Devon - Commercial Asbestos Management Surveys - 01392 919 013

The office that covers this area is: Plymouth

The towns & cities that are covered within this county are:
Abbotskerswell, Ashburton, Ashton, Axminster, Barnstaple, Beaworthy, Bideford, Bovey Tracey, Bradninch, Braunton, Brixham, Buckfastleigh, Budleigh Salterton, Challacombe, Chudleight, Chulmleigh, Colyton, Combe Martin, Crediton, Cullompton, Dartmouth, Dawlish, Exeter, Exmouth, Heathfield, Hemyock, Holsworthy, Honiton, Ilfracombe, Ivybridge, Kingsbridge, Kingsteignton, Lifton, Lympstone, Lynmouth, Lynton, Marlborough, Marldon, Moretonhampstead, Newton Abbot, Okehampton, Ottery St. Mary, Paignton, Plymouth, Salcombe, Seaton, Shaldon, Sidmouth, South Brent, South Molton, Tavistock, Teignmouth, Tiverton, Torquay, Torrington, Totnes, Umberleigh, Westward Ho!, Winkleigh, Woolacombe, Yelverton,

Phone Number: 01392 919 013 Email: devon@e2consultants.co.uk

Asbestos_Survey is sometimes referred to as Fire Safety, Fire Risk Assessment, Fire Risk Assessment, Fire Risk Assessment, Fire Risk Assessment.

Surveyor Qualifications

Each member of our asbestos team are holders of the BOHS (British Occupational Hygiene Society) P402 qualification - the statutory proficiency certificate in 'Building Surveys and Bulk Sampling for Asbestos'. Our experienced and professional consultants are here to help so if you have any queries please call us on 01392 919 013 or send your query to Asbestos-Survey@e2consultants.co.uk.

Our experienced asbestos team that covers Devon are qualified asbestos management, refurbishment and demolition surveyors for industrial, commercial and domestic buildings. We can also undertake a Commercial EPC at the same time to provide you with a cost-effective package deal where needed.

What's Involved In An Asbestos Survey?

For a refurbishment/demolition, or type 3, survey, a more destruction method is used over a management survey, as the name suggests. One of our asbestos surveyors will use means such as drilling floor slabs or knocking through walls to access areas where planned work will be undertaken. This ensures that when the building is converted of knocked down that the next team in won't risk running into any asbestos that could be hazardous to their health and slow the project.

An asbestos management, or type 2, survey will have one of surveyors taken samples of suspected asbestos throughout a building before sending them off to a lab. Whilst at the property, each room and the materials used will be noted. If a room is locked or otherwise inaccessible this will be noted too as there will remain a possibility of asbestos within.

What Is Asbestos?

Though three types have been widely used in building materials there are actually types of asbestos. The main ones are Chrysotile (white), Amosite (brown) and Crocidolite (blue). Blue is usually the most dangerous followed by brown and then white.

The trade and use of asbestos has been restricted or banned in many jurisdictions in Devon. Asbestos is basically a set of six naturally occurring silicate minerals used for their desirable physical properties. Though mined from rock, when broken down it breaks apart into tiny fibres.

Where Can Asbestos Be Found?

Generally speaking, people through Devon think Asbestos is just for insulation and found in the roof or a wall. Though true, Asbestos can also be used in toilet cisterns, Artex, water tanks (pre-1980), fire insulation, floor tiles, boilers and flash guards.

Asbestos Legislation

A risk assessment must be undertaking by employeers for employees when work is likely to involve asbestos. This should include a plan of how the work is to be carried out as well as outline, and provide solutions to, any asbestos-related issues that may occur. All information must be kept up-to-date and available to anyone who may work or disturb the asbestos containing material (ACM).

The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 (Reg 4) places an explicit duty on those responsible (the duty holder) for any commercial premises to identify and manage asbestos containing materials that may be present in the property.