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New asbestos guide for small firms

Asbestos roofing sheets (Image: Dreamstime/Milkos)

A new, one-page asbestos risk guide aimed at small construction businesses and tradespeople who work with or disturb building fabric has been launched.

The guide, from the Construction Leadership Council’s Health, Safety and Wellbeing workstream, comes amid a focus on retrofitting for net zero and a strong home improvement market.

Asbestos can be found in any building built before 2000 and is responsible for 5,000 deaths a year, the CLC said.

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