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Asbestos Surveys

Green Contract Services provide a comprehensive range of asbestos surveys to enable the people who control premises to meet their obligations to asbestos in the most efficient and cost effective manner, and in accordance with the HSE Guidance HSG264.

By carrying out an asbestos survey, a risk assessment can be produced that should prevent or reduce exposure by highlighting the presence of the product before work commences. The ultimate aim of a survey is to prevent many unnecessary deaths in years to come by assessing and controlling potentially hazardous working environments.

Gathering Information using Surveys

The two basic types of asbestos surveys are outlined in HSG264 – Asbestos The Surveyors Guide. The theory behind each of the survey types has been greatly simplified to aid the selection process, however, Green Contract Services can offer services tailored to meet client and site specific requirements. Assuming a material is free from asbestos when it is not could result in prosecution if workers are exposed. During a survey, information is gathered on aspects of the item under investigation such as its location, condition, product type and associated occupant activity and likelihood of disturbance.

Any type of asbestos survey can be undertaken.

Management Survey

This survey is includes a walkaround inspection of the premises coupled with representative sampling of suspected asbestos containing materials which will be taken for laboratory analysis. It is good practice to take samples from materials that may appear, to the untrained eye, to be an asbestos containing material even when the surveyor knows that they are free.

Refurbishment/Demolition Survey

This is an extension of the Management survey, usually performed prior to major refurbishment or demolition. This type of survey aims to find all asbestos containing materials in a building by the use of destructive, intrusive methods.

Case Study

The client needed to comply with Regulation 4 of The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006 – The Management of Materials Containing Asbestos in Non-domestic Premises.