Lead Paint Tests UK
Casa Environmental Services offers a full lead paint sampling and testing service to ensure the safety of your assets and occupants against the hidden dangers of lead paint. Control of Lead Regulations (CLAW 2002) places a duty to prevent employee exposure to lead.
If you suspect there may be lead paint present within your property or site, then sampling and testing are required to confirm its presence. In the UK, most lead paint was banned from sale to the general public in 1992, apart from for specialist uses.
Why Test Paint for Lead?
Lead Paint testing is essential to ensure the safety of occupants and compliance to regulations.
The Health and Safety Executive has dedicated regulations, guidance, and an approved code of practice for documentation for the Control of Lead Work. Excessive exposure to lead is hazardous to health and can cause lead poisoning. Lead Testing is a legal requirement for all commercial projects wherever paint work is likely to be disturbed, regardless of the age or type of building or structure involved.
Lead Paint only becomes an exposure risk when it is disturbed or damaged. It is only by inhaling of ingesting lead paint chips, lead dust or fumes that exposure occurs.
How to Identify Lead Paint
Lead paint can be found across a property including skirting boards, door frames, stairs, bannisters, window frames and sills, wooden flooring, radiators and pipes, railings and steelwork.
Most old paintwork is likely to have a lead content – the older the paintwork, the higher the risk of lead being present, regardless of the surface, whether it be timber, metal, tile, or masonry. Our expert team of surveyors will sample paint from around the site to measure the risk of lead.
Lead Paint Testing with Casa
Our dedicated team is highly skilled in lead testing to guarantee the precision and reliability of results. All samples are analysed as UKAS accredited Laboratories and handled with stringent internal Casa policies for our client centric approach to ensure you’re provided with expert guidance and support to navigate the complexities of lead paint.
We will produce a full specification and scope for the surveying and testing procedure for your property. From this, we will attend and survey your premises for lead paints and collect samples of suspect materials for laboratory analysis in a specialist, UKAS Accredited Laboratory.
We will provide you with a comprehensive report, detailing the results from analysis, which will be utilised to advise the next steps in the process to ensure that risks to exposure are mitigated.
Speak to a Paint Testing Expert from Casa
Our wood sampling and testing process generally involves 5 steps.
Our expert team is experienced in conducting lead paint testing across all sectors, ensuring your safety and compliance as your highest priority.
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Our highly competitive rates combined with excellent delivery and customer service make us one of the most trusted survey and testing providers in the UK. With offices in Bristol, Southampton, Plymouth, Cornwall and Stafford, we offer our services nationwide.