Asbestos Awareness

Course Overview:

This asbestos awareness training course assists employers to 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.

Course Outline:

:What is asbestos and the properties of asbestos

:Effects on health, including the increased risk of
developing lung cancer for asbestos workers who smoke

:the types of asbestos, 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