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BFFF_NEC Managing
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Wayne Bagnall Ltd PO Box 41
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www.waynebagnall.co.uk 07712 767744 1
Health & Safety Seminar 7/2/19
Wayne Bagnall MBE
MSc CMIOSH MIDE MCMI
Are you managing your asbestos?
Planned 45 minute programme
1. Asbestos usage & legacy issues
Locations, hazards, risks, health effects & death rates
2. Duty to Manage Asbestos
CAR 2012 Reg 4, L143 ACOP, guidance & the precautions you must take to
avoid, reduce & manage asbestos.
3. Asbestos Survey types (HSG 264)
Deciding and procuring Asbestos Management or Refurbishment & Demolition
Surveys.
4. Duties for normal occupancy, refurb or demolition
Asbestos registers, training, information, communication & CDM 2015
appointments etc.
• Specialist in asbestos & demolition safety
management for advice, solutions & training
–Please visit my Web Site
–Allows access to downloads
–Provides updates
www.waynebagnall.co.uk
– 1984 Director of medium sized Asbestos & Demolition company
– 1995 Authored CITB Demolition & updated Asbestos module (GE 700)
– 1996 Part authored BS6187: 2000 Demolition Code of Practice
– 1997 MBE awarded for “Services to the Building Industry” by HM Queen
– 1999 Set up an independent Asbestos & Demolition Consultancy
– 2000 Masters degree in Construction (H&S) Mgnt, Liverpool JMU
– 2002 Authored new HSE demolition guidance
– 2004 Shell, BP, Sellafield “WAGR & Calder Hall Colling Towers” advisor
– 2005 Assisted HSE launch of Asbestos Regs 2006 & HSE Demolition training
– 2006 BAE Systems asbestos, demolition UK consultant & IDE Council Member
– 2008 Supervised major rail/road bridge demolitions for Network Rail
– 2009 UKATA Registered Member (UK Asbestos Trainers Association)
– 2010 Contributor in the revision of BS 6187 Demolition code of practice
– 2012 Appointed Demolition Consultant on one of the largest projects in the UK
– 2013 Provided RWEN Power with demolition training
– 2015 Delivered papers to National IDE conferences in Leeds & London
– 2016 Expert witness appointments for major corporations; SSE, RWE etc
– 2017 Prepared and delivered training for HSE Inspectors
– 2018 Training HSENI, working with HSE new Welfare Regs & CITB registered ATO
1. Asbestos usage & legacy issues
Locations, hazards, risks, health effects & death rates
Asbestos into Manchester Docks c1957
Majority of Asbestos imported, but some small mines in Cornwall!
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Crocidolite (blue asbestos)Chrysotile
(white asbestos)
Amalgamated Asbestos Mine2011 Canada stopped mining.
15.12.16 Canada banned the
use, import & export of asbestos
in 2018 - Canadian EPA 1999
Amosite or Grunerite
(brown asbestos)
Why Asbestos is (was) used
Properties include:
1. Thermal (fire, hot & cold systems)
2. Electrical
3. Acoustic
4. Chemical resistance
5. Strength
6. Cheap natural resource easily mined
Miracle mineral but deadly fibre (airborne)
Non-licensed; needs competent persons to work on this
NNLW = deliberate breakage by remote demolition
Asbestos Cement (10 - 15% typical white asbestos)
Asbestos Cement
Water Pipes / Ducts
Controlled water pipe
cutting trials for major
water company
Air ducting in hospital theatres;
what secures the polystyrene? Cement spacers to ensure sufficient
coverage to the steel reinforcing
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RC + fibre reinforced concrete spacer/tube
NB older spacers are likely asbestos (AC)
Modern non-asbestos fibre spacers
Fibre Cement (e.g. glass fibre + OPC)
NON-ACM substitute; available circa 1987 onwards
CAUTION: manufactured alongside Asbestos Cement!
Fibre Cement = New Technology (NT) products
100% white Asbestos woven rope gasket
Asbestos rope gasket between
glass & glazing bars
Asbestos friction lining (30 - 70% white asbestos)
Composite
(Bakelite)
Asbestos
preformed
toilet
cistern/seat
Typical 5% brown
asbestos
Vinyl floor tiles (VFT) typically ~7% white
Asbestos also likely in the adhesive
[NB: If floor screed is to be removed/demolished and
AIB or Sprayed coating was used in the building
ensure core sampling of the screed]
VFT imperial sizes often indicate asbestos;
conversely metric can indicate non-asbestos
BUT analysis needed for survey report(s)
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100%
Asbestos
textile
flash/arc
pads
Can you
spot other
potential
ACMs?
Elec ACMs; AIB, Paxolin, rope, sheathing, Bakelite etc.
Asbestos insulation “lagging” (up to 90%)
Licensed work; wet applied by hand, check for
snots on walls, brackets, ceilings & old removal
Pipe insulation from old pipes that penetrated
floors (behind multi-foam) missed by the surveyorBlue (Crocidolite) asbestos acoustic coating in a Grade 1
listed library ceiling Very High Risk fibrous material
Any sprayed coating installed >1985 (banned) should
be non-asbestos; confirmed by UKAS analyst test(s)
Disturbed blue asbestos (sprayed fire protection)
to a steel framed 1960’s building.
During a recent refurbishment of a renal facility!
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Asbestos Insulating Board (AIB)
(circa 15% - 40% typically brown asbestos)
Often used for heat/fire protection & acoustic attenuation
“Durasteel Ltd” typical fire
door (AIB) to switch rooms
/ sub-stationsManufactured with circa 25%
(white & brown) asbestos core
until 1978
>1978 believed to be asbestos
free, but always check
particularly if old or no records
Chrysotile fibre bundle
(image magnified 600x)
exposed surface of a
weathered cement sheet.
Amosite
fibre bundle
(image magnified 2000x) Individual Amosite
fibres ~ 1μm
(micron) diameter
Compare the above to this Human
hair (image magnified 1200x)
Thickness 75 – 150μm diameter
Normal chest X-Ray;
Below >asbestos exposure
Pleural
Plaques
Mesothelioma
UK Deaths from asbestos related diseases
TODAY
• ~5,500 deaths / year¹
• >No. killed on our
roads/year!
• Disease can take from
10 to 60yrs
• Smoking = risk x 50+¹Latest estimated No.s from HSE
By 2025 – 2035
• ~10,000 deaths / year
• Predicted by
Professor Julian Peto
• Inst of Cancer
Research & HSE
Projection of UK annual Mesothelioma deaths
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50
100
150
200
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1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
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Imports - chrysotile
Amosite
Crocidolite
Population exposure index
Observed
Predicted
90% Prediction
Interval
Source: Tan et al 2009. Projection of mesothelioma mortality in Britain using Bayesian methods. British Journal of Cancer 103:430-436
First
exposure
today in 2019
~2049
~30 years
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2. Duty to Manage Asbestos
CAR 2012 Reg 4, L143 ACOP, guidance & the precautions
you must take to avoid, reduce & manage asbestos.
Regulations Regulations Regulations
App. Code
of Practice
L143 (2nd edition)
Asbestos ACOP
App. Code
of Practice
Guidance Guidance
Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012(changes e.g. NNLW etc. into force 6.4.12)
1. Commencement
2. Interpretation
3. Applications
4. Duty to manage asbestos (5.2004)
5. Identification of presence
6. Assessment of exposure
7. Plans of work
8. Licensing of work
9. Notification (ASB5 & NNLW)
10. Info, instruct & train
11. Prevent / reduce exposure
12. Control measures
13. Maintenance control measures
14. Provision & cleaning PPE/RPE
15. Accidents, incidents & emergencies
16. Prevent / reduce spread
17. Cleanliness premises & plant
18. Designated areas
19. Air monitoring
20. Standards air testing/clearance
21. Standards for analysis
22. Health records & medicals
23. Washing & changing facilities
24. Storage, distribution & labelling
25. Interpretation of prohibition
26. Prohibition of exposure to asbestos
27. Labelling of products
28. Additional provisions (exemptions)
29. Exemption certificates
30. Exemption to MOD
31. Extension outside Great Britain
32. Existing licences & exemptions
33. Revocations & savings
34. Defence
35. Review
• Schedule 1 Notification
• Schedule 2 Labelling etc
• Schedule 3 Amendments
The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012NB: These apply to all ACMs - see L143 ACOP CAR 2012. 10 steps; Reg 4. Duty to Manage (21.5.04)
1. Dutyholder definition & duty
2. Cooperation with Dutyholder
3. Suitable & sufficient assessment
4. Assess condition of asbestos
5. Plans & age of building
6. Assessment review
7. Assessment records
8. Risks, plans & measures
9. Management plan
10. Review, update & implement
• ‘Dutyholders’ have a ‘duty to manage’ asbestos in
all non-domestic premises¹
• Dutyholder means:
• Person(s) responsible for maintain or repair
or control access or egress in non-domestic premises
• Can include the Principal Contractor (site security etc)
• Where more than 1 Dutyholder = duty is shared
Note 1: Communal areas in domestic premises are included
as these areas are classed as non-domestic
CAR 2012. Reg 4. Duty to Manage (21.5.04)
• Determine if asbestos is present then:
• Consider the risk & identify ACMs s on plan
• Measures for managing risks
• Plan for managing ACMs shall include:
• Monitoring condition, maintain or safely removed
• Communicating location & condition of ACMs to:
• Any, or every person liable to disturb it
• Including the Emergency Services (emergencies only)
• Ask the duty holder for asbestos information
(duty to manage since 5.2004) & if in doubt STOP!
CAR 2012. Reg 4. Duty to Manage (21.5.04)
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For any pre 2000 building / Plant / Equipment:1. Ask (asbestos survey info)
– Is there an Asbestos Register & compliant Asbestos Survey?
– Is there asbestos in the area, or equip etc where you are working?
– Is the ACM location labelled, what type, form & condition is it?
2. Think (plan the work)
– Is it safe to enter the area, what are the risks (left undisturbed?)
– Has everyone received at least Asbestos Awareness Training
– What is needed; is it high risk (licensed) or low risk (non licensed)
3. Do (manage the works)
– Non-licensed (low risk) use HSG 213/210, it may be NNLW
– Licensed (high risk) requires 14 day notice from a LARC
– Ensure effective control measures & independently monitor
– After asbestos removal there is remaining ACM risk (vigilance)
Post 2000 make reasonable enquiries on asbestos
In Summary
• The Control of Asbestos Regulations were introduced in 1987
• Currently the Control of Asbestos 2012 (Reg 10. Training)
• Training to the ACOP and is it to a recognised standard e.g. UKATA?
• Asbestos was banned in the UK on 24 Nov 1999
• Asbestos analysis for ACMs have to be UKAS ISO 17025 (11.02)
• The Duty to Manage asbestos was introduced 21 May 2004
3. Asbestos Survey types (HSG 264)
Deciding and procuring Asbestos Management or
Refurbishment & Demolition Surveys.
1. HSG 264 2nd edition 2012 (replaced MDHS 100)
2. Two surveys options:• Management survey (normal occupancy conditions)
or
• Refurb & Demo survey (abnormal, refurbish or demolition)
3. Competency / SKTE (≡CDM 2015)
4. No unreasonable or generic caveatse.g. No access?
(assume ACMs present & arrange access later)
5. Consultation for NEW HSG 248 (due 2019)
Analysts guide; ACM in soil & 4 stage clearance
HSG 264 - Asbestos: The survey guide
Clients duty to provide a
Refurb/Demo asbestos
survey at tender stage for
any refurbishment or
demolition, see HSG 264
CDM 2015; reg 4 & app 2
As part of the
pre-construction info
Mgnt or old type 3 survey
is unacceptable for
refurbish or demolition
e.g. CAR 2012 Reg 4. DTM 3. Plant room guano
2. Basements dark & debris
4. Live electrics
1. Wasps or Bees
Acceptable R&D Survey Caveats? what is your opinion & actions
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HSG 264: Material assessment algorithm
• 4 main parameters = potential fibre release:
1. Product
2. Damage or deterioration
3. Surface treatment
4. Asbestos type
• Each parameter is scored, range 0 to 3
– Max score = 12 (min 2)
• No change from MDHS 100; which is withdrawn
• See appendix 4 in HSG 264 (p67)
HSG 227 Priority Assessment
• 4 parameters occupancy & vulnerability priority
5. Occupant activity
6. Likelihood of disturbance
7. Human exposure potential
8. Maintenance activity
• Score 0 to 3 per parameter
– Max score per parameter = 3
– Average sub parameters (e.g. 1 + 2 + 3 = 6 = 2)
– Max score = 12 (HSG 227) 3
HSG 227 Guide to Reg 4; “Duty to Manage Asbestos
in non-domestic premises”
Material Fibre Score + Priority Assessment
= Overall risk score (24)
• HSG 264 = fibre (hazard) score max 12
+• HSG 227 = priority (risk) assessment max 12
HSG 264 + 227 = Overall risk factor max 24
Used as part of the arrangements to understand,
prioritise & manage the asbestos. Damaged Asbestos Insulating Board
(encapsulated) ceiling; HSG 264 Fibre Score?
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Practical elements
Training aid
developed for my 2
day Asbestos
Management
Training
Enables a better
understanding of
fibre scores & priority
assessments
Asbestos, (12)
Survey Checks
Positive
Indicators (HSG 264)
Negative Indicators(HSG 264?)
What type of survey (are you doing) is it, when was it done & is it independent / adequate?
Accreditations
Competence / exp
Q.A. Audits +reference
No. Surveyor(s)
RA/MS & air-tests
Access & vacated?
PPE/RPE + sampling
Report content
Caveats
Photographs
Plans
Format
Practical elements
Training aid developed for my
2 day Asbestos Management Training
‘Surveyors & Survey Health Checks’
Helps before appointing asbestos surveyors
or checking the adequacy of existing
asbestos surveys
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HSG 264 Asbestos: The survey guide
Progressive knowledge of asbestos containing materials in building(s)
Activity –v- % knowledge 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Existing/visual inspection
Mgnt survey & reviews
Refurb/demolition survey
Complete demolition
• What level of confidence do you have in the survey or surveyors:
• Assess the competence of the organisation (UKAS?)
• Check surveyors qualifications & exp (P402 + 6mths exp)
• Provide sufficient time & resource
• Carry out quality checks & refs
• Any unreasonable caveats?
• Planned work must NOT disturb ACMs, unless controlled
?
Demolition of a 1950’s commercial building
Example of a “poor” asbestos R&D survey
By a non- UKAS accredited (ISO 17020) company
1950’s steel framed building Asbestos missed, R&D Survey
undertaken with building occupied!
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Missed contamination in floor screed,
blue asbestos from fire protection for
the steel frame during construction
Asbestos cement shuttering throughout all floors, above non-
asbestos fibreboard ceilingsAsbestos contamination during demolition soft-strip
resulted in AIB being disturbed = HSE intervention
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4. Duties for normal occupancy, refurb or demolition
Asbestos registers, training, information, communication &
CDM 2015 appointments etc.
CAR 2012; Reg 4. Duty to Manage (21.5.04)
1. Asbestos Management should consider:– Registers (data bases) of information with automatic reminders (re-inspections)
– Asbestos policies, surveys, registers, training, work with asbestos etc
– Are you able to integrate into your existing systems e.g. legionella etc
– Administration for easy (controlled) access & update with any changes
– Users be able to have easy navigation & extraction of information
2. Proprietary Asbestos Management Systems, inter alia:– https://www.start-software.com/about-us/
– https://www.acmsuk.com/
– http://www.askams.co.uk/2012/01/05/asbestos-management-software/
– https://www.assurityconsulting.co.uk/services/asbestos
– http://www.teams-software.co.uk/WebPortal.aspx
– https://www.micad.co.uk/solution/ipr-3-5/asbestos-software/
Managing asbestos, survey types & building age risks
CAR 2012; Reg 4
Duty to manage asbestos in non-domestic premises
B. (Mgnt Survey)
One off event &,
or breakdown
maintenance
(arrangements?)
D. (R&D Survey)
Planned Refurb /
Demolition
(CDM 2015
adequate PCI)
C. (Mgnt Survey)
Catastrophic
event; fire, flood,
collapse,
explosion etc
(consequences?)
A. (Mgnt Survey)
Normal
occupancy &
PPM
(activity type)
>19991970 - 1985 1985 - 1999<1950 – 60’s
Considerations for assessing asbestos risks include;
Building age, construction, high rise & high occupancy etc
Asbestos Register compiled from (several) Asbestos Surveys; must record
all known ACMs, removal work, re-inspections & be available!
Unique ID, location, material + priority score, inspection frequency, actions
Extract HSG 210; EM1 what to do if you uncover ACMs
HSE 4th edition, guidance issued 9.2017
Wayne Bagnall MBE
MSc CMIOSH MIDE MCMI
If you wish to know more, need help or training,
please email me: [email protected]
or tel: 07712 767744 - thank you