Asbestos Survey
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This questionnaire is supported by all the trade unions, representing both teaching and support staff in schools. It is not meant to alarm you, rather it is designed to raise awareness about asbestos and to establish how asbestos is being managed in schools.

Your answers will enable the trade unions, and those responsible for the fabric of schools, to gain a better understanding about the way in which asbestos is managed in schools.

Please read the accompanying briefing before completing the questionnaire. In order to complete this questionnaire you will need specifically to ask to be given, or to be able to examine, your school asbestos management plan and asbestos survey.

Please answer the questions as accurately as you can. All responses will be treated in confidence.

Please respond by 15 November 2010.

Please co-ordinate your response with the other trade union safety reps and make only one questionnaire return for your school.

Please tick 'yes', 'no' or, where applicable, 'don't know' to the following questions

1. Since the Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations became law in 2004, there has been a requirement for all non-domestic premises, including schools, to have a management plan for asbestos. The initial work required to produce this plan is the carrying out of a survey to locate, identify and quantify any asbestos containing materials.

Have you asked for a copy of your school's asbestos management plan and survey? If no, go to Question 4 but remember that as a trade union safety rep you are entitled to inspect this document and should exercise this right.

2. If so, were you given a copy, or allowed to scrutinise that plan?

3. Is the management plan acted upon?

4. Has an asbestos survey been undertaken in your school in the last 5 years?

5. Is asbestos present in your school or college? If you are absolutely sure that your school contains no asbestos, tick the 'no' box and go to Question 14.

6. Is it clear within your school which member of staff is responsible for day-to-day management of asbestos?

7. If the answer to question 6 is 'yes', please give the member of staff's position within the school. If the answer is 'no', please go to question 8.

8. Is there a process of consultation with trade union safety reps whereby asbestos management is discussed within your school?

9. Has an asbestos register, showing the location of asbestos, been completed for your school? If 'no', or 'don't know', go to question 12.

(It may be that if there is an asbestos management plan in place, this includes information about the location and condition of asbestos, which equates to a register. If this is the case, tick 'yes').

10. If yes, do you know whether the register is automatically shown to contractors who undertake work at your school?

11. Are all staff aware of the existence of the register?

12. Where asbestos is present in your school, is it clearly marked?

13. Have staff in your school had any asbestos awareness training, including information on preventing exposure to asbestos?

14. Have you ever raised concerns over the management of asbestos in your school? If no, go to question 16.

15. If yes, were your concerns responded to satisfactorily?

16. Please provide the following information to help the trade unions collate the information.

Your trade union:

17. Sector?

18. Type of School/College?

19. School Postcode? (optional)