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Speakers from SAFE Training, the education division of Silverdell Plc and Redhills the specialist environmental consultancy were invited to address members of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) on the subject of Asbestos Management at their CPD Accredited RICS Building Surveyors Technical Update Conferences, held at various locations throughout the UK throughout June and July.
With around 100,000 qualified members and over 50,000 students and trainees in some 140 countries, RICS provides the world’s leading professional qualifications in land, property, construction and the associated environmental issues.
The duty to manage asbestos is directed at those who manage non-domestic premises: the people with responsibility for protecting others who work in such premises from the risks to ill health that exposure to asbestos causes.
An important function of Duty Holders is to ensure that anyone, staff or those contracted to carry out works with asbestos or likely to disturb any ACMs (asbestos containing materials), is competent to do so and is properly trained to deal with asbestos.
Rob Blackburn from SAFE Training offers these handy asbestos management tips:
Rob Blackburn – SAFE Training explores the impact of the recent EU ruling on working with asbestos and the implications for UK Facilities Managers
In February the UK was passed a note called a ‘reasoned opinion’ from the EU. The note had taken nigh on five years to reach its intended recipient [the UK government] and alluded to a failure to implement the minimum standards of the Asbestos Worker Protection Directive (AWPD) in 2006.
The effect that this note will have will be with us considerably faster than it took to write, and reach, its destination. The HSE have just announced a timetable of under a year.
Asbestos Training
Asbestos Awareness Training Course
This course meets the training requirements under Regulation 10 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations (CAR) 2006.
Duration: Half day
Delegate numbers: 15-20
Venue: Your choice – One of our national SAFE Training centres, at your premises or on site
Who is it for?
Anyone who disturbs the fabric of a building built prior to 1999. This includes anything from putting up a picture hook, maintenance tasks to large-scale refurbishment.
General maintenance staff, electricians, plumbers, gas fitters, painters and decorators, joiners, plasterers, demolition workers, construction workers, roofers, heating and ventilation engineers (H&V), telecommunication engineers, burglar and fire alarm installers, computer installers, architects, building surveyors, shop fitters, other such professionals and their supervisors.
Course content
- What is asbestos? The main properties of asbestos and its effects on health
- The types and likely occurrences of asbestos in premises and plant
- General procedures to be followed in the event of an emergency
- How to avoid the risks from asbestos
The 2011 series of BOHS/ATAC seminars are client focused with an aim to educate and instil industry minimum standards and best practice for clients, managers and directors who are directly and indirectly involved with asbestos management.
The seminars provide a review of changes to asbestos management, current asbestos industry standards which should be employed by clients and include an update from the HSE on where changes are likely to be made over the coming year.
There is ample opportunity to ask questions that are of concern to you to the panel of assembled experts. The aim is for clients to leave the seminars empowered with up-to-date knowledge and a grasp of policy changes for the future. Attendees should leave with an understanding of the legal obligations they are under and also the tools available to manage their asbestos in the most efficient, cost effective and health and safety conscious manner, especially during times of austerity.
Rob Blackburn from SAFE Training gave a presentation on the Training & Management Requirements placed on Dutyholders through DTM & CAR 2006 – The presentation can be viewed here:
SAFE Training provides regulatory training courses to businesses and their employees throughout the UK.
With a nationwide network of training centres, we have the experience, expertise and resources to satisfy the most demanding of training objectives.
Asbestos Training Courses include:
Other Training Courses include:
- Legionella Awareness Training Courses
- Fire Safety Training Courses
- Environmental Awareness Training Courses
For more information on our training courses call 0845 519 5250 or email: info@safe-training.org
SAFE Training (Part of Silverdell PLC) launch key industry training website.
Leading regulatory training provider , SAFE Training announces the launch of a brand new website which will promote their specialist environmental training services. The new website www.safe-training.org will provide access to a variety of training information, including a selection of industry recognised training courses for asbestos awareness, compliance, safe working practices, and improve competence and awareness.
A company called Page Nine have worked with the Silverdell Group to develop and build the new websites
A Nottinghamshire building firm contaminated an elderly resident’s possessions with asbestos during bathroom renovation work at sheltered housing in West Bridgford.
Abbott and Mason Building and Joinery Contractors Ltd of Mansfield also left asbestos-containing materials outside the building in the open air, putting the public at risk.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted the firm after it carried out work at the home of 96-year-old Mrs Ann Jenkins in Musters Road on 4 February 2010.
The company was removing asbestos insulation board (AIB) which had been used to box in pipework behind the bath but many of Mrs Jenkins’ possessions, including clothing and furniture was contaminated with asbestos fibres and had to be destroyed.
Nearly one in four construction sites across the Tees Valley were so dangerous that workers lives were being put at risk according to inspectors who visited them during the first two weeks in March.
In an initiative aimed at reducing deaths and injuries in one of Britain’s most dangerous industries, inspectors from the Health and Safety Executive visited 30 sites. Seven of these were found to be so far below required standards that inspectors had to issue formal enforcement notices. They were targeting refurbishment projects − the worst performing sector of the construction industry.
Asbestos continues to top the list of causes of death in the workplace. According to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) there are around 4,000 deaths caused by asbestos-related diseases each year in Britain and building owners and managers have a ‘duty of care’ to manage any asbestos in their building.
Managing asbestos is essential if the building is pre-2000, and includes all non-domestic buildings, whatever the business, as well as the common areas of residential rented buildings, such as halls, stair wells, lift shafts and roof spaces. Asbestos was extensively used as a building material in the UK from the 1950s through to the mid-1980s, as it was ideal for fireproofing and insulation. It can be found in asbestos cement products and insulating board; textured coatings; floor tiles, textiles and composites; sprayed coatings on ceilings, walls and beams/columns; lagging, and as loose asbestos in ceiling or floor cavities. In good condition, asbestos materials are safe, but when damaged or disturbed, asbestos fibres become airborne. This is when tradesmen and other contractors can become affected – giving rise, eventually, some 30 or even 50/60 years hence, to Mesothelioma and other asbestos-related diseases – and, finally, a very painful death.
Earlier this month (November) the HSE reported on the case of the boss of a refurbishment firm in North Tyneside being fined for a breach of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006 during a heating upgrade of a property. The firm’s staff were found not to have been given any asbestos awareness training, despite a legal requirement to do so.
Asbestos management does not only include asbestos awareness training, it also requires that a current survey of a building is readily available to anyone doing work on a building, combined with a management plan to minimise the risks to employees and occupants. According to Independent Training News, the newsletter for the IATP¹, reporting on a recent partnership meeting² “the biggest area of concern was again the failure of duty holders either to be aware of their duty to manage asbestos containing materials …….. and think all they had to do was a survey. Very few asbestos management plans have been seen and this would appear to apply to many very large ‘Blue chip’ organisations as well as the smaller ones.” Clearly, the need for a management plan needs to be better understood by duty holders.
The owner of a refurbishment company has appeared in front of magistrates for failing to provide employees with asbestos awareness training.
Neil Brown, trading as High View Services, was contracted by North Tyneside Council to make repairs during the refurbishment of a council house in Killingworth in January 2009. An upgraded heating system had been installed at the property and Brown’s firm was repairing surfaces that had been damaged during the installation.
On 6 January 2009, a council employee identified asbestos materials in debris, which had been placed in a wheelie bin outside the property. The HSE was notified and its investigation found that Brown had failed to provide asbestos awareness training for any of his employees who were working inside the property.
Delegates at Labour Party conference have overwhelmingly backed a motion moved by construction union UCATT which slammed the Government’s cuts which have damaged the construction industry.
The motion described the ConDem Government’s decision to axe the Building Schools for the Future project and to cut plans to build thousands of new homes as an “act of political vandalism”.
Moving the motion Alan Ritchie, General Secretary of UCATT, said in reference to the Government’s decision to cancel building thousands of new social houses: “The millionaires in the Cabinet claim we are all in this together. This is utter nonsense. They sit in their mansions, getting richer. While families are left to rot in bed and breakfast bedsits.”
Mr Ritchie, added: “Conference, these ConDem cuts are undermining the construction industry. Wrecking the lives of skilled workers. The decision not to build new schools, homes and hospitals. Not only affects the construction industry. It ruins the life chances of families, children and communities.”
In his speech Mr Ritchie also directly criticised the decision to cancel the Building Schools for the Future project, he said: “The ConDems say that education is important. Cancelling BSF exposed that lie. You can’t claim to be taking education seriously. If children are taught in crumbling schools, long past their sell by date. Many riddled with asbestos. Risking the lives of children and teachers. Leaving schools in this condition is an utter disgrace.”
Source: www.build.co.uk
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