Want to find out more concerning the risks of asbestos?
If you want to find out more concerning the risks of asbestos, including information on asbestos laws in the UK, take a look at "The Asbestos Harzards Handbook "
Asbestos exposure can lead to asbestos illnesses such as Mesothelioma that have serious health implications.
Controllers of premises and building managers have explicit duties to identify, assess and manage asbestos materials in their buildings. This is due to the Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations 2006 (amendment).
By using a professional asbestos surverying consultants such as ourselves, we are able to assess any risk and help calculate asbestos removal costs should work be required by a contractor.
All of our surveyors are highly experienced and qualified to both the basis P402 and more advanced S301 award, eventually gaining CCP (Certified Competent Person in asbestos) status.
One of the most important aspects for assuring quality of surveying work and satisfying the clients civil and statutory duty of care is ensuring that the selected asbestos surveying company have an effective quality management system.
Controllers of premises commissioning asbestos surveys should be wary of the many unscrupulous organisations offering this service:
Relatively inexperienced and minimally qualified entrepreneurs, have gained the two-day P402 asbestos surveying course in order to capitalise upon the imminent Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations 2002.
Asbestos surveying is a very involved discipline, requiring a great deal of specialist knowledge and practical experience.
For clients to be assured of a quality service, surveyors working on their behalf should hold the P402, S301 and Oral Examination in asbestos (leading to CCP status) and work under a UKAS accredited quality management system.
Our surveyors are regularly audited internally and independently, with a percentage of surveyed buildings being re-surveyed by our Quality Manager in order to verify performance.
Many organisations offering low-cost asbestos surveys do not hold sufficient public liability and professional indemnity insurance. Such companies or individuals operate with significantly lower overheads, thus being able to offer more competitive quotations. However, their clients are very vulnerable of incurring huge uninsured losses, in the event of liability.
DMW Health and Safety can prepare for you a fully comprehensive asbestos register incorporating the following :
Our consultants are experienced in the identification of asbestos materials within buildings and work to the highest standards.
DMW Health and Safety can also supply survey data hardcopy format or in electronic form (e-mail or CD).
DMW Health and Safety also use a proprietary database system specifically designed to hold survey assessment data in an accessible and amendable form. Should the client wish to purchase a license for this software, data may be downloaded directly into the database.
