Asbestos in the work place

Some of the places where you may find asbestos in the work place include:

Inside

1. Asbestos rope seals, gaskets and paper
2. Toilet cistern
3. Textured decorating coatings on walls and ceilings, for example Artex
4. Asbestos insulating board (AIB) panels in fire doors
5. AIB partition walls
6. Asbestos cement water tank
7. Asbestos flash guards in a fuse box
8. Vinyl floor tiles backed with asbestos paper and bitumen adhesive
9. Lagging on boilers and pipes
10. Loose fill insulation
11. AIB ceiling tiles
12. Sprayed coatings on ceilings, walls, beams and columns
13. AIB around boilers

Outside

1. Profiled asbestos cement roof
2. Asbestos cement pipe
3. AIB or asbestos cement soffits and fascias
4. Asbestos cement panels
5. Asbestos cement gutters and downpipes

Asbestos in the home

Asbestos could be present in any building that was built or refurbished before the year 2000.

Inside

1. Asbestos insulating board (AIB) around boiler
2. Toilet cistern
3. Vinyl floor tiles backed with asbestos paper and bitumen adhesive
4. AIB or asbestos cement bath panels
5. AIB ceiling tiles
6. AIB airing cupboard and/or sprayed insulation coating boiler
7. Pipe lagging
8. AIB partition wall
9. Asbestos cement water tank
10. AIB behind fuse box
11. Textured decorative coating, for example Artex
12. Loose fill insulation
13. AIB behind fire
14. AIB or asbestos cement interior window panel

Outside

1. AIB or asbestos cement soffits and fascias
2. Roofing felt
3. Asbestos cement roof tiles/slates
4. Asbestos cement panels
5. Profiled asbestos cement sheeting
6. AIB or asbestos cement exterior window panel
7. Gutters and asbestos cement downpipes