Security amendments affect X-ray equipment and sniffer dogs

Unless your X-ray
equipment used for
cargo checking gets SA
Civil Aviation Authority
(Sacaa) approval, you’ll
have to get new approved
equipment or find an
alternative means of
checking the cargo
consignments.
That will be a result of
one of the amendments
to the Part 108 security
regulations – which have
now been completed,
published, passed through
the CARcom process, and
are expected to be signed
by minister of transport,
Sibusiso Ndebele, during
the next two months.
One of them demands
that the technical
specifications of all X-ray
equipment must be passed
by Sacaa before they can
be used.
Another of the critical
amendments covers
explosive detection dogs,
according to Bob Garbett,
MD of Professional Risk
and Asset Management.
“This,” he told FTW,
“relates to the training
of dogs in their security
role. Before there were no
requirements laid down,
but the new amendment
defines the basic
requirements in a very
precise manner.”