Looked at this a few weeks ago.
Does not have to be accredited, as long as you can prove competence etc.
However, a lot of our work is for a water board, who insisted on it being UKATA accredited!

Before considering carrying out this training in house I would suggest you think long and hard.

If you provide the training and its your name on the certificate, it will be your responsibility if it goes wrong.

I am always wary when people use the phrase "-- in house to save costs".

Please don't take this personally, but any idiot can save costs and money, it takes a lot of management skills to produce something that is "cost effective" or "cost beneficial". Both are far more important than "saving costs".

By all means undertake it in house if you feel you are competent, but remember if it does go wrong at some time in the future, the people for whom you saved the money will be unlikely to come running to your defence.

While UKATA or others are not the be-all and end-all of asbestos training, they do at least come with a "Logo" that people recognise.

Rodger Ker

It depends on the type of training that you're referring to here.

Is it "awareness" level training as required for ALL employees who may have a need to recognise asbestos containing materials and/or undertake non-licensed and non-notifiable work? If so, as long as you are sufficiently competent [you decide], there is no bar to you providing.

However, to provide the necessary full training even at this level requires considerably more than simple knowledge of the A@W Regs. You will need a good understanding of the types and use of essential PPE and also ancillary skills.

This is still no bar to doing this in-house.

For Non-licensed but Notifiable, you could still probably achieve this in-house.

For Licensed work - I would say say not unless you are in an Asbestos Licensed business.

Frank Hallett

Thanks for the responses from everyone.

This is awareness training for installers who may come into contact with it. It is not just about saving costs. However the cost of having approximately 500 individuals undertaking the training is vast when there is no need for us to spend this money. I have attended awareness training from UKATA providers in the past and there is no reason why I cannot deliver this. I have a lot of knowledge and experience in practical terms of delivering this.

sdeans,

I prepared my own asbestos awareness training, based on requirements of Reg 10. This was for artwork installers who might come into contact with asbestos in walls.
I trained then 8 at a time with ppt, photos, samples. The final training was what to do if a) small amount suspect dust got onto clothing, shoes (wipe with wet cloth) b) significant amount suspect dust got onto clothing, shoes, hair, (needing shower). And all the necessary precautions, disposal etc
I produced an A4 Flowchart of what to do.
Also there was a 15 question test, multiple choice, this aims to show effectiveness of training. The training took 2 hours per session.
The training course was pre-approved by my customer's main client, a major pub owner in UK, who wanted text of their own policies included so I can't share the documents with you.
But hopefully you can approach this subject in a similar manner. Getting client's nod is useful.
John

Our approach =
For asbestos awareness training, in-house is fine and the HSE site has some excellent training tools. For non-licensed and notifiable non-licensed training we use UKATA providers. But also note that if UKATA do non-licensed or NNLW training they can combine awareness training and even face-fit testing for you.