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UKATA Asbestos Awareness in Liverpool
Half a day at our Liverpool centre in Widnes. The annual UKATA certificate trades need before they open up anything built before the year 2000.
About this course
The people dying of asbestos disease today were exposed by ordinary work years ago, often without ever knowing it happened. That is what makes recognition the whole point of this course.
Regulation 10 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 requires suitable information, instruction and training for anybody liable to be exposed. Awareness training is how most employers meet and evidence that, and the UKATA certificate is what a site asks to see.
Widnes is convenient for Merseyside, Cheshire and north Wales, and much of the housing and commercial stock across that area predates the 2000 ban comfortably.
The centre is Kingsway House, Caldwell Road, Widnes WA8 7EA. Widnes sits by the Silver Jubilee and Mersey Gateway crossings, minutes from the A557 and the M62, with Widnes and Hough Green stations nearby.
We draw candidates from Widnes, Runcorn, St Helens, Warrington, Speke, Halewood, Knowsley, Ellesmere Port and the wider Merseyside and north Cheshire area. If a date at Liverpool does not suit, the same course runs at our other centres and we can deliver it at your own premises anywhere in the UK.
- What asbestos is, the three main types, and why it was used so widely
- The properties that made it useful and the properties that make it lethal
- Asbestos related diseases: asbestosis, lung cancer, mesothelioma and pleural thickening
- Why the risk to smokers is so much higher than the risk to non smokers
- The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012, and Regulation 10 in particular
- Where asbestos containing materials are likely to be found in buildings
- Why any building constructed or refurbished before 2000 has to be assumed suspect
- Reading an asbestos register and a refurbishment and demolition survey
- Recognising damaged or deteriorating asbestos containing materials
- What to do if you find or disturb something suspect: stop, prevent access, report
- Emergency procedures following an accidental disturbance
How completing this course helps you
- A UKATA asbestos awareness certificate, valid for one year
- Trades who stop rather than carry on when something looks suspect
- Evidence that your Regulation 10 information, instruction and training duty has been met
- The certificate principal contractors and clients ask for by name at induction
Who should attend?
Trades across Merseyside, Cheshire and north Wales whose work could disturb asbestos: electricians, plumbers and gas engineers, joiners, plasterers, roofers, shopfitters, telecoms engineers, demolition operatives, surveyors and maintenance teams.
Entry requirements. None. No previous asbestos training is needed.
Ready to take the next step?
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At Liverpool
What to expect on the day
The course is the same wherever you sit it. What changes is the room, the journey and the people in it, and those matter more than providers usually admit.
Our Liverpool centre is Kingsway House, Caldwell Road, Widnes WA8 7EA. Widnes sits by the Silver Jubilee and Mersey Gateway crossings, minutes from the A557 and the M62, with Widnes and Hough Green stations nearby. Joining instructions go out ahead of the course with timings, what to bring and where to go when you arrive.
If you are booking for a group and travel is the problem, we deliver this course at employers’ own premises anywhere in the country. For six or more people that is usually cheaper per head and nobody loses a day on the road.
Before the day
Joining instructions with timings, the address and what to bring. Tell us at booking if anybody needs support with reading, writing or access and we will sort it quietly.
On the day
Arrive a few minutes early. Bring photographic identification, which most awarding bodies require before they will certificate you.
Afterwards
We tell you the outcome and handle the registration and certification with the awarding body. If anything needs resitting we will get it booked.
Course content
What you will cover
The qualification is structured around the management of health and safety and the practical application of risk assessment.
Asbestos and health
- What asbestos is and the three main types
- Why it was used and where it went
- Asbestos related diseases and their latency
- The multiplying effect of smoking
- Who is being exposed today, and how
Finding it before you disturb it
- The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 and Regulation 10
- Duty to manage, and the asbestos register
- Management surveys and refurbishment and demolition surveys
- Common locations of asbestos containing materials
- Buildings built or refurbished before 2000
- Recognising damage and deterioration
What to do about it
- Stopping work and preventing access
- Who to report to and what to record
- Emergency procedures after an accidental disturbance
- Decontamination in outline
- What asbestos awareness does not authorise you to do
Method of assessment
How Asbestos Awareness is assessed
Assessment runs through the session, with a short written check to close. Certification is issued through UKATA.
Discussion and recognition
Working through photographs and material samples of the places asbestos turns up, including several that surprise people every time.
Written check
A short paper covering the health effects, the common locations and the actions to take on discovery.
UKATA certificate
Issued on successful completion and valid for one year. Refresher training is expected annually.
Ways to learn
How you can take this course
Every route covers the same accredited syllabus and the same support. Pick the one that fits how your people work.
Dates and locations
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Also available
In-company training
We run this one to order, at your place or ours.
Onsite / in-company
Run Asbestos Awareness at your site
We deliver anywhere in the UK, on your dates and around your shift patterns. For six or more people it is usually cheaper per head than sending everyone to a centre, and nobody loses a day travelling.
Tell us roughly how many people and when, and we will come back with options and a price, or ask MB and get an answer straight away.
What onsite includes
- The same tutor, materials and certification as our centres
- Your venue or one we arrange near you
- Dates and start times built around your operation
- One invoice and one point of contact for the whole group
- Content examples drawn from your own workplace
Asbestos Awareness FAQs
One year. Asbestos is one of the few subjects where annual refresher training is genuinely the expectation, and most principal contractors check the date at induction.
No, and this is the point of the course. Awareness training exists so you recognise asbestos containing materials and stop. Carrying out controlled work on them needs the Non Licensed Operative course, and licensed work needs an HSE licensed contractor.
Anything built or refurbished before the year 2000 should be treated as containing asbestos until a survey says otherwise, which covers a very large share of the UK building stock.
Kingsway House, Caldwell Road, Widnes WA8 7EA. Widnes sits by the Silver Jubilee and Mersey Gateway crossings, minutes from the A557 and the M62, with Widnes and Hough Green stations nearby. Full joining instructions with timings go out before the course.
The same course runs at our other centres in Stoke-on-Trent, Derby, Manchester and Liverpool, and we deliver it at employers’ own premises anywhere in the UK. Tell us roughly when you need it and we will find something or put a date on.
Yes, anywhere in the country. For six or more people it normally works out cheaper per head than sending everybody to a centre, and we can build the day around your shift patterns.
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