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Silica Awareness

Learn where silica dust comes from on your job, and how to work safely around it. For construction workers, stonemasons, demolition contractors and excavation crews.

Issued by Edway Training (RTO 91401)

Certificate of Completion — not nationally recognisedStart anytime, work at your own paceStudy online, on any device

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Construction worker using a wet masonry saw to cut a concrete paver and control silica dust.

What this course covers

This course teaches you to recognise respirable crystalline silica dust hazards at work, and the safe work practices that control them. It is for workers, supervisors, contractors and employers who may be exposed to silica dust.

You finish with a Certificate of Completion, issued by Edway Training (RTO 91401).

  • What you'll learn
  • What silica is
  • The health effects of silica exposure
  • How you can be exposed to respirable crystalline silica dust
  • Control measures
  • Air monitoring
  • The laws and paperwork that apply
  • Health monitoring
DeliveryOnline, self-pacedYou do the whole course online, in your own time
CredentialSilica AwarenessCertificate of CompletionNot nationally recognised

Before you book

This course is delivered and assessed in English. You'll need enough English to take part. There's no formal language, literacy, numeracy and digital (LLND) check for this course — just make sure you're comfortable reading plain English before you book.

What you'll need

A computer or other device with an internet connection. You don't need any other course or qualification before this one.

Construction worker using a wet masonry saw to cut a concrete paver and control silica dust.

Your certificate, state by state

Tasmania
Certificate of Completion — non-accredited. It is not a nationally recognised qualification. Edway Training is listed by WorkSafe Tasmania as an approved crystalline silica training provider.
Other states
Certificate of Completion — non-accredited. It is not a nationally recognised qualification.

See the full details for your state.

How you'll train

Online, self-paced

Everything happens online, in your student account. You work through the course whenever it suits you, and there is no class to attend.

NSW · VIC · QLD · SA · WA · TAS · ACT · NT

Where you'll train

Tasmania
Online, self-pacedStart anytime
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Other states
Online, self-pacedStart anytime
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Training for a team, business or school?

In New South Wales or Victoria we can run Silica Awareness at your workplace or school, or book your group into one of our centres. Our business training team can talk it through.

Ask about group or onsite training

What happens after you book

  1. 1Check your emailYour confirmation email shows your student account login. It comes from no-reply@edway.edu.au. It usually arrives within a few minutes of booking.
  2. 2Set up your student accountLog in with the details in your confirmation email and set up your account.
  3. 3Start when you're readyWork through the course at your own pace. You have 2 months to finish.
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Construction worker using a wet masonry saw to cut a concrete paver and control silica dust.
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