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Let’s all
FINDING MORE ASBESTOS get home safely,
every day

If you find or suspect you have found asbestos 16 Inside:
containing materials during demolition activities 1. Sprayed coatings
Water Tanks
2.
unrecorded within the Asbestos Refurbishment & 1 15 3. Loose fill insulation
Demolition Survey, then: 12 4. Lagging on
5 12 boilers/pipes
13 5. AIB ceiling tiles
6.
Toilet parts
1 • Stop work immediately. 6 11 7. AIB partition walls or
• Move everyone working within the 7 fire doors
area of the concern away. 8 8. Rope seals
• Plant should be moved away and 14 7 10 9. Vinyl floor tiles
10. Textiles e.g. fire
shut down 3 4 blankets
• The area will be isolated by closing 11. Electrical fuse boxes
all doors and windows etc. 2

A.I.B 9
2 • Notify site management instantly Outside:
12. Roofs
• They will immediately contact 4 13. Panels
asbestos management A Full report with photographs to be produced 14. Gutters/downpipes
15. Eaves/arches under
by the asbestos supervisor and using the
• Access to the area is then limited appropriate form, sent to the asbestos balconies.
to designated asbestos personnel contract’s manager and safety manager as 16. Flues
only an Incident Record.

3 An appointed Asbestos Supervisor wearing the appropriate RPE
and PPE will inspect the area and if asbestos has been
uncovered, will take a number of samples for asbestos analysis. If
the samples are confirmed as asbestos, then the material will be
removed and fibre monitoring implemented, in accordance
with the relevant procedures detailed throughout the Asbestos
Policy under Standard Operating procedures.
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