Labelmaster's Master Series Podcasts

Featured guests:

• James Wyatt, General Manager, aeroconcept

The strain on the air cargo supply chain shows no signs of letting up—especially with the peak holiday season upon us. Demand is accelerating, and capacities are not limitless. What’s the answer?

According to air cargo specialist James Wyatt, Dangerous Goods compliance plays a key role in helping the industry maximize its capacity. “Compliance is absolutely key to ensure that shipments are checked in accordance with the regulations and that they fly as booked within the capacity space that they have been allocated.”

HazMatters spoke with Wyatt for a special, two-part podcast. In part 1, James shared his unique insight into the remarkable performance of the air cargo supply chain.

In part 2, he stresses the need for all shippers—from the largest to the smallest—to prioritize Dangerous Goods compliance for their own benefit, as well as for the health of the entire supply chain.

“It's not just about the cost of packaging, marking, labeling, buying a regulations every year, training your staff—it's about keeping the supply chain secure and safe and that’s the ultimate goal.”

» Listen to Season 02 - Episode 03

Featured guests:

• James Wyatt, General Manager, aeroconcept

Capacity in the global supply chain has been strained since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and that strain shows no signs of letting up—especially with the peak holiday season upon us.

What role does the air cargo sector play?

HazMatters spoke with air cargo specialist James Wyatt for a special, two part podcast. In part 1, James shares his unique insight into the remarkable performance of the air cargo supply chain, a look into the near future and the role of digital Dangerous Goods technology.

“If you look at the estimated forecast of air cargo it's forecasted to grow in general at 9.5 percent this year and 5.6 percent in 2022, which are quite significant numbers,” he says. “I am very proud I have to say as an aviation enthusiast that air cargo is certainly still flying the flag from a supply chain capacity perspective.”

» Listen to Season 02 - Episode 02

Featured guests:

• Rhonda Jessop, Labelmaster Director of Global Learning
• Rob Finn, Labelmaster Vice President

Anyone involved in the transport of Dangerous Goods must have training, but forward-thinking organizations know effective training can boost an operation’s performance and business value.

As important as training is, online courses haven’t changed much over the years—until now. Labelmaster has just introduced a new, interactive training experience that reinforces what a user learns and lets them play out real-life situations in a fun, game-inspired format.

In this podcast, Rhonda Jessop describes the innovative new experience, and details how users can make mistakes in the module’s warehouse environment, so they perform their jobs more accurately in real life.

Rob Finn discusses the gaps many Dangerous Goods operations still face in their training, and how more advanced online courses can help close those gaps to gain a competitive advantage.

See the complete selection of Labelmaster’s courses available with this 3D training experience.

» Listen to Season 02 - Episode 01

Just four years ago, regulations for road transport of Dangerous Goods in South America were based on seven different versions of the UN model regulations spanning almost 20 years. A single product could be classified in one way in one country and another class in a neighboring country—so shippers had to change placards and documentation with every border crossing.

That situation is now much simpler, thanks to efforts by Diego Gotelli—Director of the Chemistry Information Center at CIQUIME—to harmonize South American hazmat regulations.

MERCOSUR, the largest free-trade agreement bloc in South America, has agreed to a new agreement based on the 17th version of the UN Model Regulations, establishing a harmonized framework governing packaging, documentation, inspections, violations and sanctions.

Labelmaster now offers an online training course covering these MERCOSUR regulations in English, to help North American shippers transport Dangerous Goods to and through South America safely, efficiently and compliantly.

» Listen to Season 01 - Episode 08

Safely transporting hundreds of millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses will be a massive and phenomenally complex cold chain logistics challenge. Distributing that much vaccine within the tight temperature and time parameters required for efficacy will be an unprecedented job.

Because COVID-19 vaccine doses need to be transported at ultra-cold temperatures to remain effective—negative 70°C or colder—shipments will require dry ice containers. And while COVID-19 vaccine doses are not considered hazmat, dry ice is governed by Dangerous Goods restrictions when travelling by air.

In this podcast, Labelmaster Senior Manager Jay Johnson, an expert on cold chain packaging and logistics, shares his insights into the challenges of dry ice transport, along with the completely different challenges associated with transporting COVID-19 test samples.

Dry ice sublimates into huge volumes of carbon dioxide, which will cause sealed containers to explode and create an asphyxiation risk in closed rooms. While pharma and supply chain veterans are accustomed to mitigating these risks, COVID-19 distribution will likely involve many people who don’t have the same training or experience.

COVID-19 test samples, unlike vaccines, are classified as Dangerous Goods. They are Category B infectious substances, and they present their own packaging and logistics challenges.

Labelmaster offers a comprehensive selection of temperature controlled packaging suitable for transporting both COVID-19 vaccine doses and test samples.

» Listen to Season 01 - Episode 07

Safely transporting hundreds of millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses will be a massive and phenomenally complex cold chain logistics challenge. Distributing that much vaccine within the tight temperature and time parameters required for efficacy will be an unprecedented job.

Labelmaster Senior Manager Jay Johnson, an expert on cold chain packaging and logistics, shares his insights into what makes this challenge so enormous.

COVID-19 vaccine doses are not themselves Dangerous Goods, but they will need to be manufactured, transported, stored and kept at ultra-cold or even cryogenic temperatures to remain effective. That means dry ice or liquid nitrogen will be involved, —and both are governed by Dangerous Goods restrictions that will impact how vaccines are transported. Labelmaster offers a comprehensive selection of dry ice vaccine packaging suitable for transporting COVID-19 vaccine doses.

» Listen to Season 01 - Episode 06

In Dangerous Goods, the focus must always be on compliance. Yet even in today's increasingly digital age, the hazmat supply chain contains many human interactions and touch points. How do DG pros account for the human factor in compliance—and how does a global pandemic affect those efforts?

We posed those questions to James Wyatt and Desiree Perez—two experts in Dangerous Goods air transport. Hear their answers in this fascinating podcast!

» Listen to Season 01 - Episode 05

With millions of workers now working from home to slow the spread of COVID-19, organizations at every link of the supply chain are figuring out new processes on the fly. And, as always, Dangerous Goods make everything more complicated.

At times like these, your technical infrastructure can make all the difference. Hazmatters spoke with Mike Graves, VP Product Management at Pierbridge, about the disruptions supply chain organizations now face—and how the right technology can help solve them.

» Listen to Season 01 - Episode 04

In 2010, a fire aboard UPS Flight 6 caused a crash that cost the lives of both pilots. Investigation of the cargo revealed the presence of significant quantities of substandard lithium ion batteries, yet no shipper of those batteries was ever held to account. Labelmaster Consulting Partner Geoff Leach has devoted his career to preventing this sort of incident. In this podcast, he addresses several important questions.

» Listen to Season 01 - Episode 03

Senior Consultant Alicia Saenz discusses the regulations governing shipments of hand sanitizer, and how shippers can most efficiently comply with those regulations.

» Listen to Season 01 - Episode 02

Labelmaster Senior Manager Jay Johnson describes the steps shippers must take to ship COVID-19 patient specimens safely and compliantly.

» Listen to Season 01 - Episode 01