Asbestos Hazard Awareness

Protect your high-risk workforce from this notorious airborne health hazard. Asbestos is a natural, fibrous silicate mineral. Exposure has proved extremely dangerous; microscopic asbestos fibers, when inhaled, can cause certain types of often fatal lung disease, making asbestoshazardawareness an essential training topic.

Because asbestos was used in countless construction products before 1980, many buildings built before that year are considered to have incorporated asbestos materials (any material containing more that 1% asbestos) over the course of construction.

Today, industrial activity involving salvage, demolition, and construction, commonly present exposure risks to workers. But, even work like performing brake and clutch repairs or building maintenance and cleaning, can present exposure risks—it really depends on what you’re working with and where.

The purpose of this lesson is to increase awareness of asbestos hazards to help minimize employee exposure and risk of acquiring an asbestos-related disease, which therefore contributes to employee workplace safety. Completion of this lesson alone does not meet the intent of applicable regulations nor qualify a worker to collect samples or perform abatement activities.