TOP 10 ASBESTOS AWARENESS TRAINING COURSES IN AUSTRALIA - PAGE 4

Construction workers in the ACT require a General Construction Induction Card (White Card) when working on a construction site. This course prepares participants for the construction site through understanding of their WHS responsibilities and the skills to identify hazards.

Participants will have the opportunity to acquire all of the skills and knowledge that they require to safely remove non friable asbestos. They will also have to demonstrate their ability to apply these skills and knowledge in practical scenarios and exercises.

This four hour session provides guidance on identifying asbestos containing materials, understanding the risks posed by asbestos and how to manage and work safely in areas where asbestos may be suspected or confirmed.

This is an essential course for anyone working in environments where they may come into contact with materials containing asbestos. This course will teach you to recognise materials where asbestos may be present, and to provide you with the knowledge to work with it, or to remove it.

Asbestos Awareness is a course focused upon providing and reinforcing asbestos awareness, and to help students to identify different types of asbestos.

Upon satisfactory completion of this course, participants will be issued with a Statement of Attainment, recognized within the Australian Qualifications Framework and issued under the authority of the National Vocational Education and Regulator Act 2011

Participants will gain an understanding of the risks posed by asbestos and asbestos containing materials and how to work safely in areas which may be suspected or confirmed of containing asbestos.

Non-friable asbestos materials include asbestos cement sheeting, often called fibro, used in many buildings before 1990. The sheeting was used for cladding, roofs and fences and can often be found as backing boards in wet areas like kitchens and bathrooms. 

This unit of competency specifies the outcomes required to remove friable asbestos containing material (ACM). It includes preparing, containing and removing friable ACM, and knowledge and application of decontamination and disposal requirements.

This course is designed to train workers to be able to safely remove asbestos, below the licensing level. It is designed to provide workers with general knowledge and does not give - nor is it designed to provide - workers with sufficient information and training to remove asbestos that is friable...