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Asbestos Regulations Ireland
The Exposure to Asbestos Regulations 2006 and 2010: identification before work, risk assessment, notification to the HSA, the exposure limit, training, health surveillance and waste.
Work that may disturb asbestos in Ireland is governed by the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Exposure to Asbestos) Regulations 2006, S.I. No. 386 of 2006, amended by S.I. No. 589 of 2010, made under the 2005 Act and implementing the EU asbestos directive now consolidated as Directive 2009/148/EC. They apply to every employer whose employees are or may be exposed to asbestos, from demolition contractors to electricians drilling a wall.
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Because asbestos is our whole specialty, the asbestos awareness course at Irish Asbestos Awareness goes deeper than a general provider ever could: every hiding place, every health effect and every correct response is shown clearly with real photographs and readable text, comfortable for learners of every nationality. The asbestos awareness training meets HSA requirements under SI 386/2006 and issues a recognised asbestos awareness certificate accepted throughout Ireland, the UK and Europe. Irish Asbestos Awareness proudly serves learners across every county in Ireland, including Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick, Waterford, Kilkenny.
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Irish Asbestos Awareness is operated by a legally registered company, and this asbestos awareness course carries independent approval from leading professional bodies. Employers in Ireland, from Dublin and Cork to Galway, accept our certification without question, as do businesses across Ireland, the UK and Europe.
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Meets Every Standard The asbestos awareness training is CPD Certified and RoSPA Approved and meets HSA standards, the exact accreditations Irish employers and site managers check first.
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Built on Irish Law Mapped directly to the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Exposure to Asbestos) Regulations, SI 386/2006, the rules that govern asbestos work in Ireland.
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Straight answers about the asbestos awareness course for Ireland learners: local acceptance, online delivery, certification and pricing at Irish Asbestos Awareness.
Yes for anyone who is or may be exposed to asbestos in their work, under Regulation 20 of the Exposure to Asbestos Regulations 2006. That covers most construction and maintenance trades working in pre 2000 buildings.
Ireland has no licensing scheme like the UK. Instead, work with asbestos must be notified to the HSA, planned and carried out by competent trained contractors with the required controls, and higher risk removal is in practice done only by specialist firms.
As hazardous waste: double wrapped in heavy polythene, labelled, transported by a permitted waste collector and taken to a licensed disposal facility. Some local authority civic amenity sites accept small quantities of bonded asbestos cement from householders by arrangement.
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Discover why workers and businesses in Ireland, from Dublin, Cork, Galway and beyond, choose Irish Asbestos Awareness for asbestos awareness training.
The asbestos awareness course at Irish Asbestos Awareness fits Ireland working life perfectly. From Dublin's construction cranes and Cork's pharma plants to Galway's medtech campuses, Limerick's manufacturing belt and the farms, hotels, warehouses and hospitals in every county between, Irish workplaces run on certified, compliant staff. Instead of losing a day to a classroom, learners in Ireland complete the full accredited training online, in about 1-2 hours, from home or straight from the workplace.
Local employers know exactly what they are looking at when your certificate arrives: CPD Certified, RoSPA approved, HSA aligned training from a provider used by businesses across every county in Ireland. The unique verification code on every certificate makes checks instant, whether you work in Dublin, Cork or Galway.
For businesses, the free Employer Dashboard turns a team rollout into one afternoon of work: bulk registration, live progress and every asbestos awareness certificate in one clean screen, with automatic volume discounts applied at checkout.
Most providers sell asbestos awareness as one course among dozens. At Irish Asbestos Awareness it is the entire business, and the depth shows: every hiding place, every material type and every response procedure gets proper treatment instead of a passing mention.
The syllabus tracks exactly what SI 386/2006 and the HSA expect: asbestos types, the hiding places in ceilings, floors, pipe lagging, roofs and boards, health effects, emergency response and the hard limits of awareness level work.
The result is an asbestos course that site managers recognise as genuinely specialist, backed by a certificate they trust on sight.
Asbestos awareness renews every 3 years, which makes the classroom version a recurring tax on your time. The online course removes it: every lesson streams on any device, every pause saves your place, and the whole renewal takes about 1-2 hours from wherever you are.
Start the asbestos training on a quiet evening, continue in the van before a shift and finish over the weekend. Progress syncs across every device automatically.
No classroom day, no travel, no waiting list: enrol now, certify today, repeat painlessly at your next renewal.
Pass the assessment and the digital asbestos awareness certificate is generated on the spot, aligned with Irish legislation and recognised across Ireland, the UK and Europe.
It lives permanently in your account for re-download during site inductions, audits, tenders and insurance renewals, and its unique verification code lets any employer or inspector confirm it instantly.
On a construction CV, the certificate is close to mandatory now, and having a current one ready puts you ahead of the queue at every gate.
Every module comes from licensed, Chartered (CMIOSH) health and safety consultants who have surveyed real Irish buildings and managed real asbestos discoveries.
That experience shows: you learn to spot asbestos cement roofs, textured coatings, vinyl floor tiles, pipe lagging and insulation boards on sight, and you know precisely what to do and who to call when something suspicious appears mid job.
Content is re-reviewed against current legislation and HSA guidance, so the asbestos course never drifts out of date.
A classroom asbestos day costs far more than the ticket price: travel, lost hours and scheduling headaches, repeated at every renewal because this certificate renews every 3 years. The online asbestos awareness course removes every one of those costs, every time.
Crews certify from home, the office or the site cabin, starting the moment you enrol them, and managers see each completion in real time.
Pricing is honest: one figure covers the full course, unlimited retakes and the instant asbestos awareness certificate. No add ons, ever.
The free Employer Dashboard registers staff in bulk, assigns the asbestos awareness course to each person, shows live progress and stores every certificate in one clean screen.
Volume discounts apply automatically at checkout, and expiry reminders arrive before anyone on the crew lapses, which matters twice as much with a certificate that renews every 3 years.
Construction firms, demolition contractors and maintenance companies across Ireland run their asbestos refreshers through us year after year.
Legally, anyone whose work could disturb the fabric of a building built before 2000: SI 386/2006 puts the training duty on every employer, and the HSA checks records during inspections.
Practically, that means general construction workers, demolition and strip out crews, electricians, plumbers, heating engineers, carpenters, painters, roofers, caretakers, facility maintenance staff and self employed trades.
Asbestos hid in Irish buildings for decades and looks completely ordinary. If your tools touch old walls, floors or ceilings, this specialist course applies to you.
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Asbestos Regulations Ireland
The Exposure to Asbestos Regulations 2006 and 2010: identification before work, risk assessment, notification to the HSA, the exposure limit, training, health surveillance and waste.
Identify before you start
Regulation 5 requires an employer, before beginning demolition, maintenance, refurbishment or removal work in premises that may contain asbestos, to take all reasonable steps to identify presumed asbestos containing materials and to assess the risk. If there is any doubt, the material is presumed to contain asbestos and the work is planned accordingly.
Risk assessment, plan of work and notification
Where exposure is possible, a written risk assessment and a plan of work are required, setting out the methods, the controls, the equipment and the waste route. Work with asbestos, other than low risk sporadic work on materials in good condition, must be notified to the Health and Safety Authority at least fourteen days before it starts. Removal of sprayed coatings, lagging and insulating board is the highest category and is carried out only by competent contractors with enclosures, decontamination units and air monitoring.
Exposure limit, controls and health
Exposure must be reduced to the lowest level reasonably practicable and never exceed the limit value of 0.1 fibres per cubic centimetre of air as an eight hour time weighted average. Controls include wet methods, enclosure, local exhaust ventilation, respiratory protective equipment and decontamination. Employees who are exposed receive health surveillance and their exposure is recorded and kept for forty years.
Training and waste
Regulation 20 requires appropriate training for every employee who is or may be exposed to asbestos dust, before the work and at regular intervals, covering the properties of asbestos, the health effects, the products likely to contain it, safe work practices, protective equipment, emergency procedures and decontamination. Asbestos waste is hazardous waste under the Waste Management Acts: double bagged and labelled, moved by a permitted carrier and disposed of only at licensed facilities.
S.I. 386 of 2006
The Exposure to Asbestos Regulations, amended by S.I. 589 of 2010.
Notify the HSA
Fourteen days before work with asbestos, other than low risk sporadic tasks.
0.1 fibres per cm3
The limit value, with exposure kept as low as reasonably practicable below it.
The accredited Asbestos Awareness Course delivers the Regulation 20 awareness training for trades and building staff, with a CPD certified certificate on completion.
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