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Posts from ‘April, 2010’

Refurbishment Surveys

Refurbishment surveys often cause some confusion with clients. The extract below is from page 9 of the managing asbestos guide on the HSE website:
Before doing any work which may disturb asbestos materials, you must either:

get expert help to test if asbestos is present or absent (See guidance below on types of survey, brownfield sites and [...]

Manage domestic premises?

We receive many queries relating to asbestos surveys in non domestic premises. Below is the relevant section from within  Health and Safety Executive guidance (HSG264 Asbestos: The Survey Guide).
The ‘duty to manage asbestos’ requirements of regulation 4 of CAR 2006 do not normally apply to domestic premises. However, the requirements do apply to common parts [...]

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