Licensing

• Join the Asbestos Licensing Information Group
• Notification of work with asbestos (form FODASB5)
• Policy for the revocation of a licence to work with asbestos
• Asbestos Licence Assessment Guide (ALAG) [PDF 195KB]
  • Annex 1 Overview of initial renewal application process [PDF 23KB]
  • Annex 2 ASB1 licence application form: please contact HSE Infoline (telephone 0845 345 0055)
  • Annex 3 FOD ASB4 (Assessment report form by ALPI) [PDF 594KB]
  • Annex 4 FOD ASB6: Enforcing authority report form [PDF 259KB]
  • Annex 5 Reading material and list of training providers
  • Annex 6 Sample ALPI/ALU letters to applicants [PDF 76KB]
  • Annex 7 Table of changes to asbestos licences [PDF 78KB]
  • Annex 8 Method statement aide memoire [PDF 141KB]
• Specifications produced for asbestos equipment
• HSG247 Asbestos: The Licensed Contractors’ Guide ISBN 9780 7176 2874 2
• Asbestos Liaison Group (ALG)
• Industry standards and best practice: Asbestos Liaison Group Memos
• HSC Policy Statement: Our approach to permissioning regimes [PDF 278KB]

Duty to manage

• Manage buildings? You must manage asbestos [PDF 343KB]
• A short guide to managing asbestos in premises [PDF76KB]
  Also available in A short guide to managing asbestos in premises INDG233 Welsh
• Notice to governors, proprietors and head teachers of schools in England and Wales about the duty to manage the risk from asbestos in buildings [PDF 81KB]
• Duty to manage checklist [PDF 122KB]

Employees

• Guidance for Safety Representatives [PDF 181KB]
• Asbestos Hidden Killer campaign leaflet [PDF 433KB]
• Asbestos Hidden Killer campaign flyer [PDF 358KB]
• Asbestos Essentials task sheets/Equipment and Method sheets

Enforcement

• HSE prosecutions
• HSE notices

General

• Consultation on Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006
• Background facts on asbestos [PDF 62KB]
• Asbestos-related diseases
• Fit testing of respiratory protective equipment used for controlling exposure to asbestos fibres [PDF 300KB]
• MS13 Asbestos: Medical guidance note [PDF 43KB]
• Health effects of inadvertent exposure to asbestos
• Equipment and method - EM series

Research and reports

• Asbestos-related research
• Doll and Peto report - Effects on health of exposure to asbestos [PDF 1.1MB]
• Report of the stakeholders meeting on respiratory protective equipment fit testing, held at the Health and Safety Laboratory, 22 April 2005 [PDF 62KB]
• An investigation into the airborne fibre releases during the removal of textured coating from domestic premises (HSL/2005/32) [PDF 2MB]
• Summary report on additional work carried out on the monitoring of chrysotile containing textured decorative coatings (HSL/2006/19) [PDF 160KB]
• Summary of fibre concentrations in CLASP construction schools containing asbestos [PDF 313KB]
• Investigation of the chrysotile fibres in an asbestos cement sample (HSL/2007/11) [PDF 698KB]
• RR558 Taking risks with asbestos: What influences the behaviour of maintenance workers?
• RR559 Cascading messages through others: The effect on awareness of, and compliance with the Duty to Manage Asbestos Regulations
• HSL/2007/12 Summary of fibre concentrations in CLASP construction schools containing asbestos
• RR624 - Further measurements of fibre concentrations in CLASP construction buildings

Videos

• Asbestos: The hidden killer
• Dave Thompson, a builder
  Asbestosis is still a big killer
• Roy Britton: Former joiner
  A warning about asbestos from one who knows
• Roy Quinn: Building maintenance worker
  Avoid asbestos on construction sites