New asbestos training, certification, licensing, and identification requirements
<\/strong>WorkSafeBC is implementing mandatory training and licensing for asbestos abatement work to help keep workers safe from the danger of asbestos. As of January 1, 2024, asbestos abatement contractors must be licensed to operate in British Columbia, and anyone performing asbestos abatement work must complete mandatory safety training and obtain certificates. — From WorkSafeBC website.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThere are also guideline revisions about how to safely identify asbestos, which are summarized in \u201c10 Steps to Complying with Asbestos Abatement Requirements\u201d. For many years, as industry leaders in safety, First Onsite has been educating and guiding our industry partners on the regulations surrounding hazardous materials identification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“First Onsite eagerly welcomes the changes to safeguard B.C. workers from health issues associated with asbestos exposure\u201d said Erik Hecht, Regional Vice President of B.C., FIRST ONSITE Property Restoration. \u201cWe know that asbestos is a leading cause of workplace fatalities and we have always taken a very serious and comprehensive approach to training our employees on all aspects of asbestos identification and management in order to protect the health of our employees and anyone who is occupying the buildings that we perform work in. The new licensed training requirements will protect workers in our industry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First Onsite\u2019s involvement: providing an industry voice
<\/strong>First Onsite worked closely with WorkSafeBC, training providers, and industry safety leaders throughout the development of this new legislation to ensure that the company provided an industry voice in the many stakeholder consultation sessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cOur teams have a lot of experience in different aspects of asbestos management, and it was important for our company to contribute our industry perspective to the consultation sessions with WorkSafeBC\u201d, says Erik Hecht.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For years, even prior to the new requirements being introduced, First Onsite has been providing practical training to all project managers, supervisors, and workers in asbestos and all other hazardous materials. The company had already invested in employee training in surveying, handling, and managing asbestos prior to the new certified training requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBecause of our history and heavy investment into comprehensive asbestos training, our managers, supervisors and workers are competent in their knowledge of the legislation and the procedures for managing hazardous materials. We always done the right thing and we are ready for this new era.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":2606,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"First Onsite is Prepared for New British Columbia Asbestos Legislation Being Introduced January 1","_seopress_titles_desc":"First Onsite Property Restoration's response to new BC Asbestos Legislation introduced on January 1, 2024","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[95,93,96],"resource-type":[51],"class_list":["post-3227","resource","type-resource","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fos-update-articles","tag-asbestos","tag-news","tag-press-release","resource-type-news"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":76,"label":"First Onsite Updates"}],"post_tag":[{"value":95,"label":"Asbestos"},{"value":93,"label":"News"},{"value":96,"label":"Press Release"}],"resource-type":[{"value":51,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/firstonsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/preparedness-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"First Onsite","author_link":"https:\/\/firstonsite.com\/author\/first-onsite\/"},"comment_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstonsite.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource\/3227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstonsite.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstonsite.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/resource"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstonsite.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstonsite.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstonsite.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstonsite.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstonsite.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3227"},{"taxonomy":"resource-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstonsite.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource-type?post=3227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}