These new regulations came into force on 05 April 2012. In practice the changes arising from the new Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 are fairly limited. They mean that some types of non-licensed work with asbestos now have additional requirements, i.e. notification of work, medical surveillance and record keeping. This can be considered as notifiable, non-licensed work. All other requirements remain unchanged.
The Changes:
- From 6 April 2012, some non-licensed asbestos work needs to be notified to the relevant enforcing authority.
- From the same date, brief written records must be kept of non-licensed asbestos work that has to be notified e.g. copy of the notification with a list of workers on the job, plus the level of likely exposure of those workers to asbestos. This does not require air monitoring on every job, if an estimate of degree of exposure can be made based on experience of similar past tasks or published guidance.
- By April 2015, all workers (and self employed) doing notifiable non-licensed work with asbestos must be under health surveillance by a Doctor. Workers who are already under health surveillance for licensed work need not have another medical examination for non-licensed work.
- Note that medicals for notifiable non-licensed work are not acceptable for those doing licensed work.
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