Asbestos Awareness Training Course

It is a short online asbestos awareness course an organisation assigns so its people can recognise material that may contain asbestos, stop work and report it. It is for those who might come across asbestos, not for licensed removalists. Each completion is dated and recorded against the person.

Yes. The buildings, materials and rules described are Australian and New Zealand ones, and the content is checked against the law in each jurisdiction. Because asbestos obligations differ by state and territory more than most topics, the course says so rather than implying one national rule.

Often with a toolbox talk, a register in a filing cabinet and an assumption that the trades will know. That holds until somebody drills a 1975 eave. Our guides on running a workplace risk assessment and notifiable incidents in Australia cover the process either side of this course.

No. This is general awareness training. It is not 11084NAT, not a statement of attainment, and Sentrient is not a registered training organisation. If you need the accredited asbestos course, an RTO delivers it. This sits underneath that for the far larger group who will never remove asbestos.

A business must manage asbestos it knows about or ought reasonably to know about, which in practice means an asbestos register, a management plan and training for those who may be exposed, as the model Code of Practice on managing and controlling asbestos describes. What applies to your work and your state remains your organisation’s determination.

For workers who may be exposed, and removal under ten square metres of non-friable asbestos, SafeWork NSW expects training relevant to the task covering identification, safe handling and control measures, which is what this course covers. Larger or friable removal requires a specified vocational course. Confirm your own position with SafeWork NSW.

No, and this is the clearest exception. WorkSafe ACT requires listed occupations to hold an accredited asbestos awareness course delivered by a registered training organisation, regardless of seniority or licence, and training taken before 1 January 2008 is not accepted. ACT workers in those occupations need the accredited course, not this one.

Fifteen to thirty minutes in one sitting. The asbestos awareness course online runs at the learner’s own pace, so a maintenance crew can complete it between jobs without losing a day to a classroom.

Your organisation’s decision. Many assign it at induction, then again when the asbestos register is reviewed, when a building is acquired or when someone moves into a role that opens up older structures. Repeating it after a real find is when it lands hardest.

Lawyers review every Sentrient compliance course, with Mills Oakley Lawyers on the Australian content and Simpson Grierson Lawyers on the New Zealand content, revisited as the law shifts. The asbestos material follows the model Code of Practice and names the jurisdictional differences rather than smoothing them over.

Yours wins. The course teaches recognition and the stop-and-report rule in general terms, and says plainly that an organisation’s own register, management plan and reporting line take precedence. Assigning it alongside your plan works better than assigning it alone.

That checking it is the first move before work starts in an older building, that it lists what is known rather than everything that exists, and that silence in a register is not clearance. The course covers who maintains it, what a reasonable entry looks like and what to do when reality and register disagree.

Yes. It runs in Sentrient, in whichever learning management system your organisation has already standardised on, or through your HRIS. Loaded into your own platform as a package, the asbestos training online reports completions beside everything else that person has done.

Assign by person, team or site and the platform tracks who has finished and who has not, with reminders to the stragglers. Training asbestos awareness across a dispersed workforce is mostly a logistics problem, which is the part a classroom course handles least well and an online one handles easily.

A dated completion for each person. After a disturbance, a regulator, an insurer or a principal may ask what the people on site had been trained in, and the record answers that. It evidences the training, not the condition of any particular building.

The course teaches people. The Sentrient risk management system holds the risk and its controls, and the incident reporting training course covers what happens when something is disturbed. Sentrient does not sell an asbestos register product, so your register stays where it is.

The hazard identification and risk assessment training course for spotting hazards generally, the risk assessment training course for judging what to do about one, and the work health and safety training course for the duties underneath all of it. The silica awareness training course too, because the same older buildings hold both hazards and people meet them on the same job.

Yes. The asbestos training online opens in any current browser, on a handset, a tablet or a laptop, so a crew can get through it in a site office or a ute. Nothing installs and no date has to be booked.

Assign the course everywhere for general recognition, and treat the ACT separately, because listed occupations there need accredited training. The course explains that obligations differ by jurisdiction and tells learners to follow their own site rules and register rather than a single national rule.

Each completion is stored in the Sentrient platform and governed by the Australian Privacy Principles, and your organisation sets who may see it. Anything you record about a suspected find, including photographs and site details, stays yours to handle under your own procedure.

Because most of the market sells either an accredited asbestos training course for one person or a certificate that glosses over which obligation applies. Training asbestos awareness alongside your other compliance courses in one workplace compliance course library means one rollout, one report, lawyer-reviewed content and a Melbourne-based team behind it.

Any organisation responsible for older buildings: local government, community services, aged care, disability services, schools, property and facilities managers, churches and not-for-profits. Sentrient clients include Community Action Gympie, Jesuit Social Services and Carinya Society. Read how Community Action Gympie manages compliance across its services.

Pricing is per user and quoted against how many people you train and which other courses you take. There is no published figure because it moves with both. Raise it in the demo and we will size it against your own headcount.

Yes. A free 20-minute demo shows the asbestos awareness training course as a learner meets it, then assignment, reminders and the completion report a coordinator works from. Bring whoever maintains your asbestos register, since the awkward questions tend to come from them. Request your free demo.