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.”