Talk to a consultant
Call 0208 088 8371, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. If you are ringing about a building you are standing in, step out of the room first, then tell us what you can see: the material, its condition, and whether anyone has been working near it in the last few days.
Outside those hours, email info@asbestosinspection.co.uk. Give us the postcode, roughly when the building went up, what it is used for now, and what work is planned. Those four lines settle most of what would otherwise take twenty minutes on the phone.
What we will ask you first
Age of the building, then intended work. Almost everything else follows from those two answers. Blue and brown asbestos were banned from supply in 1985, white asbestos in 1999, so anything built or refitted before 2000 is treated as suspect until analysis says otherwise. I have pulled asbestos insulating board out of a 1997 office fit-out, so build dates are a starting point rather than a defence.
If the building is simply in use and you hold the duty to manage under the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012, a management survey is normally the right instrument. If you are lifting floors, stripping ceilings or taking anything down, that management survey will not carry you: refurbishment and demolition work needs the intrusive survey described in HSE guidance HSG264, and it needs booking while the fabric can still be opened up, not the week the contractors are due.
The other question worth putting to us early is what you already hold. Plenty of buildings have a survey in a drawer from 2009 that nobody has looked at since, and it is often more useful than the owner expects, or considerably less.
Ring the office and describe the building. Ten minutes usually tells you whether you need a survey, a sample or nothing at all.
If you have found something damaged
Do not wait for an appointment to act. Fibre release comes from disturbance, not from the material sitting there, so the first job is to stop the disturbance and keep people out until someone competent has looked at it.
Found damaged material you think may contain asbestos? Stop work and keep people away from the area. Do not disturb, sweep or vacuum the material. Obtain competent advice before doing anything else.
Company details
| Registered name | Box4 Digital Group Ltd |
|---|---|
| Company number | 17253991 |
| Registered office | Suite 114b, Business First, Davyfield Road, Blackburn BB1 2QY |
Complaints and privacy
If something has gone wrong, our complaints procedure explains how we will handle it. For how we use and share the information you give us, see our privacy policy.
We are an independent consultancy: survey, sampling and removal work is carried out by the vetted professionals we appoint.