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  • Asbestos Awareness

Following a recent change in the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006, there is now an explicit asbestos awareness training requirement placed upon employees engaged in refurbishment, demolition, general building or maintenance work, where there is risk of disturbing asbestos during the course of their work.

Training Includes:

The properties of asbestos and its effects on health, including its interaction with smoking

The types of products or materials likely to contain asbestos, (decent library of pictures)

A short video appropriate to the work undertaken by your workers

The operations which could result in asbestos exposure and the importance of preventive controls

Managers Responsibilities (how to protect workers and avoid a prosection)

Role of Asbestos Surveys and how to understand what is in them (with practical demonstration)

Safe work practices, control measures, and protective equipment, (what you can do, what you can’t do)

The purpose, choice, limitations, proper use and maintenance of respiratory protective equipment

Emergency procedures, (how to deal with an asbestos incident)

Why do I need it?

Following a recent change in the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006, there is now an explicit asbestos awareness training requirement placed upon employees engaged in refurbishment, demolition, general building or maintenance work, where there is risk of disturbing asbestos during the course of their work.

 

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