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Asbestos management and consultancy | Asbestos surveying | Bespoke asbestos software | Asbestos survey report production | Auditing Consultancy | Project management, overseeing asbestos removal | UKAS accreditation for analytical air testing works | Air monitoring | Online e-learning courses Canning Town, London

Based in Colchester, Essex, Survey Safe™ asbestos consultancy focuses on advising clients on their exposure to the hazards of asbestos within the work place and how any risks are best managed or removed. Survey Safe™ really is a one stop shop where the client can download their asbestos surveys, with confidence and within seven days of site completion. We employ a team of specialised asbestos consultants with many years of consultancy experience; advising on regulation, standards and duties required by law that are enforced by the Health and Safety Executive and the Environmental Health Office.

A little about Canning Town

Prior to the 19th century, the district was largely marshland, and accessible only by boat, or a toll bridge. In 1809, an Act of Parliament was passed for the construction of the Barking Road between the East India Docks and Barking. A five span iron bridge was constructed in 1810 to carry the road across the River Lea at Bow Creek. This bridge was damaged by a collision with a collier in March 1887 and replaced by the London County Council in 1896. This bridge was in turn replaced in 1934, at a site to the north and todays concrete flyover begun in smaller form in the 1960s, but successively modified to incorporate new road layouts for the upgraded A13 road and a feeder to the Limehouse Link tunnel, avoiding the Blackwall Tunnel. The abutments of the old iron bridge have now been utilised for the Jubilee footbridge, linking the area to Leamouth, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, on the western bank of the Lea.

The opening of the Royal Victoria Dock in 1855 accelerated the development of the area creating employment and a need to house dock workers and their families. New settlements around the dock developed, starting with Hallsville, Canning Town and Woolwich, and later the areas now known as Custom House, Silvertown and West Silvertown. The new settlements lacked water supply and had no sewage system, leading to the spread of cholera and smallpox. The casual nature of employment at the docks meant poverty and squalid living conditions for many residents, and in 1857 Charles Dickens wrote about the areas of Canning Town and the Victoria Docks.

The industries around the dock were often unhealthy and dangerous. As trade unions and political activists fought for better living conditions and the dock area became the centre of numerous movements with Will Thorne, James Keir Hardie and other later becoming leading figures in the Labour Party. From the late 19th century, a large African mariner community was established in Canning Town as a result of new shipping links to the Caribbean and West Africa. In 1917 50 tons of TNT exploded at the Brunner Mond and Co ammunition work in Silvertown, causing the largest explosion in Londons history and damaging more than 70,000 buildings and killing 73 people.

In the 1930s the County Borough of West Ham commenced slum clearances. New houses, clinics, nurseries and a lido were opened. Silvertown ByPass and Britains first flyover, the Silvertown Way, were built along with other new approach roads to the docks. Canning Town was heavily hit by the bombings in World War II and Canning Town Councils plan to rebuild the area focused on a reduction of the population, transferring industry and the building of new housing such as the Keir Hardie Estate, which included schools and welfare services. In the early hours of 10 September, a bomb hit South Hallsville School where up to 600 local refugees were accommodated. At least 200, mainly children, were killed or injured. Many bodies were never recovered.

The slum clearances and the devastation of World War II, destroying over three quarters of the housing stock, led to the preponderance of council estates that characterise the area today. Post war housing schemes followed the urban planning principles of the garden city movement. As demand for housing grew the first high rise buildings were built in Canning Town in 1961. In 1968 Ronan Point, a 22 storey tower block in Newham, collapsed and most of the tall tower blocks built in the area in the early 1960s were eventually demolished or reduced in size.

Survey Safe can handle all your asbestos related enquiries from start to finish. We have many years experience in the asbestos industry, enabling us to help keep you, your family or work colleagues safe from the dangers presented from the presence of asbestos.

Survey Safe provide the following services in Canning Town:

Asbestos management and consultancy
Asbestos surveying
Bespoke asbestos software
Asbestos survey report production
Auditing Consultancy
Project management, overseeing asbestos removal
UKAS accreditation for analytical air testing works
Air monitoring
Online e-learning courses.

Continental Environmental Services Ltd also deliver bespoke training courses in a wide range of topics via our online training courses section. These courses are designed to meet the individual needs of our clients, without the need to book costly meeting rooms, or getting all the candidates in the same place at the same time. The courses can be taken online with an easy to use video format at a fraction of the cost and with a fraction of management time. All our courses are approved by the likes of CPD: Continuing Professional Development, RoSPA: The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, IIRSM: International Institute of Risk & Safety Management, IATP: Independent Asbestos Training Providers and IFE: Institution of Fire Engineers.

So if you live or work in the Canning Town area and require the services of an asbestos surveyor, please give us a call today.

Managing your asbestos with Survey Safe and Survey Jem

Asbestos Registers and Management Plans relating to portfolio of buildings can be managed using Survey Safe™ or Survey JEM Database Software, collating all the asbestos risks for compliance with the UK and EU directives on asbestos containing materials. For more information on the content of the asbestos registers and management plans please refer to the report production and asbestos management sections of the website. These sections are fully integrated to provide a complete asbestos management solution.

Further Information

If you would like to know more about our procedures or are interested in a quote for our asbestos related services. Phone us on 07730 446 224, email us at info@survey-safe.com or fill in our contact form and we will be in touch as soon as possible.