Asbestos Surveys In Essex

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Asbestos SurVEYs in Essex

Asbestos Surveys – What type of Asbestos Survey will I need?

From Sampling to a full Refurbishment and Demolition Asbestos Survey’s Envirosurv will tailor each survey to your requirements, our clients’ needs are always at the forefront of what we do to ensure their peace of mind together with a quality service. we provide Asbestos Management Surveys for Essex, all surveys are undertaken in accordance with HSE documentation HSG264, trained to The British Occupational Hygiene Society’s (BOHS) safety standards.

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Management Asbestos Surveys in Essex:

A Management asbestos survey is a standard survey, and its purpose is to locate, as far as reasonably practicable, the presence and extent of any suspect ACM’s (Asbestos Containing Materials). This includes buildings which could be damaged or disturbed during normal occupancy, including foreseeable maintenance and installation, and to assess their condition.

A Management Surveys may often involve minor intrusive work and some disturbance.  The extent of intrusion will vary between premises and depend on what is reasonably practicable for individual properties, i.e., it will depend on factors such as the type of building, the nature of construction, accessibility etc.  

A Management Survey should include an assessment of the condition of the various ACM’s and their ability to release fibres into the air if they are disturbed in some way.  This ‘material assessment’ will give a good initial guide to the priority for managing ACMs as it will identify the materials which will most readily release airborne fibres if they are disturbed.

The survey will usually involve sampling and analysis to confirm the presence or absence of a any ACM’s.  However, a Management Survey can also involve presuming the presence or absence of asbestos.  

A Management Survey can be completed using a combination of sampling ACMs and presuming ACMs or indeed, just presuming.  Any materials presumed to contain asbestos must also have their condition assessed (i.e., a material assessment).

Refurbishment & Demolition Asbestos Survey:

A Refurbishment and Demolition Asbestos Survey is needed before any refurbishment or demolition works is carried out.  This type of survey is used to locate and describe, as far as reasonably practicable, all ACMs in the area where the refurbishment work will take place or in the whole building if demolition is planned.  

The survey will be fully intrusive and involve destructive inspection as necessary, to gain access to all areas, including those that may be difficult to reach.  A refurbishment and demolition survey may also be required in other circumstances, e.g., when more intrusive maintenance and repair work will be carried out or for plant removal or dismantling.

There is a specific requirement in CAR2012 for all ACMs to be removed as far as reasonably practicable before major refurbishment or final demolition works are carried out. Removing ACMs is also appropriate in other smaller refurbishment situations which involve structural or layout changes to buildings (e.g., removal of partitions, walls, units etc). Under CDM, the survey information should be used to help in the tendering process for removal of ACMs from the building works starts.  

The survey report should be supplied by the client to designers and contractors who may be bidding for the work, so that the asbestos risks can be addressed. 

In this type of survey, where the asbestos is identified so that it can be removed (rather than to ‘manage’ it), the survey does not normally assess the condition of the asbestos, other than to indicate areas of damage or where additional asbestos debris may be present.  However, where the asbestos removal may not take place for some time, the ACMs’ condition will need to be assessed and the materials managed.  

Refurbishment and demolition surveys are intended to locate all the asbestos in the building (or the relevant part), as far as reasonably practicable.  It is a disruptive and fully intrusive survey which may need to penetrate all parts of the building structure.  

Aggressive inspection techniques will be needed to lift carpets and tiles, break through walls, ceilings, cladding and partitions, and open floors.  In these situations, controls should be put in place to prevent the spread of debris, which may include asbestos.  

Refurbishment and demolition surveys should only be conducted in unoccupied areas to minimise risks to the public or employees on the premises.  Ideally, the building should not be in service and all furnishings removed.  

For minor refurbishment, this would only apply to the room involved or even part of the room where the work is small and the room large., In these situations, there should be effective isolation of the survey area (e.g., full floor to ceiling partition), and furnishings should be removed as far as possible or protected using sheeting.  

The ‘surveyed’ area must be shown to be fit for reoccupation before people move back in.  This will require a thorough visual inspection and, if appropriate (e.g., where there has been significant destruction), reassurance air sampling with disturbance. Under no circumstances should staff remain in rooms or areas of buildings when instructive sampling is performed.

“Envirosurv do not undertake any analysis themselves and do not operate or own a scope analysis company.  All asbestos samples are analysed by an independent UKAS Accredited Laboratory assuring that there is no conflict of interest”.

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Home-Owners – Pre purchase – Landlords (Duty Holder) - Residential Asbestos survey:

From Sampling to a full Refurbishment and Demolition Asbestos Survey’s Envirosurv will tailor each survey to your requirements, our clients’ needs are always at the forefront of what we do to ensure their peace of mind together with a quality service. All surveys are undertaken in accordance with HSE documentation HSG264, trained to The British Occupational Hygiene Society’s (BOHS) safety standards.

Contact our friendly professional team today for a free consultation and quotation.

Duty Holder are Responsible for:

To take reasonable steps to determine the location of materials that may contain asbestos

Presume materials that may contain asbestos, unless there is good reason not to do so

Make and maintain a written record of the locations of all confirmed and presumed Asbestos Containing Materials

Assess and monitor the condition of confirmed and presumed Asbestos Containing Materials

Assess the risk of exposure from all confirmed and presumed Asbestos Containing Materials and ensure that any measures necessary to manage the risk i.e. in the form of a Management Plan

Ensure measures are actioned

Sampling Asbestos Survey & Single Bulk Sampling

If you know exactly where you need samples to be taken and are looking to target specific areas of interest rather than having a full survey, then a targeted sample survey would fit your needs. 

Once all samples have been analysed by an independent UKAS Accredited Laboratory, the customer will receive a Certificate for the Identification of asbestos fibres showing the results of the tests and what type of asbestos containing material they are.

Real Time – Surveying tracking system – Our live integrated portal system is a useful asset for our local authorities, housing associations, and those companies with a large property portfolio, we can provide you with access to our portal. This operates on real time and allows you access to your asbestos survey report, see the most up-to-date asbestos data in a searchable, easy-to-view register which you can print, and store as required. 

The portal is an excellent compliance management tool with features to track remedial actions, approved contractors and store vital policy and procedure documents.

Sampling Asbestos Survey & Single Bulk Sampling

Bulk Sampling analysis is usually carried out to ensure compliance with Control of Asbestos Regulations, and, can be used as part of the duty to manage asbestos under regulation 4. Its purpose to collect samples of any suspect materials to determine whether any ACM’s are present and what type.

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