Starting next week, a consulting firm will be conducting room-by-room inspections on campus in order to update the University’s inventory records for asbestos.<\/p>\n
Consultants from Pinchin Environmental will begin their inventory work next week and will continue over the next six to eight months.<\/p>\n
“Pinchin Environmental will be assessing, sampling and analyzing materials in buildings that may contain asbestos,” says Dan Pozzobon, the project’s lead contact from Brock’s Health, Safety and Wellness<\/a> unit. “This includes floors, mechanical systems, ceilings, ducts – any place that may contain asbestos.”<\/p>\n This update to the building material survey will assist Brock in the safe handling, control of, tracking and the management of asbestos-containing materials on campus.<\/p>\n The project follows the University’s recent purchase of a new software system that will track asbestos locations in buildings on campus. It is also a requirement of Ontario’s health and safety legislation.<\/p>\n