1/2 Day or 1 Day Course
Asbestos Awareness Training & Low Risk Handling Course:
The law requires that training be provided for employees likely to encounter asbestos in the workplace. We are the most experienced provider of this training in the country and we work very hard to educate everyone about the very serious dangers inherent in coming in contact with
asbestos. For this reason we have devised the following course – we hold both regular open courses and will provide privately booked courses as requested.
In order to ensure that the risks from asbestos are controlled it is important that adequate procedures are in place to identify, assess and manage asbestos.
This 1 day course on Asbestos Awareness/Handling aims to increase participant’s awareness of asbestos and the correct handling measures to be used when working with asbestos cement products.
Course Duration & Training Delivery:
This course can be tailored to run over a 1/2 day or full day duration.
Also available via virtual classroom and e-learning.
Asbestos Control Procedures
In order to ensure that the risks from asbestos are controlled it is important that adequate procedures are in place to identify, assess and manage asbestos.
This 1 day course on Asbestos Awareness/Handling aims to increase participant’s awareness of asbestos and the correct handling measures to be used when working with asbestos cement products.
Course Content:
- Different types of Asbestos and where they can be found.
- Health effects caused by exposure to asbestos.
- What is a survey and how to use it.
- What a basic risk assessment is and the basic assessment techniques.
- PPE and how to use it safely and effectively.
- How Friable Asbestos is removed.
- Basic techniques of asbestos removal.
- How Air monitoring is carried out and how the results relate to controls.
- Why a clearance assessment is carried out.
Who Should Attend?
Those required to deal with or who may come in contact with asbestos in their daily work including;
- Electricians.
- Plumbers.
- Roofers.
- Ground Workers.
- Demolition Workers.
- Architects.
- Quantity Surveyors.
- Building Surveyors.
Certification:
This course IS NOT a qualification for participants to remove asbestos which is a role for a specialist contractor.
Further Information:
Designed in accordance with the requirement of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Exposure to Asbestos) Regulations and the new HSA Guidelines on ACM Management and Abatement which requires that, employers must provide appropriate training and adequate information for all employees who are, or are likely to be, exposed to asbestos-containing dust.
By any standards, asbestos represents one of the major occupational hazards of our time. Despite this fact that many organisations, local authorities and other employers, have failed to identify asbestos materials in buildings and it continues to be inadvertently discovered on a regular basis. This not only puts workers and sometimes building occupants, at risk but may also result in breaches of legal requirements often culminating in successful prosecutions by the H.S.A.