
Explore essential asbestos definitions, inspections, and management plans while understanding health effects and practical safety steps to protect yourself in the workplace.
Identify common asbestos locations in buildings and old auto parts, including air duct coverings, door gaskets, brakes, gears, tiles, and vermiculite, and review asbestos management plans and facility maps.
Learn how to label asbestos work zones and bags in compliance with ANSI standards, emphasizing danger signs, authorized personnel only access, protective gear, proper disposal, and preventing dust exposure.
Identify how teachers, janitorial staff, and construction personnel may be exposed to asbestos. Recognize when disturbing asbestos containing materials requires an asbestos management plan and appropriate precautions.
Assess how asbestos exposure causes mesothelioma and pleural effects, and how time, dose, age, smoking, and fiber size shape risk. Find out how respirators and exposure controls reduce this risk.
Asbestos has a very bad reputation and for good reason. This course provides you with everything you need to know to work safely around asbestos and what to do if you encounter asbestos in a place it shouldn't be.
This course is intended to provide safety and health training in compliance with Federal OSHA and State OSHA training requirements such as CalOSHA. If you have questions, you may ask our instructors and they will respond to you within a short period of time as is outlined by the OSHA standards.
The training will cover all of the required elements outlined in Federal and State OSHA standards to ensure that your training meets or exceed the minimum required training. If your training has a time requirement, the content of the training has been designed to meet that requirement.
The training is developed by our in-house, real trainers with twenty years of experience, working in the field and with real crews and is trusted by public agencies throughout California.
There are no prerequisites required for this course. The course will walk you through all of the elements required to be successful and complete any questions or quizzes or testing that may be required.