A Wolverhampton hotel has just been fined £10,000 for failing to make an assessment of asbestos containing materials
Good reasons to keep your asbestos awareness training up to date (part 1)
Monthly Archives: April 2014
Asbestos awareness refresher training
Our online asbestos awareness course meets all the requirements of the HSE and UKATA for asbestos awareness refresher training
Take 5 and Stay Alive
Take 5 and Stay Alive is an initiative by the British Lung Foundation to highlight the risks of working with asbestos.
Your responsibilities as an employer for asbestos awareness training
In their guidance on asbestos training, the HSE make clear the responsibilities that an employer has with regard to asbestos awareness training: As an employer, you are responsible for ensuring that your employees have sufficient training and knowledge, as well as the experience and ability, to work without causing any risk to themselves or to […]
UKATA certificates
Are you in any doubt about the validity of your UKATA certificate?
HSE guidance on online asbestos awareness training
In 2012, the HSE acknowledged the increasingly important role of elearning (or online training) as a valid method for delivering online asbestos awareness training – provided the course content satisfied the objectives of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012.
UKATA asbestos awareness training for large organisations
If you have a large number of staff that require training in asbestos awareness, the time away from work that classroom training involves can be significant. Our online asbestos awareness training is the ideal solution.
H&S ABC – An easy guide to health & safety
The HSE have created a new guide to assist SMEs with health and safety
Mesothelioma to feature in TV soap plotline
A character in one of the UK’s best-known TV soaps reveals she has an asbestos-related disease