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Asbestos awareness training is important health and safety knowledge that is delivered to professionals who may come across asbestos in their everyday work.
The training contains important information on:
The Health and Safety Executive asserts that employers must ensure that any employee who is likely to encounter asbestos during their everyday work – and their supervisors – should receive asbestos awareness training. This is a legal requirement set out by the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012.
This training is crucial to not only protect workers themselves but to also reduce risk to others in the surrounding area.
Professionals who routinely carry out work in or around buildings can include:
These professionals can be full-time employees, contractors or self-employed.
It’s important to note that asbestos awareness training is not for those who remove asbestos. This requires much more specific, in-depth training.
The ability to identify asbestos in the working environment is important in reducing risk to people and spaces. While the use of asbestos in the home and at work was extensive for a hundred years, we now know that its effect on the lungs when inhaled can be devastating, and symptoms often don’t appear until decades after exposure. Despite the ban in 1999, asbestos is still present in many older buildings and this is the risk that the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 aims to manage.
As it’s so likely that buildings built before 2000 contain asbestos, it’s vital that anyone who will probably disturb the fabric of a building with maintenance, repairs, renovation or retrofitting, can identify asbestos and knows the action to take in order to keep themselves and others safe. Without this important knowledge, unnecessary risk occurs, safety is compromised and reputations are damaged.
The United Kingdom Asbestos Training Association (UKATA) and the Independent Asbestos Training Providers (IATP) are two of the most widely-recognised, non-profit training associations that deliver asbestos training, including asbestos awareness training.
At Environtec we offer a range of asbestos training courses, including asbestos awareness. Our trainers can deliver this UKATA-certified course at your premises, at our training facilities, or you can complete the course online.
Asbestos awareness training is a half day course and trainees answer multiple-choice questions to assess their knowledge. Those who successfully complete the training receive a UKATA Asbestos Awareness Training Certificate of Competence and Achievement, alongside a photo ID card verifying their competence that is valid for 12 months.
Why not formalise your team’s asbestos awareness and compliance? Read more and book today with Environtec
Environtec Ltd is a UKAS accredited testing laboratory (No. 0197) and inspection body (No. 2030).
Environtec is only UKAS accredited for Asbestos Inspection and Testing (excluding Soil Testing & Analysis)
