Where asbestos is found in school buildings
- Ceiling tiles and boards
- Pipe lagging in boiler and plant rooms
- Floor tiles and adhesives
- Roofs, soffits and cement panels
- Partitions, fire doors and service ducts
- Textured coatings on walls and ceilings
Your legal duties
Whoever is responsible for maintaining a school has a duty to manage asbestos. In practice this means knowing where it is, assessing its condition, keeping an up-to-date register and plan, and making sure staff and contractors are told before they work in affected areas.
Managing it or removing it
If materials are in good condition and unlikely to be disturbed, they can usually be managed in place. If they are damaged, in a high-traffic area or about to be disturbed by building work, removal is the safer choice. We advise on both routes.
How we do the work
Review your records
We look at your existing asbestos register, surveys and management plan, and note gaps.
Survey and assess
A trained surveyor inspects the buildings, samples suspect materials and rates the condition of each.
Plan the response
We agree whether materials will be managed in place or removed, and when, to keep disruption low.
Remove where required
Work is done by licensed or non-licensed teams as the material requires, usually out of hours or in school holidays.
Certify and update
After removal we inspect and provide clearance documentation, and your register is updated.
Asbestos waste is double-bagged, sealed and taken by a registered carrier to an authorised disposal site. You receive a waste consignment note as your legal record.