The Council has qualified in-house resources who undertake bulk sampling of suspected asbestos-containing materials. We provide a local collection service, picking up the samples, delivering to our UKAS ISO 17025 accredited laboratory for analysis and reporting the results back to the Council within 5 working days
We also provide a 2-hour emergency attendance for sampling and collection service with fast-tracked turnarounds within 24 hours where the council requires results urgently following a suspected asbestos incident or where an asbestos-containing material may have been missed on one of their surveys.
This presents a challenge in that receiving a large number of samples and with short timescales for reporting results, this places increased pressure on laboratory workloads and under UKAS guidance each analyst is capped at processing ~60 samples per day.