Your Duty to Manage ACM Asbestos and Where it is Found You have a responsibility of keeping yourself and those around you, i.e. your family and friends, safe from danger, regardless of where you live in the world. It’s your duty. This duty extends to the minimisation of health risks from ACM asbestos in the…
Category: Asbestos Surveys
What are the Best Practices for Reducing Asbestos Exposure Risks?
Despite being banned in the UK for many years, the threat of asbestos exposure still looms at the worksite and at homes. It remains a public concern for which preventive actions should be taken. Asbestos exposure has been linked with various lung diseases including asbestosis, mesothelioma, and fatal lung cancer. In order to reduce the…
What Should you know About Secondary Asbestos Exposure?
Occupational asbestos exposure is responsible for serious lung diseases. Various studies have found a clear link between lung cancer and asbestos exposure at the work site. Exposure to asbestos at the workplace is an example of primary asbestos exposure. In some cases, family members can be exposed to asbestos when an asbestos-containing material has been…
Why Monitoring and Testing Legionella Disease Important in the UK?
The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and other legislations in the UK requires that all property owners and employers should take reasonable care to ensure a safe and healthy work environment at the premises. Not taking effective steps to ensure safety at the premises can result in heavy fines. One threat to human…
3 Stages of Asbestos Air Monitoring
Asbestos air monitoring is essential to detect the concentration of airborne asbestos at a site. The monitoring involves measuring the volume of air drawn through a membrane filter. The filter is subsequently put on a microscope slide to find out the presence of tiny asbestos fibres. In this article, we will briefly explain the three…