Online Duty to Manage Asbestos Training for Duty Holders

Course Overview

Your organisation has a legal duty to manage asbestos and ensure the safety of all affected by your work. This course will show you how to do this in a practical way to reassure all concerned. You will find this course invaluable in giving your staff the tools to enable your business, no matter what size, to carry out its duties in respect of asbestos legislation and compliance.

Who needs the Duty to Manage Asbestos qualification?

This course is directed at those who manage non-domestic premises; the people with responsibility for protecting others who work in such premises, or use them in other ways, from the risks to ill health that exposure to asbestos causes.

Why is Duty to Manage Asbestos training important?

The revised Approved Code of Practice ‘ACOP L143 Managing and working with asbestos’ contains updated information about the requirements to manage asbestos under regulation 4 CAR 2012. The course includes asbestos awareness but focuses on compliance and how to manage asbestos-containing materials within your premises.

Course Content

• Awareness and training requirements for staff and contractors
• HSG264 the surveyors guide
• Understanding asbestos surveys
• Emergency procedures
• Asbestos legislation
• Surveyor training and accreditation
• Survey planning
• Managing asbestos in buildings

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the course, learners will be able to:

• Identify the requirements of the Duty to Manage Asbestos in non-domestic premises
• Understand the requirements for asbestos surveying and the differing types of surveys
• Outline the requirements and contents of asbestos survey reports
• Outline the requirements and contents of asbestos management plans
• Outline licensable, non-licensable and notifiable non-licensable work with asbestos and the requirements for each

Course Duration

1-day

Certification

IATP or UKATA

Delivery Method

This course is delivered online by a live instructor using video conferencing software.

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