Asbestos Surveys to MDHS 100

Cocoon Environmental Safety operates at all company levels, from supporting large multi-site organisations to offering sensible practical solutions to smaller organisations. Our consultants and surveyors adopt a professional yet friendly approach ensuring the customer receives quality information and advice.

Our service offering is based on providing specialised technical service to ogranisations looking to make their environments safe and to comply with their legal duties as defined in CAWR. Regulation 4 of the Control of Asbestos at work Regulations 2002 which creates a new legal duty to manage asbestos in non-domestic premises

Surveyors

Our surveyors hold as a minimum the British Institute of Occupational Hygienists (BIOH) P402 Building Surveys & Bulk Sampling for Asbestos Certification. As such they are qualified to conduct Type 1, Type 2 and Type 3 Surveys to MDHS 100 Standards and can give practical advice regarding Risk Assessment and Risk Management Strategies

Asbestos Related Services

Surveys

• Site Surveys Type 1: (Presumptive) This survey does not involve sample taking but is based on the presumption that “asbestos like” materials contain asbestos and require to be managed as such
  
  
• Site Survey Type 2: Similar to type 1, however, representative samples are taken for analysis of suspect ACM's to verify the presence of asbestos. This delivers a more definitive result for the customer in that only materials confirmed as containing asbestos require to be managed as such
  
  
• Site Survey Type 3: This survey is an extension of type 2 usually performed prior to major refurbishment or demolition. This survey is more obtrusive as ACM's require to be identified and quantified to allow licensed contractors to tender for removal

Risk Assessment & Ongoing Management of Asbestos

• HSE's A Comprehensive Guide to Managing Asbestos in Premises (HSG227) defines the duty holder's responsibility's following a survey. Our Surveyors / Consultants can provide practical assistance and advice relating to ongoing management of asbestos.
  
  
• Monitoring Programmes: We can provide a service to monitor the condition of asbestos identified, monitoring its condition and the likelihood of fibre release. This removes the burden from the customer.