Asbestos Awareness..... a must for all who work in schools....why?
Topics Covered in our Course:
- A brief history of the uses of asbestos
- Asbestos type’s properties and risks
- The effects of asbestos on workers health
- The type’s uses and risks of ACM’s in buildings and plant
- Procedures to deal with accidental exposure to asbestos
- How to avoid the risks of ACM’s in building
- The Employers and Employees legal responsibilities
A High proportion of our present schools contain asbestos. In 2004 the HSE gave an idea of the extent of asbestos in schools:
“Of the approximate 20,400 primary schools and 3,400 secondary schools in the UK, some 13,000 were built between 1945 and 1974, when the use of ACMs (Asbestos Containing Materials) in building was at its peak. Many other school premises would have been refurbished during or since that period, providing the potential for the introduction of ACMs e.g. lagging, ceiling panels, partition walls, sprayed coatings.
This suggests that a high proportion of our present schools contain asbestos and represent the potential to release deadly fibres.
Much of that asbestos remains to this day. All types of asbestos were used in a huge variety of applications such as;
- Walls
- Ceilings
- Suspended floors
- Acoustic insulation
- Fire insulation
- Loft insulation
- Damp insulation
- Storage heaters
- Pipe/boiler lagging
- Roofs
- Window sills
- Guttering
- Floor tiles
- Doors
- Blackboards
