Presumed Asbestos Product Overview

1. Presumed Asbestos Product Overview Understanding the Functionality and Benefits of Presumed Asbestos™

2. Background • Around 3000 people a year in Great Britain die from diseases caused by past exposure to asbestos • People who work with asbestos are at risk, particularly those who are involved in the refurbishment, repair or maintenance of buildings like plumbers and carpenters. • Asbestos was used extensively as a building material in GB from the 1950s through to the mid 1980s. • It is estimated that over half a million non-domestic premises currently have some form of asbestos in them. There is extensive repair and removal work, which will continue for the foreseeable future.

3. The new regulation The broad requirements on employers are to: • Take reasonable steps to determine the location of materials likely to contain asbestos; • Presume materials to contain asbestos, unless there are good reasons not to do so; • Make and maintain a written record of the location of the asbestos and presumed asbestos materials; • Monitor the condition of asbestos and presumed asbestos materials; • Assess the risk of exposure from the asbestos and presumed asbestos materials and document the actions necessary to manage the risk; and • Take steps to see that the actions above are carried out.

4. Legal Consequences • For a failure to comply with an improvement or prohibition notice, or court remedy order: a fine of up to £20,000, a 6-month prison sentence or both • For breaches of sections 2-6 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974: a fine of up to £20,000 • For other breaches of the HSW Act not specified above, or of relevant statutory provisions under the Act: a fine of up to £5000

5. Blue Datum • Blue Datum™ is a technology based solutions provider in the field of Asbestos Management. • Our expertise extends over twenty years in developing software technologies to provide businesses with a complete asbestos management software solution.

6. Presumed Asbestos • Designed in mind for the legislative requirements and the practical issues of managing asbestos in the workplace. • Saves time and money by keeping an up-to-date record of asbestos containing materials (ACMs) • Provides the ability to manage asbestos on an organisational site through an easily-navigable interface • Targeted at both expert and non-experts. Designed to reflect the needs and understanding of a non-expert end user • Provides printable reports and documents relating to asbestos presence on a site • Enables one to monitor and manage actions recommended subsequently from an asbestos survey

7. Product Features • Customizable site structure to cater for all types of properties • Grouped Priority Assessment via Walkthrough Analysis. • Caters for Type 1, 2 and 3 Asbestos Inspections.

8. Product Features [Continued] • Inbuilt Emergency Procedures to deal with asbestos hazards. • Schedule Management for both upcoming inspections and recommended actions • Inspection and Maintenance History for tracking previous works carried out.

9. Product Features [Continued] • Automated Permit to Work Reports for Maintenance Jobs. • Embedding contractor supplied documents into maintenance records • Blank forms to be used when manually inspecting a location • Extensive knowledge-base

10. Product Features [Continued] • Template based and fully customizable Objectives, Caveat, Limitations, Notes and Technique • Maintenance Management including Maintenance tracking and logging.

11. Product Features [Continued] • Wizard driven Type 1 surveys for quick and efficient compliance • State of the art Revisit Survey™ technology for handling routine Asbestos Inspections • Security setting for both user and administrator levels • In-built surveying rules for minimized user error

12. Product Benefits • Typically Presumed Asbestos will save about 70% of consultancy time in preparing a detailed Asbestos Management report. • A further approximately 80% is saved in ongoing management of the project, including revisits and managing contractors documentation • Presumed Asbestos report engine will automatically prepare a whole range of very detailed reports in minutes rather than days.

13. Product Benefits[Continued] • Presumed Asbestos helps reduce the project costs substantially by:- • Reduced Project Consultancy days. • Reduced Project Management time. • Instant access to data • Single key data entry eliminating data duplication • Reduced Error rates • Reduced Auditing fees • Optimized revisit surveys

14. Some of our clients • West London Health Estates • Fiat Motor Company (UK) • Coca-Cola (UK) • Aston Science Park • Sutton & Surrey Plc

15. Case Study – Aston Science Park To have produced equivalent standard of reports manually without the software would have taken 2-3 months, whereas the surveys and reports for the science park were completed within 3 weeks resulting in over half the costs being cut when compared with competitors solutions. Presumed AsbestosTM has since been installed on the on the duty holder’s system, so all the data can be effortlessly managed in the future in-house using the unique RevisitsTM feature. The duty holder was delighted with the resulting cost and time savings that the software provided.

16. System Requirements • Intel Pentium II 350 or higher • Microsoft Windows 98, NT 4.0, ME, 2000, 2003, XP • Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 (IE5.01 is included on installation CD) • 32 MB Ram (64MB recommended) • 25 - 50 MB hard disk space • CD-ROM drive • SVGA (800x600) screen resolution • 256 colours colour depth • Mouse or other pointing device • Digital Camera (recommended)