Asbestos Training Services

The law requires that training be provided for employees likely to encounter asbestos in the workplace. Asbestos Ireland work hard to educate stakeholders about the very serious dangers inherent in coming in contact with asbestos. For this reason we have created the following courses - we hold both regular open courses and can provide privately booked courses as requested.

Designed in accordance with the requirement of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Exposure to Asbestos) Regulations and the new HSA Guidelines on ACM Management and Abatement, Asbestos Ireland can provide a course that will keep you and your employees informed, but most importantly safe.

Our Asbestos Training Services

Basic Asbestos Awareness

A 1/2 day course intended for those required to deal with or who may come in contact with asbestos in their daily work including;

  • Electricians

  • Plumbers

  • Carpenters

  • Roofers

  • Ground Workers

  • Demolition Workers

  • Architects

  • Quantity Surveyors

  • Building Surveyors

During the course Participants will learn;

  • The different types of Asbestos and where they can be found

  • The health effects caused by exposure to asbestos

  • What a basic risk assessment is and the basic risk assessment techniques

  • What RPE/PPE is and how to use it safely and effectively

  • The basic techniques of asbestos removal

  • How and why Air monitoring is carried out and how the results relate to control limits

  • Why a clearance assessment is carried out

Asbestos Awareness for Managers

A more in-depth 1 day course intended for those required to have knowledge of hot to manage asbestos within a premises including;

  • Duty Holders

  • Commercial Landlords

  • Building Managers

  • Building Maintenance Staff

During the course Participants will learn;

  • The different types of Asbestos and where they can be found

  • The health effects caused by exposure to asbestos

  • Requirements under the law and the role and responsibility of the duty holder

  • What is an asbestos survey and how to select the correct type of survey

  • Planning a survey

  • Asbestos management plans - what are they and how are they used

  • What a risk assessment is and risk assessment techniques

  • Material assessment algorithm - what it is and how to interpret the data

  • Control and Action Limits

  • What RPE/PPE selection and maintenance.

  • How Friable and Non-friable asbestos is removed

  • Comprehensive techniques of asbestos removal

  • How Air monitoring is carried out and how the results relate to control limits

  • When, where and why a clearance assessment is carried out

Respiratory Protective Equipment - Selection, Use and Maintenance

A course designed to enable candidates to ensure that they are confident in the correct selection, safe use, and effective maintenance of RPE, Including;

  • RPE selection

  • Face fit testing

  • Mask usage

  • Mask storage

  • Mask maintenance and care.