Asbestos Awareness Training in New Brunswick: Online Course
Asbestos Awareness Training, $24.99 CAD
A 30 to 40 minute online course that covers the asbestos awareness concepts that New Brunswick General Regulation 91-191, Part III.1 (sections 25.3 to 25.5) expects New Brunswick workers to understand: where asbestos hides in buildings built before 1990, friable versus non-friable material, how exposure causes disease, what to do when you find suspect material, and why abatement is left to trained crews.
- Instant access after checkout, self-paced, works on any device
- Developed by CRSP-certified safety professionals
- Printable certificate of completion with verification code
- 30-day money-back guarantee
- Awareness level: pairs with your employer's site-specific procedure
What this course is (and is not)
It is awareness-level training: the shared knowledge every trades worker, maintenance worker, supervisor and property manager needs to recognize suspect asbestos-containing material and stop before disturbing it. It covers the concepts in New Brunswick General Regulation 91-191, Part III.1 (sections 25.3 to 25.5) in plain language, with quizzes and a final assessment.
It is not an abatement worker certificate, an asbestos removal licence, or a substitute for the risk assessment and work procedures that removal work requires. New Brunswick regulates abatement separately, and this course does not qualify anyone to remove, repair or disturb asbestos-containing material. We do not claim the course meets or satisfies the regulation on its own; your employer pairs it with an asbestos inventory, site procedures and supervision.
Buying for a crew? Corporate accounts let you assign seats and track completions. Need help building an asbestos inventory or management plan? Talk to a consultant.
What New Brunswick Requires for Asbestos
General Regulation (N.B. Reg. 91-191) under the Occupational Health and Safety Act, Part III.1, Code of Practice for Asbestos, sections 25.3 to 25.5, adopting A Code of Practice for Working with Materials Containing Asbestos in New Brunswick, in plain language.
In New Brunswick, asbestos is governed by Part III.1, Code of Practice for Asbestos, of General Regulation 91-191 under the Occupational Health and Safety Act, sections 25.3 to 25.5. The Part was added by New Brunswick Regulation 2022-27, which at the same time revoked the stand-alone Regulation 92-106 that had done the job since 1992. The substance of the rules lives in a document the Regulation adopts by reference: A Code of Practice for Working with Materials Containing Asbestos in New Brunswick, prepared and amended from time to time by WorkSafeNB.
Definition (section 25.3). Asbestos means any of the six regulated fibrous silicates: chrysotile, amosite, crocidolite, actinolite, anthophyllite and tremolite.
Duty to adopt and follow the code of practice (section 25.4). An owner of a place of employment, an employer and a contractor must each adopt the WorkSafeNB code of practice for employees who work with, in proximity to, or disturb material containing asbestos. Each of them must follow the code and ensure employees follow it. Because the duty attaches to proximity and disturbance, not only removal, it reaches the trades, maintenance and custodial workers who encounter suspect material during ordinary work.
Employee duty (section 25.5). An employee to whom the code of practice applies must follow it.
What the code of practice covers. The June 2023 edition of WorkSafeNB's code covers inspection and determination of asbestos (section 3), an asbestos management program (section 4), low, moderate and high risk operations and their procedures (sections 5 to 7, including removal, clean-up, clearance sampling and encapsulation), education, instruction and training (section 8), notification of high risk projects (section 9) and prohibitions (section 10). It works to the occupational exposure limit of 0.1 fibres per cubic centimetre. The procedure-level training it describes for moderate and high risk work is not the same thing as awareness training.
Related Parts of Regulation 91-191. Respiratory protective equipment, protective clothing, ventilation and the general hazard duties elsewhere in the Regulation apply alongside Part III.1, and the Occupational Health and Safety Act's general duty to take every reasonable precaution underpins all of it.
Enforcement, the code of practice, prevention resources and workplace injury insurance are all handled by WorkSafeNB.
This summary is for awareness only and is not legal advice. Always read the current consolidated text on the official site linked above.
Who Needs Asbestos Awareness Training in New Brunswick
Anyone who renovates, demolishes, maintains, inspects or cleans buildings built before 1990, and the supervisors and property managers who send them in.
- Renovation, restoration and demolition contractors
- Property management, building maintenance and custodial staff
- Plumbers, electricians, HVAC and drywall trades
- Roofing, siding and flooring installers
- Municipal, school district and health network maintenance
- Pulp mill, refinery and plant maintenance crews
- Insurance restoration and disaster recovery
- Home inspectors, realtors and appraisers
Also relevant for joint health and safety committee members, new and young workers, and contractors bidding on New Brunswick renovation, facility maintenance or demolition work who need documented awareness training before mobilizing.
Asbestos Awareness Training New Brunswick FAQs
Is asbestos awareness training mandatory in New Brunswick?
Section 25.4 of Regulation 91-191 requires owners, employers and contractors to adopt and follow WorkSafeNB's code of practice for employees who work with, in proximity to, or disturb material containing asbestos, and section 25.5 requires those employees to follow it. The code of practice sets training expectations by level of work. Employers meet the expectation for trades and maintenance workers by pairing awareness training with the code's identification and procedure requirements. This course supplies the awareness half.
Does this course let me remove asbestos in New Brunswick?
No. WorkSafeNB's code of practice describes the procedure-level training, enclosures, respiratory protection and clearance that removal work requires, and section 25.4 makes following it mandatory. This is an awareness-level course; it does not qualify anyone to remove, repair or disturb asbestos-containing material. On passing the final quiz you receive a printable certificate of completion with a verification code.
Did New Brunswick repeal its asbestos regulation?
Regulation 92-106, the Code of Practice for Working with Material Containing Asbestos Regulation, was revoked on May 20, 2022, but the duty did not disappear. New Brunswick Regulation 2022-27 moved it into Part III.1 of General Regulation 91-191, sections 25.3 to 25.5, which still adopt A Code of Practice for Working with Materials Containing Asbestos in New Brunswick as amended by WorkSafeNB from time to time.
Who does the New Brunswick asbestos code of practice apply to?
Section 25.4 applies it to employees who work with, in proximity to, or disturb material containing asbestos, and places the duty to adopt and enforce it on the owner of the place of employment, the employer and the contractor together. That reach is why awareness training matters for tradespeople and maintenance staff who are not abatement workers but may open a wall, ceiling or pipe chase in an older building.
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