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This course takes about 40 minutes. You can stop at any point and pick up where you left off.
It is for anyone whose work could bring them near asbestos: maintenance, construction, demolition, refurbishment, plumbing, electrical, air conditioning, roofing, facilities and anyone who supervises that work. If you drill, cut, sand, lift, strip or demolish anything in a building, this is aimed at you.
The one line that matters most
This is awareness training. It does not qualify you to remove asbestos, work on it or carry out clearance inspections. What it qualifies you to do is recognise it, leave it alone and report it.
That boundary is the whole point. The people who get hurt in this subject are not usually the ones who knew nothing. They are the ones who knew a little and felt confident.
What it covers
- What asbestos is, and why a fibre you cannot see is the problem
- Where it is still found, and how to tell friable from bonded
- What it does to the body, and why it takes decades to show
- The work that disturbs it, which is mostly ordinary maintenance
- The asbestos register, and checking it before you start
- What must never be done to an asbestos material
- Who is legally responsible for what
- Air monitoring and health monitoring
- What to do in the first minutes if you disturb it
Where this applies
This course is written for Australia. The ban date, the register requirement and the removal licensing classes are all Australian. Many countries still permit some asbestos use, so if you work overseas, check the local rules.
What it is not
General information, not legal advice and not a removal qualification. It is not a substitute for your site’s asbestos register and management plan. Where it describes a legal duty it describes the general shape of it. Your regulator publishes the detail that binds you.