About Asbestos Awareness Training

8 Apr 2016

Asbestos is one of the most devastating occupational hazards of all time. And despite this undisputed fact, many organisations and employers have failed to recognise and identify asbestos materials in the workplace. This puts workers, as well as building occupants at risk due to potential exposure. It is for these reasons that it is now required by law for employers to provide training and education to the employees that are likely to encounter asbestos in their workplace. Jobs with higher risk factors include electricians, roofers, plumbers, surveyors, architects, ground workers, and demolition workers.

It is vital that this training be up to date and that employees stay educated on the serious dangers and risks that are involved with asbestos exposure, and provide employees with procedures to identify, assess, and manage asbestos.

OHSS provide an onsite asbestos awareness courses for organisations whose employees are likely to come in contact with asbestos, the course is in accordance with the HSA Guidance. OHSS also run public, one day courses, for those who may come into contact with asbestos in the course of their work.

The knowledge to be obtained in these courses are simply how to identify different types of asbestos and where they can be found, health effects caused by asbestos exposure, what an asbestos survey is and how to use it, performing a basic risk assessment and its techniques, how asbestos is removed and techniques for the removal, carrying out air monitoring and reading the results to assist in control, and why a clearance test is carried out.

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