Casa’s Air Monitoring: What are the Different Types & Which do you Need?

Asbestos Air Monitoring is an essential part of managing your asbestos safely and compliantly, with each type serving a different purpose:

4-Stage Clearance Monitoring for Certificate of Reoccupation

Casa is accredited by UKAS to conduct clearance monitoring following licensable removal work. This involves four distinct stages:

Stage 1: Preliminary check for site condition and job completeness

Stage 2: A thorough visual inspection inside the enclosure/ work area

Stage 3: Air Monitoring

Stage 4: Final Assessment post-enclosure/ work area dismantling

Only once all four stages have successfully been completed, can the area be classed as safe to re-enter.

Personal Monitoring

Is utilised to ensure that the operative wearing the sampling pump is adequately protected from whatever levels of airborne asbestos fibres are present, ensuring that the control measures in place are suitable and efficient.

Background Monitoring

Background monitoring is used to establish fibre levels prior to any activity which may lead to airborne asbestos fibres. Sample points will cover likely sources of asbestos fibres and likely areas of frequent human occupation.

Reassurance Monitoring

Reassurance Monitoring is carried out to provide reassurance that an area is safe for reoccupation following various scenarios, including;

  1. If non-licensable asbestos has been removed, Reassurance Monitoring is undertaken to ensure no visible or airborne asbestos fibres remain in the former work area.
  2. Following a breach in an asbestos enclosure, and the subsequent clean up, Reassurance Monitoring is required to demonstrate that the area outside the enclosure is free from visible and airborne asbestos fibres.
  3. Following the discovery of damaged asbestos in an area, and subsequent remedial actions, reassurance monitoring is undertaken to demonstrate that these remedial actions have been effective.

Leak Monitoring

Utilised to monitor fibre levels adjacent to enclosures to ensure that the control measures in place are effectively preventing the release of airborne asbestos fibres, and that the integrity of the enclosure is being maintained.

Why choose Casa for Air Monitoring?

Casa are accredited by UKAS to undertake & provide a complete inspection and airborne fibre monitoring service, carrying out all air monitoring services to suit your requirements.

With a fleet of mobile laboratories fully equipped and capable, we can undertake air monitoring that compliments all types of asbestos remedial works. Our reports are produced electronically, and can be printed on site, allowing the removal contractor and the client with a report immeditailey following the completion of any works.

Our dedicated air monitoring analysts hold a minimum of the following ‘British Occupational Hygiene Society’ (BOHS) qualifications:

  • P403 Asbestos Fibre Counting (PCM) and
  • P404 Air Sampling of Asbestos and MMMF and Requirements for a Certificate of Reoccupation Following Clearance of Asbestos.

Get in touch:

Casa has a team of skilled analysts ready to conduct your air tests and analytical work, head by our Consultancy Manager Alistair, who has over 20 years experience in the industry.

You can read more about the Air Monitoring Services Casa provides here, and get in contact here to book your asbestos air test.