Accredited dangerous goods consultant
Dangerous goods storage licences for Perth and regional WA sites
Your certificate is the part the department reads first. We walk the site, write the risk assessment and sign the certificate — and the price is on this page, not in a callback.
Accreditation DGC-0000◆14 years on WA farms, depots and workshops◆Fixed price before the visit
“Licence applications that are accompanied by a certificate from an accredited consultant are automatically approved by the department.”
What an application costs
Our fees, ex GST, the same on the phone as on this page. The department’s own application fee is not ours to set and is not in any figure here.
Phone read of what you store
Ten minutes. You tell us what is on site, in what containers and where. We tell you whether it is worth taking further — and point you at WorkSafe’s own page either way.
$0no visit, no invoice
New storage licence application
Site visit, risk assessment, the risk control measures written up, and the accredited consultant’s certificate. One storage area, one class.
from $1,350metro site visit included
Licence amendment
The same visit, assessment and certificate for a change to a licence you already hold, at 60 % of the new-application price.
from $810one area, one class
Extra storage area
Each further store, tank, cage or shed on the same site that the application covers.
$260per area after the first
Extra class
Each further distinct dangerous goods class held on the site. We count them with you on the phone read, from your own safety data sheets.
$180per class after the first
Annual compliance walk-through
Once a year we walk the site against the risk assessment on file and give you a written list of what has changed since.
from $690per site, per year
Regional sites: travel is quoted before we book, at cost, and shown as its own line. Nothing is added after the visit.
Price your application
$1,970
new storage licence application · 2 areas · 3 classes
Your site, as the application will see it
Not to scale
Diamonds number your storage areas; their colours are drawing only and do not mark a class. “A dangerous goods storage licence is issued for five years.” — WorkSafe, Dangerous goods licences
- Site visit, Welshpool to your gate (metro)
- Risk assessment for every storage area
- Risk control measures, written up
- Accredited consultant’s certificate, DGC-0000
The department’s application fee — WorkSafe’s page links its schedule of fees and charges. Regional travel, quoted before we book. Any work on the site itself: we assess and certify, we do not build or supply.
Or lodge it yourself: $0 from us What the department says about that
How an application runs
Four steps. The first one is free and settles whether the other three are needed.
Tell us what you store
Ten minutes: what is on site, in what containers, in which shed or cage. If the answer might be that you need nothing from us, we say so and send you to WorkSafe’s page.
We walk every storage area
From Welshpool to your gate. Each store, tank and cage is looked at against what your safety data sheets say is in it, not what the old paperwork said.
Assessment, controls, signature
The department’s page lists what comes before the certificate: a risk assessment, the risk control measures, and a check that both meet the requirements of the relevant regulations. We write all three up for your application.
Your responsibilities, in writing
The same page says consultants must alert their clients of their responsibilities to the department’s Chief Officer
. You get that as a page of plain English before the application goes in.
Sites we have walked
Demo copy for this build, written the way these clients talk — not marked up as review data.
“A fuel bowser, a chemical shed and the cage behind the machinery shed. He walked all three and the certificate matched what was actually in the shed, not what was on the paperwork my father filed.”
Rhys TomlinsonMixed farm · Brookton · new licence, 3 areas
“We put a second gas cylinder cage behind the panel shop. The phone read sorted out what we were actually asking for before we paid anyone, and the amendment came in at the figure on the website.”
Dana OkaforSmash repairs · Kewdale · amendment, 1 area
“Six stores across the plant, from the solvent room to the drum yard. The estimate on the website said $3,370 and so did the invoice. The risk assessment is now the thing our insurer asks for first.”
Priya RamanCoatings manufacturer · Kwinana Beach · new licence, 6 areas
Where we go
Metro industrial suburbs get the site visit inside the estimate. Regional sites get the same work with travel quoted before we book — we group visits by region, so ask when we are next near you.
Perth metro · visit included
Industrial and light-industrial suburbs we visit most.
Regional WA · travel quoted first
Farms, depots and mine-service yards across the state.
What people ask before they ring
Where the answer belongs to the department, we quote the department and link it.
Do I need a dangerous goods licence?
That depends on what your site stores and handles, and a web page is the wrong place to decide it for you. The department’s page states the rule: A licence is required to manufacture, store, transport, supply, handle or use dangerous goods in Western Australia.
For sites, the same page says: Sites storing or handling dangerous goods may require licensing under the Dangerous goods Safety (Storage and Handling of Non-explosives) Regulations 2007.
Read it yourself on WorkSafe’s dangerous goods licences page, or ring for the free ten-minute phone read and we will tell you whether your site is worth taking further.
What is an accredited consultant?
In the department’s words: Accredited dangerous goods consultants are approved by the department’s Chief Officer to assess and endorse licence applications for the storage and handling of dangerous goods, explosives and security sensitive ammonium nitrate in compliance with the relevant regulations.
The same page says the consultant provides a certificate after conducting a risk assessment, outlining the risk control measures, and verifying that both meet the requirements of the relevant regulations. It also says there is a process for auditing the performance of accredited consultants. Our accreditation reference is DGC-0000.
Can I apply without a consultant?
The department’s page puts it this way: Companies may engage the services of an accredited consultant to more quickly progress their licence applications through the approval process.
May, not must.
What the certificate changes is on the same page: Licence applications that are accompanied by a certificate from an accredited consultant are automatically approved by the department.
If you would rather lodge it yourself, start at WorkSafe’s licences page — it links the lodgement details for a dangerous goods site licence.
How long does a licence last?
A dangerous goods storage licence is issued for five years.
That is the department’s sentence, not ours.
We do not publish how long the department takes to process an application. It is not stated on the pages we quote, and we will not guess it.
What changes need an amendment?
We will not answer that from a web page, because it depends on your licence and your site. What the department’s page does show is that one certificate form serves both: Certificate to accompany an application for a dangerous goods licence or amendment of a dangerous goods licence.
So ring with your current licence to hand and a list of what has changed — a new tank, a moved store, a new product — and the phone read will tell you which of the two you are asking for.
What do you need from me?
Your current licence, if you hold one. A rough sketch of the yard with each store, tank, cage or shed marked — a phone photo of a whiteboard is fine. A plain-words list of what is stored, with the safety data sheets you already have. Container types and sizes.
And a morning when somebody who knows the site can walk it with us. If you ran the estimate on this page, send it too: it is the figure we hold to.
Book a site visit, or the free phone read
Seven fields. We ring back inside one working day, and the first call is the free read of what you store.
Thanks — that is enough for the phone read
We will ring you inside one working day. The first ten minutes are the free read of what you store, and nothing is booked until you say so.
This is a demonstration page, so nothing was sent anywhere — your details stayed in this browser. On the real site this would land in the consultant’s job system with your estimate attached.
Rather talk it through?
Most calls start with a letter, an insurer’s question or a new tank on a truck. Have the letter or the tank’s paperwork in front of you and ten minutes is usually enough.
(08) 9000 0475- Price printed before the visit, held to after it
- Lodge-it-yourself option stated up front
- No government fee dressed up as ours
- Certificate signed only when the site meets the requirements