Efficient and Reliable Asbestos Surveys and Management Plans in Warrington
Our committed Pillars Environmental team are highly-skilled in performing asbestos surveys in Warrington, helping dutyholder’s to evaluate the asbestos risk in their premises.
As stated by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), it is the building dutyholder’s responsibility to identify and manage the risk of asbestos within their property. This is a complicated task, which could be hazardous to achieve for those who have no previous experience with asbestos and asbestos containing materials (ACMs). This is where our expert team can offer their professional help across Warrington. At Pillars Environmental, we take pride in our reliability, efficiency and capacity to stay up to date with HSE legislation.
Asbestos Surveys in Warrington
We perform two different types of asbestos surveys:
The Refurbishment and Demolition Asbestos Survey (R&D Asbestos Survey) is a requirement for all buildings built pre-2000 where refurbishments or demolitions are due to take place. This is because refurbishments could potentially harm any asbestos-containing materials and therefore these must be detected before works can start. The R&D surveys involve more intrusive methods, meaning the building or the renovation area for testing must be assessed before the survey can commence.
An Asbestos Management Survey uses less invasive techniques than the R&D Asbestos Survey. Management surveys can be conducted by extracting smaller samples, for example inspecting ceiling tiles, and therefore the building can remain occupied throughout the course of the survey. It aims to highlight any asbestos-containing materials that may be disrupted during normal occupancy. Where accessible, these materials will be tested. If for any reason we cannot gain access, it would be assumed that asbestos is present. If material is discovered to contain asbestos, all other similar materials will then be presumed to contain asbestos also.
Asbestos Management Plans in Warrington
After the completion of your asbestos survey, an asbestos management plan can be put in place to document the responsibilities a dutyholder must undertake to ensure asbestos causes no harm to anybody who enters the building at any given time.
At Pillars Environmental, our Asbestos Management Plan is a document which specifies any asbestos containing materials discovered within the property and makes sure they are managed accordingly, in line with Health and Safety legislation. At each stage, somebody will be assigned, what the stage consists of and what sort of training might be needed to complete these stages successfully. Such actions include monitoring and reviewing, undertaking remedial works or removing.
Your tailored Asbestos Management Plan will provide you with the correct tools to control the risk of asbestos and grants you the ability to fulfil your legal obligations in managing the asbestos risks.
Asbestos Removal Management in Warrington
Like many other asbestos-related tasks, asbestos removal is an equally difficult job to undertake. Because of this, the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) states that a licensed contractor is needed for the majority of asbestos removal work. In compliance with the Control of Asbestos Regulations, the team at Pillars Environmental can direct and oversee the removal of any asbestos in your Warrington property. We can handle the job from beginning to end due to our comprehensive asbestos management service. This includes:
- Preparing the specifications,
- Managing the tendering process,
- Performing regular site audits whilst work is ongoing,
- Providing continuous feedback,
- Inspect documents provided by the removal contractor to ensure all information is correct and nothing is left outstanding.
Asbestos in Warrington
An industrial town located in Cheshire, Warrington is famous for being the heart of the Rugby League. Home to the Haliwell Jones Stadium, the stomping ground of the mighty Warrington Wolves, Warrington hosted the Rugby League World Cup in 2013. The town grew massively during the Industrial Revolution (1760-1840), especially after the River Mersey was made navigable in the 18th century. Soon becoming a manufacturing town – particularly for the steel, textiles, brewing, tanning and chemical industries – the navigational properties of the River Mersey were improved, canals were built and factories popped up across the town.
However, with industrial growth often came a higher risk of asbestos. Raw asbestos materials were frequently transported from place to place during the Industrial Revolution via shipyards, dockyards and canals. This material was then moved to various factories, which were surrounded by asbestos pipe and boiler lagging themselves.
Demographics Susceptible To Asbestos Exposure in Warrington
Built to transport coal to the growing industries of Liverpool, the Sankey Canal was the first ‘modern’ canal built in England, opening in Warrington in 1757. The canal network in the UK played a vital role in the Industrial Revolution, providing employment for tens of thousands of people in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. However, this employment came with serious health risks that handling raw asbestos from shipments would have caused for canal workers in Warrington. Due to the chronic nature of asbestos-related illnesses, such as mesothelioma, asbestosis and lung cancer, they can take decades to develop in one’s system – meaning those exposed to asbestos during its frequent use would only start noticing symptoms tens of years down the line.
This puts the following demographics in Warrington at risk (this is not an exhaustive list):
- Canal workers
- Factory workers
- Pipe fitters
- Boiler makers
- Builders
- Mechanics
- Engineers
- Electricians
- Plumbers
Working with you to provide a safe environment
Your safety and the safety of all those who may use your property are our number one priority. Our asbestos surveys are tailored to your unique circumstance to ensure all individual issues are addressed.
Our team will work alongside you to provide an expert service and make certain you always remain compliant with current legislation.
If you’d like to know how our team can help you, get in touch today or use our quick quote form above.
Our Manchester Office Also Covers…
Our asbestos survey services are available all across Greater Manchester and beyond, including:
- Altrincham
- Birkenhead
- Bolton
- Bury
- Buxton
- Cheshire
- Chester
- Crewe
- Holmes Chapel
- Alderley Edge
- Knutsford
- Liverpool
- Macclesfield
- Manchester
- Merseyside
- Oldham
- Rochdale
- Runcorn
- Sale
- Salford
- St Helens
- Stockport
- Tameside
- Trafford
- Warrington
- Widnes
- Wigan
- Wirral
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