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WALES AND WESTERN OFFICE
LOCATION
Address: Conway House
St Mellon’s Business Park
Fortran Road
St Mellon’s
Cardiff
CF3 0EY
Contact: 02920 369 030
BACKGROUND
Redhills, Wales and Western Office originally opened in Chepstow in 2000. As the resources within the office expanded and the office begun to secure more work there was a need to increase the office size and we moved offices into office accommodation at Conway House.
On 31st October 2006 we gained UKAS accreditation for this office. In 2010 we moved into a larger unit at the same site and a laboratory for the analysis of bulk samples accredited to ISO 17025 was opened with a full time laboratory analyst facilitating sample analysis across Midlands, Wales and the West. The office has a firm client base managing both local and national contracts and offers both planned and reactive works across Wales and the South West of England.
Asbestos Training Master Class – Who is it for?
Asbestos Training Master Classes are for anyone with a need to understand the workings of the asbestos management industry in sufficient detail to be able to meet day to day management requirements and become involved in coordinating remedial works. An ideal course for delegates unable to complete a week-long course.
A practical approach to a comprehensive understanding of all aspects of asbestos from basic identification to removal.
Duration: 1 day
Delegate numbers: Maximum 15
To find out more about our Asbestos Training Master Classes, download our course information here:
Asbestos Non Licensed Training – Who is it for?
Persons who require Asbestos Non-Licensed Training will include those whose tasks will knowingly disturb asbestos containing materials during the course of their work, such as building maintenance workers and their supervisors.
In accordance with the Control of Asbestos Regulations (CAR) 2006 Regulation 10, for operatives carrying out non licensable asbestos work.
Duration: 1 day
Delegate numbers: up to 6
For more information about our Asbestos Non-Licensed Training, download the course information here:
Asbestos Management Training – Who is it for?
Asbestos Management Training is for all those who manage premises and wish to understand what is expected of them under CAR 2006, this includes: facilities, property and health and safety managers or anyone who has supervisory responsibilities for those working on the fabric of buildings.
To inform those with a Duty to Manage of their responsibilities under Regulation 4 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations (CAR) 2006.
Duration: Half day
Delegate numbers: Maximum 15
To find out more about our Asbestos Management Training, download the course information here:
Asbestos Awareness Training – Who is it for?
Asbestos Awareness Training is for anyone who is working on the fabric of buildings, which would include anything from putting up a picture hook to large scale refurbishment. Sixteen target groups of workers that require Asbestos Awareness training have been identified at both operative and supervisor levels.
General maintenance staff, electricians, plumbers, gas fitters, painters and decorators, joiners, plasterers, demolition workers, construction workers, roofers, heating and ventilation engineers, telecommunication engineers, burglar and fire alarm installers, computer installers, architects, building surveyors, shop fitters and other such professionals are the trades at most risk.
This course meets the training requirements under regulation 10 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations (CAR) 2006.
Duration: half day
Delegate numbers: up to 15
For more information about our Asbestos Awareness Training courses, download our information sheet here:
SECTOR – Broadcast/Corporate
SERVICE - Asbestos Management
Background Within the live broadcast environment there are numerous pressures on any planned and reactive works. There are not only health and safety considerations but also time, cost and live broadcast environments to consider.
All regulations are applicable and the task is to ensure no person is exposed to asbestos and reduce any risk as far as reasonably practicable whilst also maintaining facilitating broadcast critical areas.
The portfolio we work within has over 200 properties throughout the UK, varying in size, age and construction
Project Details
Our role in this environment is simply to ensure compliance with regulations and ensure that no person is put at risk from exposure to asbestos.
SECTOR – Banking
SERVICE – Asbestos Consultancy Services
Background
As with all retail groups, high street banks have many and varied compliance requirements in relation to asbestos. The Bank have appointed Redhills as their approved asbestos consultant for the past 3 years. This contract encompasses all aspects of asbestos management including Management and Refurbishment / Demolition surveys, annual re-inspections and air monitoring.
The portfolio covered within the remit of the contract includes not only all the high street branches but all commercial office premises and warehousing locations nationwide. The contract also extends to working directly for their sub-contractors for the ongoing branch redevelopment programme.
Project Details
The Bank contract works in two distinct ways. Firstly, operating directly for the Bank to assist their day to day compliance with Regulation 4 “The Duty to Manage” of the Control of Asbestos Regulations (CAR 2006). This element of the contract involves carrying out planned and programmed Management and Re-inspection surveys across large numbers of branches. These surveys are conducted discreetly during opening hours whilst not disturbing branch operations.
SECTOR – University
SERVICE – Asbestos Management
Background:
Regulation 4 ‘the duty to manage’ is directed at those who manage non-domestic premises: the people with responsibility for protecting others who work in such premises or use them in other ways, from the risk to ill health that exposure to asbestos can cause.
We were employed by the University to undertake asbestos management surveys as part of a stringent tendering process , in order to comply with regulation 4 and their own asbestos management policy. Whilst the University had previously had surveys carried out they felt they weren’t comprehensive and hence put the work out to tender.
Project Details:
The contract period to survey the University portfolio was for 10 calendar weeks to survey some thirty premises.
As part of the tendering process we were also required to provide information in a specific format in order for the data to be uploaded into their Archibus system.
Download the full Asbestos Management case study for the Education Sector here:
Kieran Moon, Commercial Director at Redhills (the leading asbestos and environmental consultancy division of Silverdell PLC) has joined the ATAC (Asbestos Testing and Consulting) Management Committee.
The Trade Association ATAC is the specialist division of ARCA (Asbestos Removal Contractors Association) and provides a platform for the specialist services offered by the asbestos testing and consultancy companies in the UK.
All ATAC member companies are vetted prior to membership, to ensure they have the appropriate UKAS accreditation for the services offered to industry.
The management committee meets on a regular basis to discuss the implications, interpretation, and implementation of current and proposed legislation relating to asbestos management in the UK.
Kieran has been with Redhills since 1988 and joined the Board in 2010. He assumed responsibility for the commercial operations of Redhills in January 2010 and since then, he has effectively led his team to secure sales that underpin the success and stability of the company.
Marks & Spencer is being fined £1m for failing to protect customers, staff and workers from potential exposure to asbestos during refurbishment works, so it is important for anyone with control over non-domestic premises to familiarise themselves with the changes that are to be made to UK asbestos regulations.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) ended a consultation on changes to the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006 (CAR 2006) on 4 November, relating to proposed new regulations to replace the CAR 2006. The changes are being made to bring UK asbestos regulations in line with the EC directive on asbestos.
The revised regulations will mean that more employers carrying out some types of lower risk, short duration maintenance and repair work with asbestos will have to comply with requirements to notify of asbestos work, keep records and carry out medical examinations for workers.
In the future, there will be three categories of work with asbestos as opposed to two:
Asbestos is responsible for more than 4000 deaths every year with approximately 20 tradesman dying each week due to asbestos exposure.
Asbestos Training
The word mesothelioma is no longer ‘unknown’, lately the four asbestos related diseases are being spoken of everywhere as to increase awareness of this hidden killer, but why is the asbestos topic so frightening?
Asbestos exposure can cause four main diseases; mesothelioma the most fatal, is a cancer of the lining of the lungs and is almost exclusively caused by exposure to asbestos. There is also the chance of developing asbestos related lung cancer which could be equally fatal.
Asbestosis which is a scarring of the lungs is not always fatal but can be a very debilitating disease, greatly affecting quality of life. The fourth asbestos related disease is diffuse plural thickening, a thickening of the membrane surrounding the lungs which can cause breathing problems.
The lawyer of a Teignmouth carpenter who died after allegedly being exposed to asbestos has appealed for his former colleagues to come forward in the fight to win compensation for his estate.
Richard Hooper died in October 2009 aged 63 from mesothelioma, a cancer caused by exposure to asbestos.
He had been diagnosed with the disease two months earlier.
Lawyer Lesley Mynett, who is acting on behalf of his estate, is hoping anyone who worked with Mr Hooper in the 1960s and early 1970s will be able to provide information as she continues his battle for compensation.
Miss Mynett is an industrial disease specialist with Fentons Solicitors LLP.
She said: “Richard worked throughout Devon and Cornwall as a carpenter, a vocation he trained in as an apprentice from leaving school.
“In 1963, aged 17, Richard began working for J H Hooper & Sons (no relation), a job he held until 1971.”
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