Hospitals are a 24 hour operational environment and therefore coordinating the delivery of asbestos surveys and re-inspections presents many challenges, from access and delivery issues, to safety and infection control.
The Trust uses the MICAD database as their asbestos register which requires asbestos re-inspection data to be recorded and updated using a mobile application on an iPad. The MICAD system requires data to be entered using exact naming references all locations which without due care and attention can lead to inconsistent and unusable data for compliance and can lead to non-compliance with asbestos regulations.