Helpful guidance published on the HSE website identifies where asbestos might be found in an industrial property:
Inside:
- Sprayed Coatings on ceiling, walls, beams and columns
- Asbestos cement water tank
- Loose fill insulation
- Lagging fill insulation
- Lagging on boilers and pipe
- AIB ceiling tiles
- Toilet seat & cistern
- AIB partition walls
- Asbestos rope seals, gaskets and paper
- Vinyl floor tiles
- AIB around boilers
- Textiles eg. fire blankets
- Textured decorative coatings on wall and ceilings eg. artex
Outside:
- Asbestos cement roof
- Asbestos cement panels
- Asbestos cement gutters and downpipe
- Soffits – AIB or asbestos cement
- Asbestos cement flue