AA03 - Asbestos Awareness for Waste and Civic Amenity Site Personnel

This syllabus sets out the guidance issued by UKATA for the provision of asbestos awareness training for site persons whose work could foreseeably expose them to asbestos, as defined within the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 (CAR 2012).

This document provides the syllabus for the training along with guidance on the minimum content of all courses. Tutors can offer bespoke or tailored training for the remainder of any training session, but the core content must be adhered to.

Asbestos awareness training is not training to work with any forms of asbestos. It is likely to form the first part of training for work with asbestos, but on its own it is does not meet the legal requirements laid down under CAR 2012.

Any persons who may encounter asbestos containing materials during their day-to-day work activities whilst working or controlling work on licensed waste management or civic amenity sites. This would normally include, but is not limited to:

The engineers who are responsible for the design and operation of the waste management site, utilities installation and maintenance engineers, waste management and civic amenity site operatives, machine drivers and maintenance engineers and operatives, fencing installation contractors, those employed to undertake engineering or environmental measurements on site, including the taking of leachate samples for analysis or any other persons likely to come into contact with or in advertently disturb asbestos containing materials as defined in CAR 2012 during their work on such sites.

Minimum of 3.5 learning hours.
(This includes the time allocated for the final exam)