Presumed Asbestos

Product Overview

Understanding the Functionality

and Benefits of Presumed Asbestos™

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.

The new regulationThe 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Product Features [Continued] Template based and

fully customizable Objectives, Caveat, Limitations, Notes and Technique

Maintenance Management including Maintenance tracking and logging.

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

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.

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

Some of our clients West London Health Estates

Fiat Motor Company (UK)

Coca-Cola (UK)

Aston Science Park

Sutton & Surrey Plc

Case Study – Aston Science ParkTo 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.

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)