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Lead Paint and Asbestos Awareness Course

Employers are required to train staff to identify WorkPlace Health and Safety hazards, and how to protect themselves.

Lead and asbestos are classed as a high risk hazard by Safe Work Australia, and the various WorkSafe authorities.
This short course is designed to help painting contractors train their staff to identify lead and asbestos, how to take protective measures, what their obligations are, and how to safely handle it.
Includes:
  • Understanding lead and asbestos hazards
  • Lead paint testing
  • Identifying asbestos
  • Lead paint abatement procedures
  • Lead paint and asbestos encapsulation
  • AS/NZS Guide to Hazardous Paint Management
  • Safety requirements

To complete the course you will need a lead paint test kit. (Available from Bunnings and most good paint stores - $30)

This course is now available on-line. Payment can be made by credit card or EFT. A certificate of completion will be issued on completion of the course
Nominal hours: 8
(This course is not a nationally recognised qualification in asbestos removal)
Cost: $90 Enrol now
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Testimonials

"Thanks, this was a valid course to do and I was a little surprised having been in the industry to have gotten some wrong, just goes to show all of us need to keep on top of our commitment to the communities we work for, and in. A good course, well laid out, and I'll recommend this to others." - G. Buckley

"I have been stripping houses for years yet I found this course had information I never thought of so enjoyed learning never to old and look forward to having my workers do this course now" - R. Morris, New Zealand

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