Posted By Nigel Beavan I am currently looking into what emergency procedures exist in local authorities for dealing with accidental asbestos contamination of employees. I have been delivering asbestos awareness training to front line employees who go into premises to deal with minor work where asbestos may be present. The local policy states that if asbestos is identified in the task to be carried out work must cease and it must be referred to the authority’s specialist asbestos team. What I have identified is the lack of emergency procedures to deal with the accidental contamination of these front line staff. Having trawled through various organisations emergency procedures I find that they frequently refer to how the location must be dealt with to contain the contamination but only rarely refer to dealing with contaminated staff who are not part of the emergency team. Even where I have found references they tend to be very vague. I am interested in whether anyone has dealt with this issue, what measures they have put in place, what equipment has been issued and what guidance has been given?

Posted By Nigel Beavan Thanks for that, but the item you suggest illustrates an asbestos controlled area and decontamination for suitably clothed workers. I am looking more specifically at where general workers wearing standard issue clothing find themselves contaminated. I am suggesting that they carry disposable overalls etc that they can put on after they have to take off their own clothes. This is the area that I have found lacks enough consideration presently.