Consultancy Services

Asbestos Exposure and Risk Assessment

IOM independently investigates potential or historic asbestos exposure, helping you understand what may have happened, put the risk into context and decide what action to take.

Service overview

Understand what happened and what it means

An accidental disturbance of asbestos or concern about past exposure can leave employers with difficult questions. 

Who may have been exposed? How much could they have been exposed to? What does this mean for their health? And what action should you take now? 

IOM provides independent asbestos consultancy and risk assessment to help you understand potential exposure, put the risk into context and make informed decisions.

When this service may be needed

  • Asbestos has been accidentally disturbed
  • Employees may have experienced recent or historic exposure
  • Likely exposure needs to be reconstructed after an incident
  • Independent evidence is needed to support regulatory compliance or communications with employees

What does our assessment consider?

We bring information together to build an evidence-led picture of the likely exposure and its potential significance.

Following an incident, simply knowing that asbestos was present may not be enough to understand the risk. 

A robust assessment may need to consider: 

  • The type and condition of the asbestos-containing material
  • How the material was disturbed
  • The work taking place at the time
  • Who may have been exposed and for how long
  • The controls and working practices in place
  • Available monitoring, analytical and other evidence

Retrospective risk assessment

When an asbestos incident has already happened, it may still be possible to estimate the likely exposure and resulting health risk. 

Our specialists reconstruct the circumstances using information about the materials involved, activities undertaken, duration of potential exposure, controls in place and available scientific evidence. 

Where appropriate, we can use recognised exposure-response models to estimate the potential future health risk. 

This helps you move beyond uncertainty and answer the questions that matter: what was the likely exposure, what level of risk does it represent and what should happen next? 

Independent evidence for difficult decisions

Concerns about asbestos exposure can cause understandable anxiety for employees and create difficult decisions for organisations.

IOM provides an independent, evidence-led assessment that turns complex exposure and health information into clear conclusions and practical next steps.

This helps you respond proportionately, communicate clearly with those affected and demonstrate that the potential exposure has been properly investigated.

INDEPENDENT support

How IOM can help

Our specialists investigate potential exposure, review the available evidence and reconstruct the circumstances surrounding an incident.

Where appropriate, we can use recognised exposure-response models to estimate potential future health risk. We explain the findings clearly and provide practical recommendations for the next steps.

We provide clear results to help you:

  • Understand who may have been exposed
  • Estimate the likely nature and extent of exposure
  • Put the potential health risk into context
  • Review whether controls were effective
  • Respond proportionately to the incident
  • Communicate clearly with employees and stakeholders

Concerned about a potential or historic asbestos exposure? Talk to us about an independent assessment. 

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