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 Asbestos Awareness

Asbestos products are found in many areas in the home and other structures. This material is used in the production of roofs, gutters, downpipes, barge caps, gable ends, imitation brick and exterior sheeting on the walls. Like any heavily advantageous and profitable substances and elements, Asbestos also has its dark side.

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Asbestos was been a popular building material for many decades, and asbestos products are found in many areas in offices,  homes and other structures. It is used in the production of a huge variety of materials, including roofs, gutters, downpipes, barge caps, gable ends, imitation brick and exterior sheeting on the walls. Like any heavily advantageous and profitable substances and elements, Asbestos also has its dark side.

Throughout the history, Asbestos has been deemed as the Evil Dust. The material poses health and safety threats through its popular use in construction works. It was widely used as a building material due to it’s lasting, fire-resistant, and good insulation qualities. Nonetheless, due to hazardous side effects, it is now banned from use in many parts of the globe.

This course discusses the areas of asbestos awareness for anyone who might possibly get near to asbestos-containing materials in their work.

In the main, these would be the:

  • Builders
  • Plumbers
  • Electricians
  • Carpenters
  • Other jobs related to building structures and building maintenance jobs.

The course consists of 4 modules where you will be asked questions at the end to test and prove to yourself that you learned and thoroughly understood the content. As we appreciate that few people take everything in in one, go, you can view the modules as often as you require, but will have only 3 attempts to achieve the pass rate – which, unlike other courses, is one hundred percent.

Module List

No.Module NamePass %
1 Properties and Risks of Asbestos Exposure

100

2 Different Types of Asbestos

100

3 Avoiding the Risks from Asbestos

100

4 An Outline of Asbestos Legislation

100

Duration: 65
Note: This is based on the amount of video content shown and is rounded off. It does not account in any way for loading time or thinking time on the questions
Systen Requirements
Operating System : Windows XP/7/8, Mac OSX (10.6)
Browser : Chrome 20+, Firefox 28+, Internet Explorer 9, Safari for Mac 5+
Video : Up-to-date video drivers
Memory : 1Gb+ RAM

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