Asbestos Awareness is run on demand — tell us when you'd like to attend and where, and we'll arrange a date and venue that works for you. Single delegates and group bookings both welcome.
Asbestos remains the biggest occupational killer in the UK, and the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 require every employer whose workers could disturb asbestos to provide awareness training. That net is wide: any building constructed or refurbished before the year 2000 may contain asbestos, so the trades that drill, cut, chase and lift, from electricians and plumbers to joiners, decorators and general builders, all fall within the duty.
This is Category A awareness training: it teaches you to recognise the risk and avoid disturbing asbestos, not to work with it. The course covers what asbestos is and why it kills, the products and places where it hides, from insulation boards and pipe lagging to textured coatings and floor tiles, what to do if you think you have found or disturbed it, and how the duty to manage asbestos in buildings works in practice. Delivered by an IATP-recognised provider, typically as a half-day course, classroom or online.
Awareness training is not a licence to work on asbestos: anything beyond avoiding it needs non-licensed or licensed work training. Architects and designers have their own version of the course, Asbestos Awareness for Architects and Designers, focused on design-stage duties. Asbestos also features in the wider site safety syllabus on SMSTS and CITB Health and Safety Awareness. Browse related courses under health and safety training.
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