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Are you prepared for new asbestos survey guidance?
Revised Health and Safety Executive (HSE) guidance for asbestos surveys is likely to come into force in the autumn.
And it will affect you if you have any responsibility for the maintenance of commercial premises.
The current guidance, known as MDHS 100, is likely to be revised.
This won’t just affect asbestos survey and removal companies like Kershaw Contracting Services.
It will also affect anyone who is a duty holder – that is a person or organisation with statutory duty to manage non-domestic premises so that the people who use the building are at no risk of asbestos.
Current thinking suggests the new guidance will set out two types of surveys. The management survey will be designed to locate asbestos so it can be correctly managed.
And the refurbishment/demolition survey will be much more intrusive; designed to locate all asbestos so it can be removed before work starts.
The new guidelines are likely to impose an obligation on the duty holder to check the competency of the surveyor. This will include checking past work and establishing if they are capable of doing the work.
Kershaw Contracting Services is a member of the Asbestos Removal Contractors Association (ARCA), and can advise on all aspects of asbestos surveys and removal.
