Are you planning to renovate your older home any time soon? If your refurbishment will involve tearing down and rebuilding large sections of the building such as the roof, flooring, walls or ceilings, you should have an asbestos audit performed by specialists before getting started. This type of service is aimed at producing a register that will be used to safely remove any asbestos or asbestos-containing material (ACM) from your building. Safe removal of asbestos or ACM is critical to minimising asbestos exposure to renovation workers.
Want to know what type of information is contained in an asbestos register? Keep reading on below to find out.
Location of the Asbestos
During asbestos auditing, specialists walk around and look for sections of the building that they suspect may contain asbestos. Once they find material that may contain asbestos, they'll take samples for testing at an off-site lab.
If the samples are found to contain significant percentages of asbestos, a detailed description of the physical location of the material will be provided in the register. Photos taken during the inspection can also serve as a record of the affected sections of the building.
This way, asbestos removal contractors will know where work needs to be undertaken. This helps to not only save time but also ensure the safety of asbestos removal workers as well as the crew that will handle your home renovation.
An asbestos audit specialist will assume that asbestos is present in any areas of your house that they can't access.
Amount of Asbestos Exposure
Unless sampling and lab testing of suspected asbestos-containing material is conducted, asbestos audit experts can't tell if the material contains asbestos. Taking samples to the lab is a surefire way to ascertain the presence or absence of asbestos in the sample material but also find out the amount of asbestos in the material.
This way, asbestos removal contractors which methods they can use to safely and effectively remove asbestos from your home. Although asbestos exposure levels may vary, there's no safe exposure level.
Although you're not legally required to seek out an asbestos audit expert for your older home, it is wise to hire one. As already mentioned, there's no safe asbestos exposure level, so it is best to leave any job that involves working with asbestos to the experts. This includes the asbestos removal job that will be required if your home is found to contain asbestos.
Share12 February 2019
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