ASBESTOS OVERVIEW
Riverside has been providing asbestos consultancy nationwide since 2002. We are UKAS accredited to ISO 17020 and ISO 17025 for testing and inspection.
Our management team has decades of experience in all aspects of asbestos management, for a wide range of industries, we provide independent and professional solutions to the issues that arise from the presence of asbestos in buildings.
We can help you to comply with your duty to manage asbestos under CAR 2012 and ensure you have safe productive working environments.
ASBESTOS SURVEYS
We provide independent UKAS accredited asbestos surveys nationwide. Our surveys are fully compliant with HSG264 Asbestos: The Survey Guide, and our reports are designed to be concise and easy to read, whilst providing more than just basic sample results.
To us competence means providing our surveyors with enough time and support for them to develop the right combination of training, skills, experience and knowledge to carry out their role effectively.
This all means you can be confident that you are in safe hands.
AIR TESTING
We offer a full range of independent UKAS accredited asbestos air testing nationwide. All our services are carried out in accordance with HSG248 ‘The analysts guide for sampling, analysis and clearance procedures.’
Our analysts are given time and support for them to develop the right combination of training, skills, experience and knowledge to carry out their role effectively. As an independent consultancy with no links to contracting activities our analysts work free from commercial bias.
All analysts are BOHS/RSPH trained, complete at least 3 to 6 months of experience shadowing a lead analyst, and complete staged authorisations that are specific to a type of work and a type of asbestos material.
This all means you can be confident of the competence of any person we provide.
ASBESTOS LABORATORY
Riverside operates a testing laboratory accredited by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service to ISO 17025.
We provide independent asbestos identification and analysis; namely the identification of asbestos in bulk materials, i.e. Bulk Analysis and the identification of asbestos in soils and aggregates.
Bulk analysis is compliant with HSG 248 The analysts’ guide for sampling, analysis and clearance procedures, appendix 2.
Asbestos in soils analysis is compliant with HSG 248: The analysts’ guide for sampling, analysis and clearance procedures, appendix 2, and EA: The determination of asbestos in soils and associated material
With laboratories in the South East and Midlands, staffed by trained and dedicated asbestos professionals, you can be assured that all analysis is carried out to the very highest of standards.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
As an independent asbestos consultancy operating nationwide since 2002, we are able to provide our clients with impartial expert advice, oversight and analytical support of your asbestos removal works.
Our senior technical team can assist you with; specification and tender, escorted site reviews, input on evaluations, daily oversight of remedial works, analytical support, clearances, audit & review, document checks, permits and once the work has been satisfactorily completed we can prepare a formal completion pack.
The level of our involvement is completely flexible to meet your budget vs risk balance.
CONTAMINATED LAND
We are an independent UKAS accredited testing laboratory, we have operated nationwide since 2002. We provide impartial expert advice, oversight and analytical support to asbestos contaminated land projects.
Our analysts are BOHS/RSPH trained and are given time and support for them to develop the right combination of training, skills, experience and knowledge to carry out their role effectively.
Let us provide invaluable laboratory services in support of works carried out in the complex area of asbestos contaminated land.
ASBESTOS CONSULTANCY
We are an independent UKAS accredited testing and inspection body, we have provided consultancy nationwide since 2002.
Our consultants have given advice to clients large and small, taking in all industry sectors and property types.
Let us provide you with insight, expert advice and confidence in the complicated area of asbestos risk management.