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UKATA Asbestos Training Courses
Asbestos still kills around five thousand people a year in Britain, more than road traffic accidents. Four UKATA approved courses, matched to what your people actually do: recognise it, work in the ground near it, carry out controlled work on it, or manage a building that contains it.
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Asbestos training is matched to the work, not the job title
Might come across it
Asbestos Awareness. The overwhelming majority of trades sit here: recognise asbestos containing materials, do not disturb them, and know what to do if you find something suspect.
Working in the ground
Asbestos Awareness for Groundworkers. Asbestos in soil, made ground and buried demolition waste, which no building survey covers and no asbestos register lists.
Carrying out controlled work
Non Licensed Operative. For people who actually work on asbestos containing materials under controlled conditions, including notifiable non licensed work.
Responsible for a building
Duty to Manage. Regulation 4 sits on whoever maintains or repairs non domestic premises, and a great many people are carrying it without knowing.
The courses
Four courses, four different jobs
The one that catches people
Awareness training is a stop sign, not a permit
The commonest and most dangerous misunderstanding in this subject is that asbestos awareness qualifies somebody to work on asbestos. It does the opposite. It exists so that people recognise asbestos containing materials and stop work before they disturb them.
Anybody actually carrying out work on asbestos containing materials, even the low risk controlled sort, needs the Non Licensed Operative course. And a large category of work, including most sprayed coatings, lagging and asbestos insulating board, can only be done by a contractor licensed by the HSE. No training course substitutes for that licence.
- Awareness: recognise it and stop. Half a day, annually
- Non licensed operative: controlled work on ACMs. A day, annually
- Licensed work: an HSE licensed contractor, not a course
- Duty to manage: the building, not the material
Live dates
Every asbestos course date we have on
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A clean, printable PDF: every date that matches, at the venues you tick, however many pages that takes. We will only use your address to send it and to answer you.
- Fri 23 Oct 2026 · 08:30UKATA Asbestos Awareness
- Fri 23 Oct 2026 · 10:45UKATA Asbestos Non LicensedBook
- Mon 23 Nov 2026 · 08:30UKATA Asbestos AwarenessBook
- Mon 23 Nov 2026 · 10:45UKATA Asbestos Non LicensedBook
- Tue 15 Dec 2026 · 08:30UKATA Asbestos AwarenessBook
- Tue 15 Dec 2026 · 10:45UKATA Asbestos Non LicensedBook
- Fri 15 Jan 2027 · 08:30UKATA Asbestos AwarenessBook
- Fri 15 Jan 2027 · 11:00UKATA Asbestos Non LicensedBook
- Thu 18 Feb 2027 · 08:30UKATA Asbestos AwarenessBook
- Thu 18 Feb 2027 · 11:00UKATA Asbestos Non LicensedBook
- Tue 9 Mar 2027 · 08:30UKATA Asbestos AwarenessBook
- Tue 9 Mar 2027 · 11:00UKATA Asbestos Non LicensedBook
- Thu 1 Apr 2027 · 08:30UKATA Asbestos AwarenessBook
- Thu 1 Apr 2027 · 11:00UKATA Asbestos Non LicensedBook
- Thu 20 May 2027 · 08:30UKATA Asbestos AwarenessBook
- Thu 20 May 2027 · 11:00UKATA Asbestos Non LicensedBook
- Thu 10 Jun 2027 · 08:30UKATA Asbestos AwarenessBook
- Thu 10 Jun 2027 · 11:00UKATA Asbestos Non LicensedBook
Nothing matches that. Clear the filters, or tell us what you are after and we will put a date on.
Dates come straight from our booking system, so this list is current. Nothing here has to be booked online: call 0330 124 2165 or email hello@acadame.co.uk and we will book you on.
Asbestos training, answered
Match it to the work. If people might come across asbestos while doing something else, that is Asbestos Awareness. If they work in soil and made ground, that is the groundworkers course. If they carry out controlled work on asbestos containing materials, that is Non Licensed Operative. If you are responsible for a non domestic building, that is Duty to Manage. Ring us with what your people actually do and we will tell you.
Regulation 10 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 requires employers to ensure anybody liable to be exposed to asbestos, and anybody supervising that work, receives suitable information, instruction and training. No specific course is named, but UKATA training is the recognised way employers meet and evidence that duty.
Twelve months. Asbestos is one of the few subjects where annual refresher training is genuinely expected, and most principal contractors check the date at induction.
Any building constructed or refurbished before the year 2000 should be treated as containing asbestos until a survey says otherwise. That is a very large share of the UK building stock.
No. Awareness training exists so people recognise asbestos and stop. Controlled work on asbestos containing materials needs the Non Licensed Operative course; licensed work needs an HSE licensed contractor.
A middle category created by CAR 2012. Still non licensed, but it has to be notified to the enforcing authority, records kept, and medical surveillance arranged. A good many employers doing it do not realise they are, and it is covered on the Non Licensed Operative course.
Yes. Awareness, groundworkers and duty to manage all work well live online, and the UKATA certificate is the same. For Non Licensed Operative we would normally recommend classroom or onsite because of the practical content.
Yes, anywhere in the UK. For duty to manage, bring your own register and management plan and we will review them during the day, which is usually the most useful hour.
Not sure which asbestos course your team needs?
Tell us what your people actually do on site and we will tell you which course Regulation 10 points at. Sending somebody on awareness training when they need non licensed operative training is a compliance gap rather than a saving.