Health and Safety Information Sheet - Controlling Asbestos at your Workplace
The Health and Safety at Work, etc Act 1974
The Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations 1987 (as amended)
Health and Safety Information Sheet - Controlling Asbestos at your Workplace: "
What are my duties relating to asbestos?
If you are an employer, you already have a legal duty to prevent the exposure of your employees to asbestos under the Health & Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. In the future, a new explicit duty to manage asbestos will be added to the Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations. This will require you to manage the risk from asbestos by:
- identifying asbestos in the premises, its amount and what condition it is in;
- presuming materials contain asbestos, unless you have strong evidence that they do not;
- making and keeping up to date a record of the location and condition of any asbestos containing materials (ACMs), or presumed ACM’s in your premises;
- assessing the risk from the material;
- preparing a plan that sets out in detail how you are going to manage the risk from this material;
- taking steps needed to put your plan into action;
- reviewing and monitoring your plan and the arrangements made to put it in place, and providing information on the location and condition of the material to anyone who is liable to work on it or could inadvertently disturb it.
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