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Asbestos Management

Reference: 24-25382

Date response sent: 08/12/2024

Details of enquiry

  1. How many buildings / blocks are you responsible for owning / managing from a maintenance perspective? (Include any under PFI contracts)
  2. How many of these buildings / blocks contain asbestos?
  3. How many Asbestos Containing Materials (ACMs) do you have? If you are uncertain, please provide an estimate.
  4. What format of asbestos register do you have? (e.g. paper based, Excel, internal database, externally digital, asbestos consultant system, survey reports etc.)
  5. Does your Trust have a dedicated person(s) to manage asbestos? If so how many roles.
  6. What is the job title of the person (or persons) who are responsible for managing asbestos day to day (not the Dutyholder)?
  7. Does this person / role solely cover asbestos or do they have other responsibilities?
  8. What asbestos / health & safety qualifications do those persons involved in the management of asbestos hold? (e.g.  Asbestos Awareness, NEBOSH, CoCA, P401, P402, P403, P404, P405, P406, P407, S301, W504 etc.)
  9. Does your Trust have external support for asbestos management? (Not including undertaking removal/ abatement, surveys, sampling, air monitoring, training etc.)
  10. Does your Trust employ an Independent Assessor / Authorised Person / Authorising Engineer for asbestos?
  11. Does your Trust undertake external audits of asbestos management?
  12. Do you undertake any of the following asbestos activities in-house – sampling, re-inspections, removal / abatement, training?
  13. Do you employ asbestos consultants?
  14. Do you require asbestos consultants to be UKAS accredited?
  15. If using consultants, what services do you get them to undertake? (e.g. management / refurbishment / demolition surveys, air monitoring & 4SC, specification writing, training etc.)
  16. If using consultants, how do you procure their services? (e.g. per job, approved list, national framework, internal framework, annual contract etc.)
  17. Within the last 3 years have you had issues with the standard or work undertaken by asbestos consultants?
  18. Do you employ Licensed Asbestos Removal Contractors (LARCs)?
  19. Do you employ Non-Licensed Asbestos Contractors?
  20. If using contractors, how do you procure their services? (e.g. per job, approved list, national framework, internal framework, annual contract etc.)
  21. Within the last 3 years have you had issues with the standard or work undertaken by asbestos removal contractors?

Response sent

  1. How many buildings / blocks are you responsible for owning / managing from a maintenance perspective? (Include any under PFI contracts)

Five

  1. How many of these buildings / blocks contain asbestos?

As all buildings are older than 2000, management plans have been developed for each site

  1. How many Asbestos Containing Materials (ACMs) do you have? If you are uncertain, please provide an estimate.

5 Presumed, 16 confirmed

  1. What format of asbestos register do you have? (e.g. paper based, Excel, internal database, externally digital, asbestos consultant system, survey reports etc.)

An asbestos consultant system with survey reports

  1. Does your Trust have a dedicated person(s) to manage asbestos? If so how many roles.

There is no dedicated person as the Trust, but a clear management structure, the Trust has a small number of buildings with clear policies and procedures.

  1. What is the job title of the person (or persons) who are responsible for managing asbestos day to day (not the Dutyholder)?

Hard FM Manager

  1. Does this person / role solely cover asbestos or do they have other responsibilities?

They have other responsibilities.

  1. What asbestos / health & safety qualifications do those persons involved in the management of asbestos hold? (e.g.  Asbestos Awareness, NEBOSH, CoCA, P401, P402, P403, P404, P405, P406, P407, S301, W504 etc.)

Building Surveys & Bulk Sampling-P402,  Duty to Manage COP407, UKATA-Asbestos Awareness

  1. Does your Trust have external support for asbestos management? (Not including undertaking removal/ abatement, surveys, sampling, air monitoring, training etc.)

Yes, an asbestos consultant who is part of our governance

  1. Does your Trust employ an Independent Assessor / Authorised Person / Authorising Engineer for asbestos?

The asbestos consultant acts as the authorising independent person

  1. Does your Trust undertake external audits of asbestos management?

Yes

  1. Do you undertake any of the following asbestos activities in-house – sampling, re-inspections, removal / abatement, training?

No, this is all outsourced

  1. Do you employ asbestos consultants?

Yes

  1. Do you require asbestos consultants to be UKAS accredited?

Yes

  1. If using consultants, what services do you get them to undertake? (e.g. management / refurbishment / demolition surveys, air monitoring & 4SC, specification writing, training etc.)

All of these, and demolition if required

  1. If using consultants, how do you procure their services? (e.g. per job, approved list, national framework, internal framework, annual contract etc.)

This varies on the size and complexity of the job

  1. Within the last 3 years have you had issues with the standard or work undertaken by asbestos consultants?

NO

  1. Do you employ Licensed Asbestos Removal Contractors (LARCs)?

Yes

  1. Do you employ Non-Licensed Asbestos Contractors?

Would use non-licensed contractors where guided to do so in low risk ACM items

  1. If using contractors, how do you procure their services? (e.g. per job, approved list, national framework, internal framework, annual contract etc.)

Via a national framework

  1. Within the last 3 years have you had issues with the standard or work undertaken by asbestos removal contractors?

Nothing has been noted to this effect

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