Asbestos Awareness Training in Birmingham, West Midlands
Whatever your specific needs are as an organisation or an individual working with or near asbestos in Birmingham or close by, we can provide HSE-approved, tailored training solutionsWith an office located in the heart of the midlands, Oracle Solutions is perfectly placed to provide a full range of asbestos services to those requiring asbestos surveys, removals, air monitoring, and asbestos training in the Birmingham and West Midlands area. We use local asbestos operatives who enable us to provide you with a fast and reliable service.
Midlands Regional Office:
Office Address: Izabella House Regent Place, Birmingham, B1 3NJ
Telephone: 0844 245 1719
Our office for the Midlands region is situated at Regent Place, Birmingham. From here, our team at Oracle Solutions caters to the broadest range of requirements when it comes to asbestos management around the locality. This encompasses the provision of such vital services as asbestos surveying, asbestos removal, and asbestos training courses.
Whether you are responsible for a property, construction, or demolition site in Birmingham city centre, Digbeth, Southside, Edgbaston, Harborne, Kings Heath, or all manner of other areas within or around this happening city, you can trust Oracle Solutions’ efficient and dependable service.
In what circumstances might asbestos training be necessary in Birmingham?
It has been illegal to use asbestos in the UK – or to import it here – since 1999, but this fibrous silicate mineral is sadly not a merely “historical” issue. The substance remains present in a wide range of public, commercial, and residential structures up and down the country, including in and near Birmingham.
During its peak period of use in the UK – especially from around the 1950s until the 1980s – asbestos was incorporated into such products as asbestos cement roof sheets, asbestos insulating board (AIB), textured decorative coatings, and thermal insulation (lagging).
Any disturbance of asbestos-containing materials (ACMs) like these, could cause the dangerous release of loose asbestos fibres into the air. If these barely visible particles are subsequently breathed in by someone nearby, this could greatly heighten the exposed individual’s likelihood of developing a potentially fatal asbestos-related health condition many years later.
Quite rightly, stringent legislation has been laid down in the UK, setting out how ACMs need to be managed in settings where they remain present today.
Enrolling your organisation’s employees in asbestos training courses that are approved by the UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) – as is the case for all our courses at Oracle Solutions – will help you comply with the latest legal requirements, while keeping people safe.
Why should Oracle Solutions be your favoured provider of Birmingham asbestos training?
One reason why individuals and organisations have long turned to Oracle Solutions for asbestos courses, is the broad range of such courses that we provide.
As we explain further below, we make available Category A asbestos awareness training, Category B non-licensable asbestos removal training, and “duty to manage” training, in addition to refresher training. These are all UKATA training courses, and they’re CPD certified, too – which should enable you to place even greater trust in their quality and suitability.
However, it isn’t just the types of asbestos training we offer that are important, but also the precise ways we can deliver these courses.
You have the option, for instance, to receive face-to-face asbestos training from our experts at our fully bespoke UKATA-accredited modern training centre near our Kettering office. However, we can also travel to your own business’s site to provide the training if you would prefer this, or you might like the sheer convenience of our virtual live online training.
You are welcome to click through to the relevant part of our website to discover the latest dates and availability information for our live online asbestos courses. Alternatively, you can simply give us a call to book a place or to ask us any questions.
There are various other excellent reasons to choose Oracle Solutions for asbestos training in Birmingham or nearby. These include:
- The fact that all the legally required content is delivered to learners – although if you aren’t sure whether your chosen course is the right match to your legal obligations, you should ask us first
- The HSE certificate that learners will receive once they successfully complete training
- The genuine passion that our trainers have for the subject of asbestos, and the importance of managing this lethal substance safely and effectively. This enthusiasm comes through in the training – as our past customers have often commented on.
Frequently Asked Questions
We have included answers below to some of the questions we most commonly receive about Birmingham asbestos training from Oracle Solutions. If you have any further queries, or would like to request a quote, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us.
What are the principal types of asbestos training?
You can count on Oracle Solutions as a provider of the following types of asbestos training in or close to Birmingham:
- Category A (Cat A) asbestos awareness training: this training should be provided to employees whose work could foreseeably disturb a building’s fabric and potentially expose them to asbestos. It should also be given to those individuals – such as managers or directors – who supervise or influence the work of such employees.
- Category B (Cat B) asbestos non-licensed removal training: if a given employee’s work will knowingly disturb low-risk ACMs, this training should be given to them. Examples of such workers include roofers, maintenance workers, and demolition workers. The supervisors and managers of such people should also receive this training.
- “Duty to manage” asbestos training: introductory knowledge is provided by this course to assist those who have the “duty to manage” asbestos in accordance with Regulation 4 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 (CAR 2012). In fact, this training can be useful for anyone who may be involved in the management of asbestos within one or multiple buildings.
To learn more about the various types of asbestos training in the UK, please consult our comprehensive guide on this specialised subject.
What is the significance of an asbestos course being “CPD certified”?
CPD stands for “Continuing Professional Development”. We have previously written about what the CPD Certification Service is, and how it works. Essentially, if a given asbestos course is CPD certified, this should give you even greater confidence in its quality, given that this certification status indicates the training has been evaluated to the highest standards.
In what circumstances is a “refresher” of asbestos training needed?
Asbestos refresher training isn’t a mere “nice to have” or even a “should have”; it is a legal necessity where workers will be carrying out work that could put them in contact with asbestos.
Our past blog post on this topic sets out the essentials of asbestos refresher training. As stipulated by Regulation 10 of CAR 2012, asbestos refresher training will need to be provided every year, or more frequently than this in certain circumstances.
Examples of such circumstances include if work methods change, or if there is a change in the type of equipment used to control asbestos exposure. It will also be necessary to arrange asbestos refresher training if the type of work undertaken changes significantly, or if gaps in competency are identified.
Are you ready to firm up your interest in HSE-approved asbestos training solutions in Birmingham or elsewhere in the Midlands? If so, please feel free to get in touch with Oracle Solutions today. When you do, we can advise and guide you in relation to the next steps to take.
For a fast & free asbestos awareness training quote call 0844 800 0801
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