee fails the assessment?
They can review the material and take it again at no extra cost. The seat is not consumed by a failed attempt — the certificate is issued when they pass, with the score printed on it.
Is online hazmat training allowed?
Yes. 49 CFR 172.704 sets out what a hazmat employee must be trained on and requires that the employee be tested; it does not prescribe a delivery method, and PHMSA has long accepted computer-based training provided the applicable content is genuinely covered and the employee is tested on it. The employer still has to certify the training and keep the record. More on online delivery.
What training may still be employer-specific?
No provider can honestly promise compliance, and you should distrust one that does. Under 49 CFR 172.702(b) the hazmat employer is responsible for training, testing and certifying its own hazmat employees. This course delivers general awareness, safety and security awareness in full plus a function-specific baseline; you remain responsible for function-specific training that matches each employee's actual duties, for the site-specific protective measures under 172.704(a)(3)(ii), and for keeping the records. What stays on your side.
How often is recurrent training required?
At least once every three years under 172.704(c)(2), and sooner if the employee changes to a function they were not trained for, or if the rules governing their function change. New hazmat employees have a 90-day window in which they may perform functions under direct supervision of a trained employee. Training frequency in detail.
Does DOT approve training providers?
No, and be careful with anyone who says otherwise. DOT and PHMSA do not certify, approve or accredit hazmat training providers, and there is no federal hazmat licence for a general hazmat employee. What exists is a certificate of completion plus the employer's own certification under 172.704(d). What the certificate is and is not.
How long do we have to keep the records?
As long as that employee works for you as a hazmat employee, plus 90 days after they stop — and the record on file must cover the preceding three years. The recordkeeping rule in detail.
Should I buy the ten-seat pack if I only have six employees to train?
No. Six employees are covered most cheaply by the five-seat pack plus one individual seat, which is $269. The ten-seat pack at $390 becomes the cheaper option at nine employees, because a five-seat pack plus four individual seats costs $416. Below five employees, individual seats at $49 each cost less than the $220 pack.
Do unused seats in a pack expire?
No. A pack is a one-time purchase and unassigned seats stay in your team panel, so you can hold seats for employees you have not hired yet and assign them later inside the 90-day window that 49 CFR 172.704(c)(1) allows for a new hire.

What employers read before they buy

The 90-day ruleWhat a new hire may do before their training is finished. Recordkeeping rulesThe five items, and how long the file has to live. Free 172.704(d) templateA blank record you can use for training we did not deliver. What an inspection looks likeWhat gets asked for, and what a thin file looks like from the other side. How to choose a providerA buyer's checklist for 49 CFR 172.704 training — usable on us as well. Full price listEvery price on one page, with the lowest-cost combination for 1 to 10 employees.

Ready to train your team?

Purchase seats online and start assigning employees.

Train 10 Employees — $390Train 5 Employees — $220

Need one seat? Individual training is $49. More than 10 seats or a purchase order? hello@hazteamready.com.