The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006 state that all duty holders with known or presumed asbestos within their premises must have an effective written asbestos management plan in place.
What is a management plan?
An asbestos management plan is a document that identifies the risk posed by asbestos present and sets out procedures to control these risks. A management plan is a regulatory requirement that uses the data accumulated from asbestos surveys to manage the asbestos.
An asbestos management plan will typically include:
Policies and procedures for emergencies, refurbishments,
day-to-day operations and for less usual work or tasks
Key asbestos information – usually from an asbestos survey
Risk assessments of each occurrence of asbestos
Action plan
Monitoring & re-inspection regimes
Training requirements
Roles & responsibilities
Dissemination of information
Duties of the Asbestos Coordinator
As a minimum, the arrangements within the plan should be reviewed every six months in accordance with the HSC (Health and Safety Council) Approved Code of Practice. Our Management Plan Team Redhills has a dedicated compliance department that works with our clients to produce bespoke plans. A member of our compliance team can contact you to discuss your requirements for asbestos management, your responsibilities and any existing arrangements in place. If you are unsure of where your company stands regarding compliance, you can opt for a desktop study that will clearly identify any gaps, if they exist, and offer a step by step guide to compliance.
With a comprehensive understanding of your needs, we will produce a tailored asbestos management plan in accordance with current regulations that will help you to manage the asbestos within your property compliantly and proportionately to the risk.
In addition, we are able to offer an implementation meeting to aid the initial setup of the processes involved in the management of asbestos materials. We also offer reviews of your management plan on a six-monthly basis to ensure your ongoing compliance with legislation.
Key steps to your asbestos management plan:
Consultation: to assess your requirements and study of existing data and arrangements
Preparation of asbestos management plan
Review of your plan with you to discuss its impact and ensure
recommendations meet with your needs
Meeting with you to explain the details of the management plan and its implementation
Six-monthly review of management plan – a service we can offer
you or you can conduct in-house.
Asbestos Policies
Redhills has a consultancy team committed to producing client-specific policies. The client benefits from the experience our policy team has of tailoring policies to many different businesses and associations.
What is an asbestos policy?
An Asbestos Policy provides a framework for asbestos management and acknowledges the organisation’s responsibilities regarding asbestos.
An effective policy should include the following:
Introduction
Policy statement
Compliance strategy
Asbestos records
Personnel responsible for asbestos management
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