Asbestos Surveys in Merseyside

Fibre Safe are one of Merseyside’s leading Asbestos management Companies, we specialise in providing highly comprehensive asbestos surveys to aid our clients in locating, identifying and managing asbestos.

When you choose Fibre Safe to carry out your buildings asbestos survey you can rest assured that you are in the hands of industry experts who can successfully assess the particular risks posed by the presence of asbestos containing materials within the buildings structure or plant machinery.

Our friendly and professional Asbestos Surveyors have over 80 years of combined industry experience in the effective control and management of asbestos containing materials.

During our times of trading we have worked alongside many high level companies, education facilities, local authorities and the general public to make the premises in which they work and rest a safer place to be by removing or making safe all of the asbestos within the building, it is fair to say that we have experience in working with almost every type of asbestos containing material.

The ethos here at Fibre Safe is to provide our clients with a professional, accurate and impartial asbestos survey that clearly outlines our findings and suggestions for the appropriate remedial action to be taken.

Who Needs an Asbestos Survey

• Builders/Development companies.
• Building Owners and Managers.
• Private Homeowners.

Are you in the process of undertaking a renovation of a building that was built before the year 2000? If the answer is yes then the likelihood of asbestos being present within the structure or equipment is very high, prior to commencing any building works by law you should instruct a specialist asbestos company such as Fibre Safe to carry out a full and in-depth asbestos survey to all areas both hidden and visible.

Fibre Safe provide our asbestos surveying services to companies and private individuals throughout Merseyside and the surrounding areas.

All of the asbestos surveyors employed by Fibre Safe are industry experts, we are very proud of our reputation within the asbestos management industry and our abilities’ in the correct identifying and management of asbestos containing materials or (ACM's).

We provide the following asbestos related services throughout Merseyside.

• Asbestos Management Surveys.
• Asbestos Demolition and Refurbishment Surveys.
• Asbestos Awareness Training.

Asbestos Factoids, Strange but True

• Asbestos has been used in a wide array of products over the years, some well-known uses and some unusual ones.
• Asbestos was present in an old brand of toothpaste it was used to help abrasion on the teeth.
• In the middle ages an emperor had a tablecloth woven out of asbestos it was thrown onto a furnace to burn off the food and grease leaving the cloth intact.
• Frequently used as Insulation for rocket engines on space shuttles.
• Asbestos has been used in Cigarette Filters.
• Old hood style hair dryers contained a layer of asbestos inside the hood to stop customers getting burnt as did ironing boards.
• Thermo plastic components such as telephones, toilet cisterns and fuses.
• Chlorine for bleach, cleansers and disinfectants is produced using asbestos products.
Makeup and talcum powder.
• Wall paper & paper lining.
• Heart & lung surgeons used asbestos thread to close incisions.
• Chrysotile Asbestos also known as white asbestos was commonly used as artificial snow during the late 1920’s and 30’s it was used in the famous scene performed by Bing Crosby during the filming of White Christmas and also sprayed directly onto Dorothy the cowardly lion and the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz.
• This shows the limited knowledge of the dangers of asbestos during these times, fortunately for the cast they went on to live long and fulfilling lives.
• The United Kingdom has one of the highest rates of mesothelioma (asbestos related cancer) in the world.
• In 2013, a total number of 2,538 United Kingdom residents died from mesothelioma, and from 2011 to 2013 the UK's mesothelioma rates rose to 68.2% per million for men and 12.7% per million for women.

Identifying Asbestos

Identifying the presence of asbestos within a building or equipment should be seen as the first step in the process towards managing your duty of care with regards to (ACM’s) don’t panic as the thorough removal of all ACM's is not always the recommended remedial action firstly one must assess the overall condition of the asbestos to check its suitability for less intrusive actions such as encapsulation by utilising a coating that is specifically formulated to effectively seal in loose asbestos fibres.

Complete removal is only ever undertaken/recommended when the building in question has been scheduled for demolition or where the ACM’s are deemed to be in an advanced state of decay, for building refurbishments it is considered best practice where practicable for the asbestos containing material to be made safe and left in place and their condition monitored and documented at regular intervals to ensure that further degradation has not occurred and to ensure that the ACM;s present are not disturbed by any future works.

Types of Asbestos

• Chrysotile Asbestos: also known as white asbestos. The use of chrysotile asbestos was banned in the UK in 1999.
• Amosite Asbestos: also known as brown asbestos. Amosite asbestos was commonly used in construction between the 1920's and the late 60's, the use of amosite asbestos was banned in the UK in 1986.
• Crocidolite Asbestos: also known as blue asbestos, crocidolite asbestos has been widely used in the UK since the 1880's and was finally banned by the Asbestos (Prohibitions) Regulations in 1985.

To enquire about any of the services provided by Fibre Safe Asbestos Surveys call us Today on 0151 515 2342.