working with asbestos?
 
  • Do you come into contact with asbestos?
  • Do you know whether there is asbestos in your premises? It can be present as a building or insulation material.
  • Does your work involve maintenance and repair of buildings? You might disturb asbestos while doing routine work.
  • Do you know what the rules are about removing asbestos?
  • Would you know how to find someone licensed to do this work?
  • Do you know whether there is asbestos in any of the materials you work with?

Asbestos is the largest single cause of fatal disease and ill health caused by work in Great Britain. Although almost all the deaths and ill health related to asbestos today are due to exposures that happened several decades ago, if you work with asbestos, or come into contact with it as a result of repair and maintenance work, you need to be particularly careful.

Asbestos can be found in most buildings built between 1950 and 1980, as insulation and lagging. It is still used in some brake pads and clutch linings and can be met in vehicle servicing and repair.

There is a range of further leaflets giving more information. Single copies are available from the City Council or for larger numbers contact the HSE.

  • Asbestos dust: the hidden killer
  • Asbestos and you
  • The control of asbestos at work
  • Managing asbestos in workplace buildings
  • Working with asbestos in buildings
  • A health and safety handbook for business is available from the council

The following documents are available for download:

Contacts

For advice on the management and removal of asbestos within commercial premises please contact:

Cambridge City Council - (Local Authority Enforced Commercial Premises) 01223 457900

Health & Safety Executive - (HSE Enforced Premises) 0845 345 0055

If you have any general comments or enquiries please email them to Environmental Services or contact us at Mandela House, 4 Regent Street, Cambridge CB2 1BY. Tel: 01223 457900

Last updated: Monday, November 24, 2008