asbestos control Articles
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Fawley Power Station– Case Study
Project Highlights Asbestos air monitoring associated with asbestos removal and remediation was undertaken on the Fawley Power Station site on a daily basis for a duration of four years on behalf of CAPE Plc. Demolition asbestos survey have also been undertaken of all buildings due to demolished as a consequence of the closure of the plant and the proposed decommissioning and demolition. The ...
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Bournemouth Airport (2) – Case Study
Project Highlights Asbestos Awareness Lecturing Type 1,2 and 3 asbestos surveys Creation of asbestos removal specification Generating independent quotations Independently generating best ‘fit’ for client Asbestos Removal Project management Asbestos air testing Client liason Project Description To liaise with the client and assess the current asbestos management plan. To ...
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Selwood Housing – Case Study
Project Highlights After a successful tendering process, Envirochem was awarded the contract to provide surveying and analytical services to Selwood Housing. Envirochem are responsible for organising a large number of management surveys of various Housing stock in the relevant timescales. Additional analytical services include bulk analysis of bulk materials for asbestos content, air testing and ...
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Bournemouth Airport – Case Study
Project Highlights Envirochem are responsible for organising all consultant and analytical works relating to the removal of all asbestos containing materials from a busy working airport. Our work and advice ensured that the airport maintained its high standards and the airports customers and staff are able to operate in a safe and controlled environment. Project Description Working as ...
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How to Deal with Asbestos Exposure in Your Workplace: Advice for Managers
Industrial mangers are faced with hundreds of responsibilities each day. Ensuring worker safety should be at the top of their priority list – especially when it comes to asbestos. Do you work in management at a construction site or industrial occupation? Here’s what you can do to promote asbestos safety: Conduct daily or periodic monitoring. Unless a manager can demonstrate that ...
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Development of Plans and Specifications and Bidding Assistance
Asbestos Survey – Building Surveys and Testing ACC helps developing owners and supervisors meet their regulating specifications to test suppose components for asbestos fiber prior to remodelling or development activities. To ensure quality, our certified professionals perform all area work according to OSHA, EPA and AHERA methods. Following the asbestos fiber survey, ACC provides a ...
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Asbestos is still with us: repeat call for a universal ban
All forms of asbestos are proven human carcinogens. All forms of asbestos cause malignant mesothelioma and lung, laryngeal and ovarian cancers, and may cause gastrointestinal and other cancers. No exposure to asbestos is without risk. Nonetheless, a large number of countries still use, import and export asbestos and asbestos-containing products. And in many countries that have banned other forms ...
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London 2012: Legacy or Liability?
After spending hundreds of millions of tax payers’ money on a high profile ‘clean-up’, it has become clear that the 2012 Olympic Park actually remains classified as a contaminated brownfield site. Documents show that the whole area is to have as little as 2 feet (60cm) of “clean” material placed on top of a warning marker layer of orange plastic fabric sheeting, of a type called Terram 1000, ...
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Asbestos in soil methods
I wanted to start off this brief technical summary with an item that appeared in the January 2009 Indoor Environment Connections publication… “Asbestos in Soil; The State of the Issue, Tom Laubenthal, Sean Fitzgerald, Alan Seagrave, P.G. In this session, Laubenthal and Seagrave will describe the nature of asbestos contamination in soil. This issue has perplexed the industry for years. What ...
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Putting infection control into practice in the workplace
Healthcare workers are, like patients, subject to illness from a variety of airborne pathogens common to hospital settings. This risk increases during construction and renovation, as these endeavors release dust as well as disease-inducing microbes into the surrounding environment. Since more than one in five workplace illnesses in private industry occur in a hospital setting , hospitals should ...
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Asbestos in the Home and School
This section discusses the presence of asbestos in houses, rental apartments, schools and other public buildings, and has a list of useful EPA contacts. Does Your House Contain Asbestos? It is very common for homes built or remodeled before the 1970's to have asbestos-containing materials in them. During the twentieth century, about 30 million tons of asbestos fiber were used in the ...
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