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UKATA Duty to Manage Asbestos
Regulation 4, for the person it lands on. If you own, occupy, manage or have repair responsibility for non domestic premises, the duty to manage asbestos is yours whether or not anybody has told you so.
About this course
Regulation 4 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 creates a duty that a great many people are carrying without knowing it. It applies to whoever has responsibility for the maintenance or repair of non domestic premises, which in practice means owners, occupiers, landlords, managing agents and anybody holding a repairing obligation under a lease.
The duty is not to remove asbestos. It is to know where it is, assess its condition and the risk, write it down, keep it under review, and make sure the information reaches anybody whose work could disturb it. Plenty of buildings fail on the last part: a register exists, nobody gave it to the contractor, and somebody drilled through a panel.
This one day course takes a duty holder through the whole cycle. Working out whether you are the duty holder in the first place, which can be genuinely unclear in a multi tenanted building. Finding out what is there, through survey or by presuming asbestos is present. Assessing condition and risk properly rather than colouring in a matrix.
Then the management plan itself: what it must contain, who it goes to, how the register gets to the contractor before work starts, labelling, monitoring, and the review that stops a plan going stale. Common domestic parts of residential blocks are covered too, because that is the exception people miss.
It is written for duty holders and the people who support them, not for operatives, and it assumes no technical asbestos background.
- Regulation 4 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 and exactly what it requires
- Working out who the duty holder is, including in multi tenanted and leased premises
- Non domestic premises, and the common parts of residential blocks that are caught
- Finding out what is there: management surveys, refurbishment and demolition surveys, and presumption
- Reading a survey report properly, including its limitations and no access areas
- Assessing the condition of asbestos containing materials and the risk they present
- Building and maintaining an asbestos register
- Writing an asbestos management plan that would survive scrutiny
- Getting the information to contractors before work starts, every time
- Labelling, monitoring, periodic reinspection and review
- Deciding between managing in place and removal, and why removal is often the worse option
- Enforcement, what inspectors look at, and what good record keeping looks like
How completing this course helps you
- A UKATA duty to manage asbestos certificate
- A clear understanding of whether the Regulation 4 duty sits with you
- An asbestos management plan you could hand to an inspector
- A process that gets the register in front of contractors before they start work
- A defensible position if something goes wrong
Who should attend?
Duty holders under Regulation 4 and the people who support them: building owners and occupiers, landlords and managing agents, facilities and estates managers, property and asset managers, school business managers and academy trust staff, health and safety managers, and trustees or directors with premises responsibility.
Entry requirements. None. No technical asbestos background is assumed. It is written for duty holders rather than operatives.
Ready to take the next step?
Choose a delivery option, compare dates and book with confidence, or ask MB and get an answer straight away.
Who this is for
The duty holder and the operative need different training
Duty to Manage is a management course. It is about knowing what is in your building, recording it, keeping it under review and getting that information to the right people. It does not teach anybody to work with asbestos and it is not meant to.
Your trades need something different: asbestos awareness so they recognise and stop, or non licensed operative training where they actually carry out controlled work. Sending a maintenance team on the duty to manage course leaves them without the training Regulation 10 requires.
Where a building has both, and most do, you need both courses. The duty holder writes the plan; the trades work to it.
You are the duty holder
This course. Regulation 4, the register, the plan and the review cycle.
Your maintenance trades
UKATA Asbestos Awareness, annually.
Anybody doing controlled work on ACMs
Non Licensed Operative training.
Sprayed coatings, lagging or AIB removal
A licensed contractor. No course covers that.
Course content
What you will cover
The duty
- Regulation 4 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012
- Who the duty holder is, and how to work it out
- Non domestic premises and common parts of residential blocks
- Multi tenanted buildings and leases with repairing obligations
- What the duty actually requires, step by step
- Enforcement and what happens when it is not met
Finding out what is there
- Management surveys and refurbishment and demolition surveys
- When each type is needed
- Presuming asbestos is present, and when that is the right call
- Reading a survey report and its limitations
- No access areas and what to do about them
- Assessing condition and material and priority risk
Managing it
- The asbestos register: what it holds and how it is kept
- The asbestos management plan and its required content
- Labelling and marking
- Managing in place versus removal
- Monitoring, periodic reinspection and review
- Training your own staff
Making it work
- Getting the register to contractors before work starts
- Permit systems and contractor control
- What to do when something is found or damaged
- Emergency procedures
- Record keeping that stands up
- Reviewing the plan and keeping it alive
Method of assessment
How Duty to Manage Asbestos is assessed
Discussion, worked examples and a written check. Certification is issued through UKATA.
Duty holder exercise
Working through several building and tenancy scenarios to decide who the duty holder is. This is the part that changes minds, because people regularly discover the duty is theirs.
Plan review
Reviewing an asbestos management plan and identifying what is missing. Bring your own if we are onsite.
Written check and certificate
A written assessment on Regulation 4, surveys and the management plan, then a UKATA certificate.
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.
Classroom
Tutor-led at one of our centres, with everything provided.
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The same tutor and the same timetable, joined from anywhere.
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Arrange this course
There are no scheduled dates for this course at the moment. It is normally arranged around you.
Tell us roughly when you need it and how many people are going, and we will come back with dates and a price.
Also available
In-company training
We run this one to order, at your place or ours.
Onsite / in-company
Run Duty to Manage Asbestos 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
Duty to Manage Asbestos FAQs
Whoever has responsibility for the maintenance or repair of non domestic premises, through a contract, a tenancy agreement or ownership. In a multi tenanted building the duty can be shared or sit with the landlord for common parts, which is why the course spends time on working it out rather than assuming.
Not to individual dwellings, but it does apply to the common parts of residential blocks: stairwells, lift shafts, boiler rooms, corridors and roof spaces. That exception catches a lot of landlords and managing agents out.
No. The duty is to manage it. Asbestos containing material in good condition and unlikely to be disturbed is usually safer left in place, labelled and monitored, than removed. Unnecessary removal creates exposure that would not otherwise have happened.
Where the asbestos is, its condition, how the risk is being managed, who is responsible, what the monitoring and reinspection arrangements are, and how the information reaches anybody whose work might disturb it. The course works through each element and reviews real examples.
At least annually, and whenever anything changes: building work, damage, a new tenant, a change of use. A plan that has not been looked at since it was written is the commonest finding when something goes wrong.
Yes, onsite nationwide or live online, and it works well as a management team session. Bring your own register and plan and we will review them during the day, which tends to be the most useful part.
Annually. The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 require training to be refreshed at regular intervals, and UKATA and HSE guidance both point at twelve months for asbestos awareness and non licensed work. It is one of the few subjects where an annual refresher is genuinely the expectation rather than a nicety.
Yes. Acadame is a UKATA member and this training is delivered to the UKATA standard, so the certificate is the one a principal contractor or client is looking for when they ask for UKATA asbestos training.
Yes, anywhere in the UK, and it works well for a whole team. We can also run it live online where that suits a spread out workforce better.
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