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Agenda
• What is asbestos?
• The health risks associated with asbestos
• The uses of asbestos
• Prohibitions
• The Duties under the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006
• Asbestos surveys
• Air monitoring
• Your own safety
Jargon
• ACM = Asbestos Containing Material
• CAR = Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006
• Asbestos Regs = Control of Asbestos
Regulations 2006
• HSE = Health and Safety Executive
• HASWA = Health And Safety at Work Act 1974
What is asbestos?
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What is asbestos?
• Amosite (brown)
• Crocidolite (blue) Amphiboles
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The health risks associated
with asbestos
• Prolonged, frequent exposure may cause
illness
– Asbestosis is scaring of the lung
tissues
– Lung cancer
– Mesothelioma cancer of the lining to
the lungs and stomach
– Plural Thickening is where the lining of
the lung becomes thicker
• No symptoms for 15 to 60 years.
• Smoking increases the risk up to 90 times
The health risks associated
with asbestos
Anthophylite under electron microscope
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Projected deaths
Source: Explanatory
Source: Explanatory Notes to the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006 Notes to the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006
Who is at risk?
Regulation 10
• Demolition contractors
• Roofing contractors
The duty to give asbestos
• Construction workers awareness training to those
• Heating and ventilation engineers who are likely to disturb it.
• Telecom/computing installation engineers
• General maintenance staff
• Electricians
• Painters and decorators
• Joiners
• Plumbers/gas fitters
• Plasterers
• Building Surveyors
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Why was asbestos used?
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Where am I likely to find asbestos?
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Where am I likely to find asbestos?
• 1970’s Domestic
dwelling
Where am I likely to find asbestos?
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Where am I likely to find asbestos?
ohoto taken
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1980 (ish)
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Where am I likely to find asbestos?
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Where am I likely to find asbestos?
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Where am I likely to find asbestos?
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Signage
Prohibitions on the use of asbestos
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Prohibitions
• Late 1880s HM Factory Inspector, Lucy Deane,
noticed increased incidents of lung disease
among asbestos workers.
• Voluntary industry ban on Crocidolite – 1972
• Asbestos Prohibitions Regulations – 1985 and
1988 banned the importation and use of
amphiboles (Amosite and Crocidolite).
• Total ban on the use and importation of all
asbestos – 24th November 1999
The duties under the Control of Asbestos
Regulations 2006
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The Control of Asbestos Regulations
2006 (CAR 2006)
A duty holder is defined as:
• any person who has an obligation to maintain
a non-domestic premises or any means of
access thereto or egress therefrom, or
• any person who has control over a non-
domestic premises.
The Control of Asbestos Regulations
2006 (CAR 2006)
Regulation 4: The duty to manage asbestos in non-domestic
premises
• Take reasonable steps to identify whether asbestos is
present and if so it’s quantity and condition.
• Presume materials contain asbestos unless there is
evidence that they do not.
• Assess the risk of anyone being exposed to airborne
asbestos fibres.
• Prepare an Asbestos Plan – periodically reviewed and
revised to ensure the information is current.
• Provide information on the location and condition of any
asbestos present to anyone who is liable to disturb them.
Who is the Duty Holder in tenanted
buildings
The Control of Asbestos Regulations
2006 (CAR 2006)
Regulation 5
An employer shall not undertake work in demolition, or
maintenance, or any other work which exposes or is liable
to expose his employees/contractors/visitors to asbestos…
• Unless he has carried out a suitable and sufficient
assessment as to whether asbestos is present or is liable
to be present.
• If there is doubt whether asbestos is present then the
employer must assume it is and take the appropriate
precautions.
The Control of Asbestos Regulations
2006 (CAR 2006)
• All work on ACMs
must usually be
carried out by a
licensed contractor.
• HSE must be
notified of
significant work to
ACMs
How the Control of Asbestos Regulations
affects you
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Three types of asbestos survey
As defined by :-
HSG 264 Asbestos: The survey guide
published January 2010
(Formerly: MDHS 100)
Three types of asbestos survey
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Air Monitoring
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Air Monitoring
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Safe Working Limits
• CAR 2006 defines the Control Limit as
0.1 f/cm3 TWA
• This means : 0.1 fibres per cubic centimetre of
air measured over a Time Weighted Average
of 4 hrs.
Air Monitoring
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Your own safety
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What to do if you suspect you have
discovered damaged asbestos
• Leave it alone!
• Alert colleagues and clear the
area.
• Report it to the person
responsible for the premises,
who should then seal the area
and arrange to make the
materials safe.
What to do if you believe you have
been exposed to asbestos