Dear All

As many of you know SoBRA are developing a risk assessment model to feed into the work of the Joint Industry Working Group (JIWG) Asbestos in Soil but they need more of your help and input. Details are provided in the paragraphs below with appropriate links.  Please feel free to circulate to your colleagues that may not receive this email so that we can collectively gather data.  If we can all work together and pool/share resources, we will be able to make quicker progress.

Deadline for information is as soon as possible.

Thank you for your help

Kind regards

Nicola

DUST SAMPLING PROTOCOL

SoBRA would like the whole of the land development industry (contractors. consultants and site owners) to get involved in an industry wide initiative to provide dust sampling data from site works. Many practitioners already undertake routine dust sampling; all we are asking is for you to provide the results of these samples to SoBRA anonymously.  The results will be collated into a larger open access database to help the development of a risk assessment model which will feed into the Joint Industry Working Group Asbestos in Soil.  To ensure that the dust samples are taken in a uniform way, SoBRA has produced a sampling protocol to assist which can be downloaded here:

http://www.claire.co.uk/index.php?option=com_phocadownload&view=file&id=438&Itemid=230

 The dust sampling protocol is supported by an equivalent protocol for asbestos fibre in air monitoring and the use of both protocols in parallel is encouraged where possible so that the open access UK-specific empirical database that SoBRA is developing can be as comprehensive as possible. The sampling protocol can be downloaded here:

http://www.claire.co.uk/index.php?option=com_phocadownload&view=file&id=439&Itemid=230

Completed templates should be sent to Simon Cole ([log in to unmask]).

PRIORITY ACTIVITIES

SoBRA is also requesting industry input into the selection of site activities and exposure scenarios that should be considered in the risk assessment framework.  The industry survey from 2012 identified the following broad categories:  current land-use, site investigation, remediation, construction, and post-contruction land-use.  If there are specific activities that the industry would like to be covered under the site investigation, remediation, or construction categories please contact Simon Cole ([log in to unmask])

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Nicola Harries CGeol, CSci - Project Director
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