Employers have a legal obligation to provide workers, such as tradespeople and other workers, who are likely to encounter asbestos on the job, with asbestos awareness training. This includes asbestos in fencing.
Completion of SafeWork NSW’s online Asbestos Awareness & Safety course, now available in English and Chinese, helps meet those legal obligations and aims to give participants the skills to protect themselves and their colleagues from harmful asbestos fibres and dust.
With over 20,000 enrolments in the English version of the course and a feedback rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, this is the course for you to enrol into if you or your workers haven’t completed asbestos awareness training. The course is currently free until 31 December 2025.
This self-paced, online course will teach participants how to:
- Recognise the risks and severe long-term impacts of asbestos exposure
- Determine if asbestos-containing material may be present on-site
- Avoid hazardous work practices that can lead to asbestos exposure
- Safely handle asbestos and asbestos-containing materials
- Inspect worksites and communicate asbestos risks and asbestos controls with an informed perspective.
Further training is required to do licensed asbestos removal work, such as removing more than 10sqm of non-friable asbestos or any amount of friable asbestos.
