Our residential and commercial services include:

• Asbestos Surveys
• Asbestos Abatement Project Design
• Abatement Monitoring and Oversight
• Contractor Selection Assistance
• Employee Hazard Awareness Training
• Operations and Maintenance Programs
• Emergency Response

Our staff have been providing professional and effective solutions to clients who seek to survey, manage or abate asbestos. The staff includes certified industrial hygienists, certified asbestos consultants, and certified safety professionals. The group commonly provides professional services to commercial, industrial and government entities. Professional services include asbestos surveys, abatement project design, abatement monitoring, contractor selection assistance, hazard awareness training, operations and maintenance programs, emergency response, and litigation support.

The key to managing asbestos is to:

• Identify its location
• Through laboratory testing identify its type
• Ascertain its condition
• Work out how much you have of the material

This can be achieved by carrying out one of the following surveys:

• Type 1- Presumptive survey
  (In this survey no samples are taken only a visual inspection takes place and any suspect material is presumed to be asbestos. While this is a cheaper and quicker way of complying with the regulations in the long term you may well end up with an expensive management plan for unproven asbestos).
• Type 2- Visual with samples
  (In this survey a representative number of samples are taken of any suspect asbestos containing materials and analyzed in an accredited laboratory, producing a far more accurate picture of the presence and location of asbestos within your building. While this survey is more expensive to produce you only end up managing positive asbestos material and it is invariably a cheaper situation) Type 2 survey is the most widely used to comply with regulations.
• Type 3- Fully intrusive with samples
  (This survey is normally used prior to renovation or demolition and is required to locate all asbestos within a building and therefore a more destructive inspection is carried out. Walls and pipe chases are removed to identify hidden asbestos containing materials. Samples are taken in the same way as for type 2 surveys.)

ABS Environmental staff is trained and licensed within the states of Ohio and Kentucky. We will carry out the survey best suited to your needs and with the results collate a report to show all the relevant information in a form that complies with state or federal EPA and OSHA regulations.