COURSE TITLE:
ASBESTOS AWARENESS
This course is designed to ensure workers who work with or around asbestos products and asbestos containing products understand:
- Hazards associated with asbestos
- Routes of exposure
- Where asbestos is typically found and how to identify potential asbestos containing materials (ACM)
- How to report suspected exposure
Note: No safe work procedures are covered during this presentation. This is awareness presentation only.
DURATION:
2 hours
MAX CLASS SIZE:
12 Students
METHOD OF INSTRUCTION:
Classroom
EOCP CEU’s:
N/A
DETAILED COURSE OUTLINE
ASBESTOS AWARENESS
- Responsibilities – Supervisor/ worker/ company
- Hazards of asbestos
- Characteristics of Asbestos
- Typical places to find asbestos (in industry and in the home)
- Exposure limit in BC
- Difference between Low/ Moderate and High-risk asbestos work
- Respirator differences
- Enclosure differences
- Decontamination differences
- How to control exposure to asbestos
- The need for asbestos exposure control plans and safe work procedures