Whoever controls non-domestic premises in Kent carries a Regulation 4 duty to manage asbestos. Most stock pre-dates 2000, making an absent or outdated register a live legal exposure.
Asbestos management surveys identify and condition-score accessible materials, sample where identity matters, and produce a register with locations, photos, risk scores and a management plan your contractors can act on.
Non-intrusive throughout, safe for occupants
Annual reinspection, keeps the register live
From scoping around how the building actually works to delivering a register your contractors can open and act on. Five working days, fixed fee.
We map the survey to how the building is actually used, covering occupied areas, plant rooms, risers and communal parts, and agree access arrangements that cause minimal disruption.
Every accessible area is inspected and photographed. All presumed and sampled materials are logged with their location, extent and condition scores recorded at the time.
Samples are analysed at an independent laboratory. Certificates are appended to the register so it withstands scrutiny from insurers, the HSE and contractors alike.
The completed report lands within five working days. It contains the register, priority assessments, a management plan and the reinspection schedule that keeps you continuously compliant rather than periodically catching up.
Every survey is conducted by a BOHS P402-qualified surveyor, meeting the UK's highest industry standards.
We submit all samples to independent UKAS-accredited laboratories. You receive the official certificates for your records.
We carry £10m public and employer liability insurance as standard on every survey across Surrey.
We issue reports meeting Regulation 4 compliance. These serve directly as your legal asbestos register.
FAQS
If the building pre-dates 2000 and you control any part of it, yes. Regulation 4 contains no exemption based on business size or premises scale. A modest unit warrants a modest asbestos survey. The obligation is about knowing what is there and managing it, not commissioning elaborate documentation.
The individual flats are domestic and sit outside the duty. The communal areas, including entrance hallways, stairwells, meter cupboards, roof voids and any boiler rooms, are squarely within it. These are precisely the spaces where era-typical materials sit and where a management survey is most commonly absent.
Every identified or presumed material recorded with its location, photographs, extent, condition and risk score. Laboratory certificates for all sampled items. A management plan setting out what needs monitoring, what should be labelled and what, if anything, requires removal. Reinspection dates are also stated, because a register should be treated as a working document rather than a filed one.
Annual reinspection is the accepted industry standard for keeping the management plan current. Earlier review is required if materials are damaged, if works are planned nearby or if the building’s use changes. Our reinspection programme manages the calendar so the obligation does not depend on anyone remembering.
Completely reasonable and increasingly common across the industry. You are legally required to pass on asbestos information to anyone who may disturb the fabric of your building. If you are facing this situation now, give us the contractor’s start date. Fast-turnaround management surveys for exactly this reason are a regular part of our work.
The register assigns them a risk score and the management plan sets out the appropriate response. In many cases this is monitoring, labelling and protection rather than immediate removal. Where removal is the right answer, a fixed written price follows within 48 hours and the register is updated on completion to reflect what was done.
Most single commercial units and communal-area surveys are completed within a few hours and can be scheduled around trading or tenancy hours so the building is barely disrupted. Larger instructions or multi-building portfolios receive a stated programme before the first visit takes place.
On a per-building basis against a consistent scope, assembled into a single programme figure. A managing agent can see exactly what each asset costs individually, and the entire portfolio lands on one reporting standard with one reinspection calendar.
We carry out every asbestos survey across Kent, covering offices and shops in town centres, converted residential blocks in Maidstone, Canterbury and Medway, commercial units from Dartford to Folkestone, and any premises carrying the same duty on the county’s borders.
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Send us your postcode and a description of the material you’ve found. A surveyor will be with you the same week, and your fixed written price follows within 48 hours.
