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BIFM Midlands Facilities Management & Environmental Compliance

Enhance your understanding of facilities management and environmental compliance with this comprehensive guide. Learn about asbestos, legionella, fire safety, and more. Discover how your approach to compliance can impact your colleagues, building occupants, contractors, visitors, and the public. Make sure you comply with the law, protect building users, and cover your backside. Get insights from industry experts and gain practical knowledge to effectively manage facilities and ensure environmental compliance.

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BIFM Midlands Facilities Management & Environmental Compliance

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  1. BIFM MidlandsFacilities Management & Environmental Compliance Eton Environmental Group & CBRE

  2. Purpose of BIFM • Purpose of BIFM • Enhancing our presence • Twitter #BIFM @BIFMMidlands Add @Eton Add @GWSworkplace • Alan Bentley – BIFM Committee Member > Richard Ward – BIFM Committee Member

  3. Thank you • Our Speakers • Adam Benson and Toby Ford – Eton Environmental Group • Joanne Milnes – CBRE’s Quality, Health, Safety and Environment manager

  4. Facilities Management & Environmental Compliance Toby Ford BSc (Hons), CCP (Asbestos), Tech IOSH, MIEnvSc

  5. Content • Introduction • Compliance & FM • Asbestos • Legionella • Fire • Conclusions

  6. What sort of FM are you…

  7. Your approach to compliance will influence: • Direct colleagues • Building occupants • Contractors • Visitors • Public

  8. What does environmental compliance mean to you? • Complying with the law • Protecting building users • Covering your backside…

  9. Asbestos Management

  10. Serpentine Chrysotile (White) Common Amosite Crocidolite Fibrous Actinolite Fibrous Anthophyllite Fibrous Tremolite (Brown) (Blue) Amphiboles Rare Types of Asbestos

  11. Asbestos fibres

  12. Asbestos fibres

  13. Asbestos Recognition • The common names white, brown and blue refer to asbestos in its raw state • Once mixed with other materials colours become less significant • Asbestos containing products known as ACMs (Asbestos Containing Materials)

  14. Uses of Asbestos

  15. Loose fill insulation HIGH RISK OF FIBRE RELEASE

  16. Sprayed coatings HIGH RISK OF FIBRE RELEASE

  17. Hard-set pipe insulation HIGH RISK OF FIBRE RELEASE

  18. Asbestos insulating board HIGH RISK OF FIBRE RELEASE IF DAMAGED

  19. Asbestos insulating board HIGH RISK OF FIBRE RELEASE IF DAMAGED

  20. Asbestos cement LOW RISK OF FIBRE RELEASE

  21. Textured coatings LOW RISK OF FIBRE RELEASE

  22. Textiles HIGH RISK OF FIBRE RELEASE

  23. Textiles HIGH RISK OF FIBRE RELEASE

  24. Textiles HIGH RISK OF FIBRE RELEASE

  25. Cistern LOW RISK OF FIBRE RELEASE

  26. Health Effects of Asbestos

  27. Health Effects of Asbestos • All types of asbestos are considered to be carcinogenic which means they have the potential to cause cancer and tumours in the body • Latency periods between exposure and illness can be up to 15 to 60 years • HSE state that approximately 4,500 die each year currently in the UK

  28. Maintenance Trades

  29. Smoking and asbestos

  30. Legal obligations • CDM Regulations 2015 • Asbestos information part of the design • Includes work in the domestic sector • Management of H&S Regulations 1999 • Requirement to share information • Suitably control risk • Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 • Obligation to pass on information • Prevent the spread of asbestos

  31. Conduct a suitable and sufficient assessment for asbestos • Gather all information • Unless building is post 2000 or supplied information is absolutely effective most likely need to carry out an asbestos survey • Will need to be conducted competently • Suitable to the project/ site

  32. Survey types • Three categories of asbestos survey: • Management • Refurbishment • Demolition

  33. Management Survey • Locate, as far as reasonably practicable, any ACMs and assess the risk • Includes material assessments for suspected ACMs • May include samples of materials unless specified by prior agreement with the client • Includes management / control actions for ACMs • Most commonly utilised survey for asbestos management plans

  34. Management Survey • Client / duty holder should arrange for all doors to be unlocked • Areas to be included (or excluded) should be fully discussed with the client • Arrangement for access to areas such as lift shafts, ceiling voids & service risers should be carried out before the survey begins

  35. Refurbishment Asbestos Survey • Used to locate all ACMs, as far as reasonably practicable, within the building and its structure • Survey must be specific to a proposed scope of works • May involve destructive inspection techniques • Estimate quantity of asbestos rather than condition • Aids tendering of asbestos removal prior to refurbishment

  36. Refurbishment Asbestos Survey

  37. Demolition Asbestos Survey • Used to locate all ACMs, as far as reasonably practicable, within the building and its structure • Survey must access all areas of the building • May involve destructive inspection techniques • Estimate quantity of asbestos rather than condition • Aids tendering of asbestos removal prior to demolition

  38. Demolition Asbestos Survey

  39. Bulk samples • Only trained persons to take samples of asbestos • Must be analysed by UKAS accredited laboratory • Issue certificate of analysis • Laboratory analysis is the only way to confirm that a material contains asbestos

  40. Asbestos Management Plans • A survey report is not necessarily your asbestos register • How would you keep it updated? • What if other survey reports exist? • What if more ACMs are discovered? • Master register in electronic format is of far more use • Excel spreadsheet easy to use • Updateable • Can gather together multiple sources of data • It becomes a living document – survey reports become a point of reference

  41. Parts of a Management Plan • Policy statement • Identify duty holder and responsible persons • Undertaking assessments for ACMs • Management systems – e.g. labelling/ permit to work • Roles – employees, contractors, consultants • Training requirements • Emergency procedures • Record keeping

  42. Current thinking… • Don’t panic about low level contamination • If you can’t see asbestos debris then probably not a contamination issue • Try to avoid “swab” testing for SEM analysis – can lead to false positives, will probably just pick up background levels of asbestos • Improved survey planning/ client understanding • Increased standards for 4SC

  43. Legionella Management

  44. Legionella pneumophila • Legionella is the common name for a group of bacteria that can be found in most water sources. • There are over 45 different named types. • Lives in water between 6°C - 60°C, but will develop into higher (and more dangerous) concentrations between 20°C - 45°C. • If people get infected with Legionella they can develop Legionnaires disease or Pontiac fever.

  45. High risk groups: • Children and people aged over 45 • Smokers and heavy drinkers • People suffering from chronic respiratory or kidney disease • Anyone with a reduced immune system • Kills around 12% of people infected. • Symptoms • High Fever • Chills • Headache • Muscle pain • Breathing difficulties • Diarrhoea • Vomiting • Confusion or delirium • Flu-like symptoms

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