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Free asbestos management plan template
An asbestos management plan sets out where asbestos is, or is presumed to be, in non-domestic premises or the common parts of blocks of flats, and how the risk from it is managed. This one is an editable PDF for the dutyholder under regulation 4 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012. Eight pages, free to use and reuse.
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What is in the asbestos management plan template
8 pagesThe premises and who is responsible
The buildings covered and their age, the dutyholder and the basis of the duty, the appointed person and a deputy, and others who must co-operate.
Surveys and their limits
The management and refurbishment and demolition surveys held, the areas the surveyor could not reach, and any evidence that asbestos is absent.
The register and the priority for action
Where the register is kept, and each material ranked by its material score from the survey and your own priority score.
Actions
Manage in place, protect, seal, repair or remove, each with the work category, an owner, a due date and the evidence it was done.
Information and checks before work
Who is told and how, including contractors and the emergency services, and the checks made before any work on the fabric starts.
Re-inspection and review
The re-inspection schedule and record, what prompts a review, the review record and the approval of the plan.
What regulation 4 requires
Checked against the sourceWho the dutyholder is
Every person with an obligation of any extent, by contract or tenancy, for the maintenance or repair of non-domestic premises or the means of access to them. Where there is no contract or tenancy, every person who has, to any extent, control of the premises.
Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012, regulation 4(1)An assessment, recorded
The dutyholder must ensure a suitable and sufficient assessment of whether asbestos is or is liable to be present. It considers the condition of any asbestos, takes account of building plans or other relevant information and the age of the premises, and includes an inspection of the parts reasonably accessible. Its conclusions must be recorded.
Regulation 4(3) to (7)A written plan
Where asbestos is or is liable to be present, the risk must be determined and a written plan prepared. The plan identifies those parts of the premises and the measures for managing the risk.
Regulation 4(8)What the plan must cover
Monitoring the condition of the asbestos, and keeping it properly maintained or, where necessary, safely removed. Information on its location and condition goes to anyone liable to disturb it, and is made available to the emergency services.
Regulation 4(9)Reviewed, implemented, recorded
The plan must be reviewed and revised at regular intervals, and without delay if there is reason to suspect it is no longer valid or the premises change significantly. Its measures must be implemented, and the measures taken recorded. HSE's code of practice says review it at least every 12 months.
Regulation 4(10), and HSE L143, para 143Northern Ireland
The 2012 Regulations were made for Great Britain. Northern Ireland has its own Control of Asbestos Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012, whose regulation 4 sets the same duty to manage in the same terms.
SI 2012/632, explanatory note, and SR 2012/179, regulations 1 and 4How to use it
Start from the survey
Use the management survey report to fill the register and the risk page. Areas the surveyor could not reach are presumed to contain asbestos until they have been checked.
Make the priority your own
The surveyor scores the material. Only you know how each area is used and how often maintenance reaches it, so the priority assessment is yours to make or to validate.
Keep it where work is planned
Contractors need the information before they price or start the work, not on arrival. Review the plan at least every 12 months, and sooner when something changes.
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What is an asbestos management plan?
A written plan that regulation 4 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 requires where asbestos is, or is liable to be, present in non-domestic premises, which include the common parts of blocks of flats. It identifies where the asbestos is and sets out how the risk is managed: monitoring its condition, maintaining or removing it, and telling anyone who could disturb it.
Who needs an asbestos management plan?
The dutyholder for non-domestic premises: whoever has a contract or tenancy obligation to maintain or repair them or, where there is none, whoever controls them. That may be the owner, a landlord, a tenant, or several of them sharing the duty. Where an owner uses a managing agent, HSE says the agent acts for the owner but the legal duty cannot be passed to the agent.
Is an asbestos management plan a legal requirement?
Yes, where the assessment shows asbestos is or is liable to be present. Regulation 4(8) requires a written plan and regulation 4(9) sets what it must cover. HSE's code of practice says premises completed before 2000 should be presumed to contain asbestos unless there is strong evidence that they do not.
Does the duty to manage asbestos apply to domestic properties?
Not to private houses or the inside of individual flats. It does apply to the common parts of multi-occupancy domestic premises, such as foyers, corridors, lifts, stairs, roof spaces, gardens, yards, outhouses and garages. Rooms shared by more than one household inside a private house, such as a shared kitchen, are not common parts. Landlords of domestic premises still have the general duties in section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.
How often should an asbestos management plan be reviewed?
The law requires a review at regular intervals, and without delay if there is reason to suspect the plan is no longer valid or the premises have changed significantly. HSE's code of practice sets a minimum of every 12 months. HSE also suggests a review after work that affects asbestos, accidental disturbance or a change in the people responsible.
How often should asbestos be re-inspected?
The law sets no fixed interval. HSE's code of practice says the frequency depends on where the asbestos is and the activity around it. HSE's guide to managing asbestos gives examples: board panels in a constantly used corridor may need inspecting monthly. In most cases the interval would not be expected to be more than 12 months.
What asbestos survey do I need?
In most cases a management survey, which locates asbestos that could be disturbed during normal occupation and foreseeable maintenance, and assesses its condition. Before refurbishment or demolition, the area affected needs a refurbishment and demolition survey. HSE strongly recommends using a surveying organisation accredited by UKAS.
Is this asbestos management plan template free?
Yes. It is free to download, use and reuse, including on paid work and for clients, with no sign-up and no email address. Type into it in any PDF reader, or print it and fill it in by hand.
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