Asbestos Awareness Training

With offices based around the UK, we can deliver our training courses anywhere in the country or we can accommodate you at our head office in Oxfordshire where we can utilise the experience of our analysts in our UKAS Accredited laboratory. Our training customers have varied from large corporate clients to facility management companies and their subcontractors. We can tailor our courses to be site specific for each individual customer.

Detail:

• Our instructors are qualified Asbestos Surveyors

• Amiantus is a partner in the H.S.E Asbestos Campaign.

• Courses are tailored to be site specific for each individual customer

• Certificate of attendance for each delegate

• Duration: ½ Day (approximately 3.5 hours)

• Delegates: Maximum of 15 per session

Prices:

• ½ Day = £475 (price is for session NOT per delegate)

• 1 Day = £850 (two ½ day’s on same day)

• Delegate Notes = £2.50 per delegate

• Expenses: 45p per mile from Oxford + £75 overnight accommodation (only if required)

• No expenses if course is held at our Oxfordshire offices

Aim:

• To provide managers, employees and subcontractors with background knowledge of asbestos, i.e. asbestos fibre types, asbestos containing materials, related dangers, management and legislation, asbestos registers/surveys and safe working practices.

Techniques:

• Instructor presentation.

• PowerPoint slide show.

• Visual aids (asbestos materials set in resin blocks).

• HSE Video/DVD ‘How are you today’.

• Open questions & answer session.

• Delegate notes (overview of course with colour pictures).

• View Asbestos containing materials in the safe environment of our laboratory if course is held at our Oxfordshire offices

Content:

The course is split into two sessions. The first session is used to raise awareness and highlight the dangers of asbestos. The second session is for awareness of the legislation in place to protect workers and employees and safe working practices for those who may come into contact with asbestos.

• Session One: Introduction and awareness: (slides, video & instructor presentation)

•  Introduction to asbestos: what is it, where asbestos comes from, fibres types, properties?

• Asbestos disease: how asbestos affects the body and various diseases associated with asbestos.

• Asbestos Products: uses of asbestos and the various materials it was used in.

• 15 minute break (time permitting).

• Video – How are you today?

• Session Two: Asbestos Legislation & Safe Working Practices (slides & instructor presentation)

•  Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations 2012

• Regulation 4: The new Duty To Manage Asbestos in the NON Domestic Property.

• Approved Codes of Practices:  what you can and cannot do without a licence etc.

• Safe working practices: PPE, methods etc.

• Review of both sessions with additional slides.

• Questions and answers.