Asbestos Awareness (Online Course with Assessment)
Duration 40 minutes worth of content
Team PD eLearning
Asbestos Awareness (Online Course with Assessment)

Asbestos is bad news. You were probably already aware of that.

This course is more to give you an increased awareness of the nature and properties of asbestos and its effects on your health and, importantly, what to do if you come across them. By knowing more about asbestos, you’ll more easily avoid any negative consequences. Which can’t be bad, can it?

About the Course

Every employer must make sure that anyone who is liable to disturb asbestos during their normal work, or who supervises those employees, gets the correct level of information, instruction, and training so that they can work safely and competently without risk to themselves or others.

What type of information, instruction, and training is necessary?

This course sets out the guidance issued by the UK Asbestos Training Association (UKATA) for the provision of asbestos awareness training as contained within the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 (CAR).

Workers and supervisors must be able to recognise asbestos-containing materials (ACMs) and know what to do if they come across them in order to protect themselves and others.

In this course, you will gain the information, instruction, and training for asbestos awareness intended to give workers and supervisors the information they need to avoid work that may disturb asbestos during any normal work which could disturb the fabric of a building or other item which might contain asbestos.

It will not prepare workers, or self-employed contractors, to carry out work with asbestos-containing materials. If a worker is planning to carry out work that will disturb ACMs, further information, instruction and training will be needed.

Though hopefully, you won’t need to too often and the plan is: you’ll have fun while you’re taking the course.

Key Insights

• The properties of asbestos and its effects on health, including the increased risk of developing lung cancer for asbestos workers who smoke
• The types, uses and likely occurrence of asbestos and asbestos materials in buildings and plant
• The general procedures to deal with an emergency, eg an uncontrolled release of asbestos dust into the workplace
• How to avoid the risk of exposure to asbestos

Who is it for?

• Workers who plan to carry out work that will disturb asbestos require a higher level of information, instruction, and training, in addition to asbestos awareness.
• There will be other occupations where asbestos may be disturbed in addition to those listed:
• General maintenance workers, Electricians, Plumbers, Joiners, Painters and decorators, Plasterers, Construction workers, Roofers, Gas fitters, Heating and ventilation engineers, Telecommunication engineers, Fire/burglar alarm installers, Computer and data installers, Architects, Building surveyors.


Course format: There's 40 minutes worth of content

The course uses animated explainer videos to guide you through the material, and show the effects that Asbestos can have. There’ll be the facts and stats to back up what we expect you already knew – You should watch where you’re going.

Plus, it’s designed to keep you entertained. With new insight on things, you thought you already knew.
If that results in you thinking twice about something you previously didn’t think about at all, the course has done its job.

Pass rate: 80%

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