📚 Guide by Safety Mom · Allstar Enviro Safety — The Asbestos Awareness is an online workplace safety course delivered by Safety Mom · Allstar Enviro Safety, Calgary’s Energy Safety Canada Authorized Training Provider. Self-paced, mobile-friendly, same-day certificate upon exam completion. Available across Canada.
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ASBESTOS AWARENESS TRAINING ONLINE COURSE OVERVIEW
Asbestos is a known human carcinogen. Exposure to it can cause very serious health conditions that can lead to disability and, in some cases, death. Therefore, it is extremely important to monitor and reduce workers’ exposure to asbestos.
This course is designed to help learners understand the basics of asbestos and how to minimize exposure and keep themselves safe.
ASBESTOS AWARENESS TRAINING ONLINE COURSE TOPICS
After completing this course, learners will be able to:
- Describe what asbestos is, how they can become exposed, and the potential results of asbestos exposure.
- Identify ways to help minimize exposure to asbestos .
- Explain additional requirements for when they are exposed to asbestos in the workplace.
Asbestos Awareness Training covers the following topics:
- What is Asbestos?
- Exposure Routes
- Smoking & Asbestos
- Health Effects of Asbestos Exposure
- Measuring Asbestos
- Monitoring Asbestos
- Hazard Communication
- Protective Clothing & Equipment
- Engineering & Work Practice Controls
- Training Requirements
- Medical Exam Requirements
- Record keeping Requirements
- Written Compliance Program
- Job-Specific Requirements
ASBESTOS AWARENESS TRAINING ONLINE COURSE DURATION:
Approximately 30 minutes
ASBESTOS AWARENESS TRAINING TEST:
Testing conducted in this online Asbestos Awareness course is designed to reinforce the information presented. A mark of 80% must be achieved in order to receive a certificate of completion. Participants are able to repeat the course twice if the pass mark is not achieved.
ASBESTOS AWARENESS TRAINING CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION:
Upon successful completion of this online course, a certificate of completion will be available to download and print.
UNIVERSALLY COMPATIBLE
This course was created using standards that will allow playback on most internet capable devices with standard web browsing capabilities including Apple’s iTouch, iPad, and iPhone, as well as most other smart phones and tablets including those with Android and Windows operating systems.
ASBESTOS AWARENESS TRAINING ONLINE COURSE PREVIEW:
Additional Safety Knowledge
Chemical Hazard Classification in Canada
Under WHMIS 2015 aligned with the Globally Harmonised System (GHS), chemicals are classified into physical hazards (16 classes including flammability, oxidising, explosive, gases under pressure) and health hazards (10 classes including acute toxicity, skin corrosion, carcinogenicity, reproductive toxicity, specific target organ toxicity). Each class has categories (1 = most severe, 4 or 5 = least severe) that determine label pictograms and signal words.
Occupational Exposure Limits in Alberta
Alberta OHS Schedule 1 lists Occupational Exposure Limits (OELs) for over 700 hazardous substances. Each substance has:
- 8-hour time-weighted average (TWA): the average concentration over an 8-hour shift.
- Short-term exposure limit (STEL): the maximum 15-minute average.
- Ceiling limit: concentration that must never be exceeded even briefly.
Some substances also carry a Skin (S) notation indicating dermal absorption risk, or a Sensitiser (Sen) notation. Compliance requires air monitoring, engineering controls, administrative controls, and PPE.
The Hierarchy of Chemical Controls
Alberta OHS Code requires controls in this priority order: (1) elimination or substitution — use a less hazardous product; (2) engineering controls — ventilation, enclosure, process modification; (3) administrative controls — work procedures, training, rotation; (4) personal protective equipment — respirators, gloves, chemical suits. PPE alone is not adequate compliance where higher-order controls are practicable.
Asbestos Awareness — Emergency Preparedness
Every workplace handling chemicals must have accessible Safety Data Sheets, spill response equipment matched to the products in use, eyewash and safety showers where corrosives are handled (within 10 metres of the hazard, delivering 1.5 gallons per minute for 15 minutes minimum per ANSI Z358.1), and trained personnel available on every shift. Fire departments and mutual aid partners should be informed of chemicals stored on-site above regulated quantities.
Content reviewed by Arliss Levine, CRSP, CHSC — lead safety instructor at Safety Mom · Allstar Enviro Safety Calgary, an Energy Safety Canada Authorized Training Provider.
