Asbestos Awareness

Description

This course provides an appreciation of working in environments containing asbestos including legal implications, assessing risks, safe removal and health surveillance.

Duration

1/2 day

Course Content

On completion of the course delegates will be able to:

- Understand the legal implications of work involving exposure to asbestos

- Appreciate the different types of asbestos and describe the main effects on human health

- Appreciate the different levels of survey conducted to establish the management requirements for asbestos on the company site

- Recognise the types of product and materials that could contain asbestos

- Understand thetypes of activity that casue the release of asbestos fibres into the environment

- Understand the importance of assessing the risk for each job

- Understand and apply the necessary precautionary measures including PPE when conducting work that exposes the employee to asbestos

Certification

Rochdale Training certificate

Assessment

Multiple choice questions

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