Posted By Alan Nicholls Paul By dismantling, moving and rebuilding, you are putting the sheeting to another use. My thoughts are that it was intended to prevent materials being sold and re used by someone else, not being aware of the regs. I may well be wrong, this is my view only. I hate the stuff, with good reason. regards Alan

Posted By mark pearson Hi as a site that when i arrived had spare ACM roof panels in the old factory storage area the idea of removal and erection elsewhere is frightening carefull sutible disposal is the only option. The regs are long and cumbersome but the aproch is quite simple (imho) identify exactly what it is with a type 1 or 2 survey, if it can be removed do so if it would cost to much and its intacked encapsulate it! but certinly taking down moving reataching this will create exposure however it is completed. The time takern even with cement sheet will require licenced contractors to undertake the removal task......... the other question that i would ask is why consider reuse as we have i belive beter materials avalible now that will be much quicker to use and provied a beter water tight solution. I feel the HSE would have a feild day with you ;-)

Posted By Ron Hunter I suggest Regulation 29 of CAR 2006 refers. As I interpret that, "re-use" would be prohibited?

Posted By Seamus O Sullivan No, he can not reuse asbestos. On a practical level I suspect much of the sheeting will be damaged when it is dismantled, and could not be reused. In case the farmer asks, I believe it is also illegal to attempt to sell used asbestos sheeting seamus

Posted By Dave Wilson When ANY Asbestos product is 'Removed' it automatically become waste, and as such cannot be re used. it has to go to a Waste landfill site under the Hazardous Waste Regs waste transfer note system, if it is fibrous asbestos waste then the CDG / ADR may also apply!.

Posted By Bob Youel If you strip a building e.g. a garage to a powwer station; any hazardous materials contained in the origional structure should not be put back into it in its new location! That includeds removal of a section of a roof Note that its not just the asbestos regs that you have to adhere to; so all applicable regs should be appraised as to their requirements and its got to be easier to put in new non haz material than it is to re claim the old. This is especially so when it comes to asbestos

Posted By Paul Woodard The point of the original post was to generate discussion on Reg25(1)(b) of CAR. More specifically others opinions on the term 'new use'. As a H&S practitioner I know that the re-use of any ACM's is prohibited, certainly in the past with defnitive regulations. But the above term may be interpretted in more than one way. eg. new use of roofing sheets as fencing material OR new use of roofing sheet on Building A to roofing sheet on Building B. Prehaps the para. should just say the 'the re-use of ACM's is prohibited' because this debate could go on to include the products where asbestos has been Un-intentionally added eg. imported hardcore.

Posted By gerry d The asbestos cement can be removed by an unlicensed organisation provided appropriate control measures are employed. Staff must have suitable training in asbestos awareness. Once detached from its original location it is deemed to be waste and cannnot be re-used. AC is fragile and may break or give off fibres during removal anyway, so should not under any circumstances be considered for re-use. I have experinced AC containing grunerite (amosite) as well so no one should be under that false assumption that it only contains chrysotile.