Asbestos Management & Removal
Anyone who manages a non-domestic premises has a duty to manage that particular working environment, in order to fully protect others who work in the premises, or indeed use them in other ways from any risks to potential ill health that the exposure to asbestos causes.
These duties include;
- - take reasonable steps to find out if there are materials containing asbestos in non-domestic premises, and if so, its amount, where it is and what condition it is in;
- - presume materials contain asbestos unless there is strong evidence that they do not;
- - make, and keep up-to-date, a record of the location and condition of the asbestos containing materials - or materials which are presumed to contain asbestos;
- - assess the risk of anyone being exposed to fibres from the materials identified;
- - prepare a plan that sets out in detail how the risks from these materials will be managed;
- - take the necessary steps to put the plan into action;
- - periodically review and monitor the plan and the arrangements to act on it so that the plan remains relevant and up-to-date; and
- - provide information on the location and condition of the materials to anyone who is liable to work on or disturb them.
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Asbestos Duties
The duty to manage covers all non-domestic premises. This includes all industrial, commercial or public buildings including factories, warehouses, offices, shops, hospitals and schools.
Non-domestic premises also include any ‘Common’ areas of certain domestic premises: purpose built flats or houses converted into flats. Common areas of these domestic premises include foyers, corridors, lifts (including lift-shafts), staircases, roof spaces, gardens, yards, garages and outhouses – but would exclude individual flats or apartments themselves. Common areas would not include rooms within a private residence that are shared by more than one household such as bathrooms, kitchens etc within shared houses and communal dining rooms and lounges in sheltered accommodation.
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Our Environmental Services division offers the following asbestos related services
- Asbestos Identification Surveys
- Asbestos Removal and Disposal
- Asbestos Collection and Disposal
- Asbestos Management
- Asbestos Monitoring
- Domestic asbestos Removal
- Household Asbestos removal
- 24 Hour Emergency Callout