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Service Overview
Asbestos Survey (Type II)
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Essential Services
H+S Services:
- Health and Safety Audit
- General Risk Assessment
- Specific Risk Assessment
- Fire Risk Assessment
- Manual Handling Risk Assessment
- COSHH Risk Assessment
- Display Screen Equipment Assessment
- Noise Risk Assessment
- Asbestos Survey (Type II)
- Competent Contractors Audit
- Access Consultancy
- Portable Appliance Testing
Overview
It is illegal to use asbestos in new buildings or for maintaining existing buildings. The 'Control of Asbestos Regulations' place an obligation on owners, managers and occupiers of existing premises to manage the risk from asbestos or to cooperate with whoever is responsible for managing the risk.
Objectives
The aim of a Type II Asbestos Survey is, so far as is reasonably practicable, to locate and assess all Asbestos Containing Materials (ACMs) present in a building. The results of the survey are then presented in a report that enables the employer to manage the risks arising from the possible presence of ACMs.
The different ACMs identified in the building are assessed to determine type of asbestos and their potential to release fibres into the air, should they be disturbed.
Methodology
The Survey includes a site inspection during which the Surveyor looks for areas that are likely to contain ACMs. Locations such as boiler rooms, service risers and ducts (where easily accessible) are visually inspected, along with other rooms, stores etc. that fall within the remit of the survey.
Representative samples of suspected ACMs are sent for laboratory analysis. It is good practice to include samples from materials that may appear to the untrained eye to be ACMs even if the surveyor knows that they are free. The reason for this practice is that it provides reassurance to workers when they have conclusive evidence a material has been proven to be asbestos free.
All work is undertaken in accordance with the HSE's guidance document (MDHS100) 'Surveying, Sampling and Assessment of Asbestos Containing Materials', using BIOH P-402 trained surveyors.
Duration
The time required to undertake a type II Asbestos Survey can vary widely from a couple of days to a number of weeks, depending on factors such as:
- Size of building
- Ease of access to all parts of the premises
- Quantity of Asbestos Containing Materials found
- Material analysis tests