Asbestos SWP Training

This course is designed to ensure workers who work directly with asbestos products understand:

Hazards associated with asbestos
Specifics of the asbestos exposure control plan (ECP) and safe work procedure (SWP)
Full suiting in respirators/ Tyvek and a complete mock-up of one safe work procedure including:
- Tools required
- Double bagging
- Decontamination

Duration: 3.5 hours

Method of Instruction: Classroom/Mock-up Demonstration

Max Class Size: 12 Students

EOCP CEU's: 0.4

Call 250-751-4295 for further detail or questions.

NOTE: All courses can be tailored to include company specific information

Asbestos Awareness
1. Responsibilities – Supervisor/ worker/ company
2. Hazards of asbestos
3. Characteristics of Asbestos
4. Typical places to find asbestos (in industry and in the home)
5. Exposure limit in BC
6. Difference between Low/ Moderate and High-risk asbestos work
  1. Respirator differences
  2. Enclosure differences
  3. Decontamination differences
7. How to control exposure to asbestos
Safe Work Procedures
1. Prepping for project (i.e. NOPa, fit testing, traffic control)
2. Marking out utilities
3. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
4. Methods to expose pipe
5. Tool usage
  1. What’s allowed
6. Disposal
  1. How to double bag and double poly wrap – when to use
  2. Discussion on bin liners
7. Decontamination
  1. Workers
    - Moderate versus high hazard
  2. Equipment
    - Requirement to clean off tools, equipment, excavator etc. prior to leaving excavation
Exposure Control Plan Review
Inventory requirements
1. Modifying inventories as asbestos is removed or found
Mock-up/ Demonstration by Participants
1. Site preparation and set-up demonstration – if possible
2. Suiting up demonstration
3. SWP and technique demonstration for one SWP
4. Decontamination and double bagging demonstration

ANDRE NOEL