The Asbestos Surveyors Guide
The Asbestos Surveyors Guide has been prepared by the Health and Safety Executive (and others) to assist in compliance with the “duty-to-manage” asbestos in premises (part of the Control of Asbestos Regulations (CAR) 2006). The guide is also designed to assist in situations where asbestos surveys are carried out in domestic premises.
The guide may also be helpful where surveys are necessary to meet the requirements of the Construction (Design and Management) (CDM) Regulations 2007.
The Asbestos Surveyors Guide is aimed at two main audiences:
(1) It is aimed at Asbestos Surveyors who carry out surveys particularly as part of Managing Asbestos but also for surveys in domestic premises where the duty-to-manage asbestos is implicit under wider health and safety legislation. It sets out how to survey premises for asbestos containing materials (ACMs). In particular, it specifies the methodology to use in carrying out surveys and how to report and present the results.
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The Asbestos Surveyors Guide – Asbestos Survey Guidance MDHS100
New HSG guidance document, “Asbestos surveyors Guide – Surveying, sampling and assessment of asbestos-containing materials. (Out Aug 2009)
The new asbestos survey guidance document, “Asbestos surveyors Guide – Surveying, sampling and assessment of asbestos-containing materials aims to help asbestos surveyors and duty holders ensure that proposed asbestos survey methods and procedures are appropriate for the situation and are able to be managed in sound and operational for all asbestos survey situations.
There are currently 3 methods of Asbestos survey as described within the surveyors guide (MDHS 100) a Type 1 asbestos survey, Type 2 asbestos survey and Type 3 asbestos survey of which in the near future, (subject to approval by HSE) will be revised to include 2 types of asbestos survey namely “management surveys” and “demolition/refurbishment” surveys.
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