The Health and Safety Commission (HSC) has this month published a consultative document seeking comments on proposed amendments to the asbestos regulations and the Approved Code of Practice (ACoP).
The proposed changes will implement revisions to the EU Asbestos Worker Protection Directive 83/477/EEC in Great Britain.
The draft regulations include:
* a single, tighter control limit for work with all types of asbestos;
* specific training requirements for those working with asbestos; and
* a clear hierarchy of controls that should be used to reduce exposure, based on the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (Amendment) Regulations 2004 (COSHH).
The HSC is taking this opportunity to simplify and rationalise the legislative regime by combining the three sets of current asbestos regulations - on controls, licensing and prohibitions - into one.
Textured coatings
In practice, most work that currently needs to be done under licence will remain licensable. Based on new research, HSC proposes that work on textured decorative coatings containing asbestos, will not need to be done by a licensed contractor.
Risks from these materials are much lower than previously thought: estimated to be 1,000 times less than that for other licensable materials, and lower than that from work with asbestos cement which doesn’t require a licence.
Consultation document
Further details of the changes can be found in the Consultation Document and the draft Regulations.
For more information, read the HSC press release
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