Asbestos Awareness Training

It’s now a requirement of the HSE that anyone involved in building refurbishment where their work will disturb the fabric of the building, completes asbestos awareness training.

Our asbestos awareness training course is designed to surpass the HSE’s requirements concentrating on real life applications of the course contents and how to stay safe.

Our asbestos trainers have over 15 years of experience in dealing with asbestos in a wide variety of situations, giving you the best practical advice that only comes from real life experience.

We’ve provided asbestos awareness training to companies of all sizes from individual specialists to blue chips organizations.

Our asbestos awareness training courses are always tailored to suit your needs as both a business and an individual.

Asbestos courses can be held at either our own dedicated training facility or onsite at your location.

Course sizes vary, although we generally like to keep them below 15.

We hold regular monthly courses that anyone can attend as well as being able to offer courses just for you and your employees.

Asbestos awareness training courses generally take around 3 hours (half day course) depending of the number of delegates.

Delegates can also complete works with non licensed asbestos training on the same day, making it a full day course.

Upon completion of the course, each delegate will be issued with a certificate that’s valid for 12 months as per the HSE guidance.

Topics covered on our asbestos awareness courses

Our asbestos awareness training courses include the following topics:

• What is asbestos? – What does asbestos look like? Who is at risk? The properties of asbestos and its effects on health, including the increased risk of lung cancer for asbestos workers who smoke;
• The types, uses and likely occurrence of asbestos and ACMs in buildings and plant;
• The general procedures followed to deal with an emergency, for example an uncontrolled release of asbestos dust into the work place;
• How to avoid the risk from asbestos, for example for building work, no employee should carry out work which disturbs the fabric of a building unless the employer has confirmed that ACMs are not present.
• Plus much more…

Face fit testing (a new legislative requirement) can also be bolted onto this asbestos awareness course.

This ensures masks are correctly fitted and are protecting your staff.

Asbestos Awareness In-House Training Dates

All in house asbestos training courses take place at our head office in Bury, Greater Manchester. Tel 0161 761 4424 to book your place or fill in the contact form on this page.

An asbestos awareness refresher course can be completed for those delegates who have previously completed asbestos awareness training within the last 12 months.

The asbestos awareness refresher course is approx. 90 mins in duration and costs £45+VAT per person.

Anyone who hasn’t completed asbestos awareness training in the last 12 months must complete the full course, which is half a day starting at around 8.30am costing £55+VAT per person.

Asbestos awareness and works with non-licensed ACMS can also be completed on the same day making it a full day training. Please enquire for full details.

These courses can be held in house at our head office or at your premises as and when required.

For larger groups of 6-10 people, there will be a group discount for the full asbestos awareness and works with non licensed asbestos training, so please contact us for a fixed price.

Additionally, twice a month we hold a specific in-house course for combined asbestos awareness and works with non licensed asbestos training, both refresher (half day) and full courses (full day).

Here are the details of our next in house asbestos awareness and works with non licensed asbestos combined training courses:-

Onsite training for your convenience

Can’t make it to one of our in house asbestos awareness training courses on the above dates?  Then get in touch and we can arrange to come to your business premises, as long as there are more than a handful of delegates and we are given plenty of notice so we can fit you into our busy training schedule.

Please note, if we are required to travel to you to deliver training then mileage expenses will apply and perhaps additional accommodation expenses depending on how far away you are located.

Contact us with your requirements and we’ll see what we can do for you.

Alternatively, we also offer an online asbestos awareness course. This course is ideal if you prefer to study and complete the course in your own time.

Looking to complete another online health and safety course? For more details on the other training courses we offer, please click here.

Or perhaps you need an asbestos survey? Whether you need asbestos testing, an asbestos management survey, or a refurbishment demolition survey, contact us on 0161 763 3727 or by visiting our asbestos surveys website armco.org.uk

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