Safe Asbestos Management, from Survey to Clearance
The effective management of asbestos is an essential part of planning and delivering demolition works. Daltons takes a coordinated approach, ensuring asbestos risks are identified, assessed and appropriately managed before and throughout the demolition process.
Safe, compliant asbestos management within demolition projects
The effective management of asbestos is an essential part of planning and delivering demolition works. Daltons takes a coordinated approach, ensuring asbestos risks are identified, assessed and appropriately managed before and throughout the demolition process.
Our approach clearly separates asbestos surveying, licensed asbestos removal and non-licensed asbestos work, with each activity undertaken by suitably competent organisations and personnel.
Specialist asbestos surveying
Asbestos surveys are undertaken by competent specialist asbestos surveying contractors, providing the information required to plan the works and determine the appropriate method of removal or management.
For demolition projects, the available asbestos information is reviewed at the pre-construction stage and, where necessary, additional refurbishment or demolition surveying is arranged before intrusive works proceed.
Survey findings are incorporated into the demolition planning process so that identified asbestos-containing materials can be addressed in the correct sequence and coordinated with the wider works.
Licensed asbestos removal
Where asbestos work is classified as licensable under the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012, Daltons appoints suitably qualified HSE-licensed asbestos removal contractors to undertake the work.
Daltons coordinates these specialist works with the demolition programme, including access, sequencing, isolations, temporary works, plant movements and subsequent demolition activities.
Where required, appropriate analytical and clearance procedures are undertaken by suitably accredited independent specialists before affected areas are released for subsequent works.
Non-licensed asbestos work
Where asbestos work is correctly classified as non-licensed and falls within our competence, Daltons can undertake the works directly using appropriately trained and competent personnel.
Each activity is subject to a suitable risk assessment, plan of work and appropriate control measures, with the classification of the material and proposed work considered before commencement.
Where non-licensed work falls within the requirements for Notifiable Non-Licensed Work (NNLW), the applicable additional requirements are followed.
Integrated with the demolition programme
Managing asbestos separately from the demolition programme can create unnecessary interfaces, delays and uncertainty. Our approach is to coordinate asbestos activities as an integral part of the overall demolition strategy.
This includes:
- Review of asbestos survey information before works commence.
- Coordination of additional surveys where existing information is insufficient.
- Identification and sequencing of asbestos removal ahead of demolition.
- Appointment and coordination of HSE-licensed contractors for licensable work.
- In-house delivery of appropriate non-licensed asbestos works by trained and competent personnel.
- Coordination of analytical, monitoring and clearance requirements where applicable.
- Segregation, handling and disposal of asbestos-containing waste through appropriate authorised routes.
- Maintenance of relevant project records and documentation.
By integrating asbestos management with the wider demolition methodology, Daltons provides clients with a clear, controlled and compliant route from initial survey through asbestos removal and into structural demolition and final site clearance.
Industries We Work With
Residential
Industrial
Education
Local Authorities
Commercial
Construction
Our Services
Demolition
Safe, planned demolition from survey to handover.
Asset Recovery
Appraisal and controlled recovery of reusable plant, equipment and higher-value materials.
Asbestos Management
Coordinated asbestos information, surveying and remediation planning before intrusive works.
Downtakings & Soft Strip
Controlled soft strip, internal downtakings and coordinated decommissioning in live and constrained environments.
Industrial Dismantling & Decommissioning
Controlled dismantling of industrial structures, plant and equipment in complex environments.
Waste Management & Recycling
Site-led segregation, material recovery, processing and authorised waste routes.
READY TO DISCUSS A PROJECT?
To review your asbestos information alongside a demolition scope, call 0131 339 5355 or enquiries@daltondemo.co.uk