Anyone responsible for a non-domestic building
The document most buildings are missing. Regulation 4 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 requires you to find out whether asbestos is present, record it, and write down what you will do about it. This is that record and that plan, and it is deliberately not a risk assessment: a register, a written management plan and a review log.
See inside
The asbestos register: nineteen rows, ruled for handwriting.
How you use it
Establish who holds the duty
Owner, occupier or both. The landlord and tenant split, and the common parts of a residential block, are set out on the first page.
Presume, then find out
Anything built or refurbished before 2000 is presumed to contain asbestos until proven otherwise. Check the age, the plans, and what you can see.
Fill in the register
Nineteen rows: location, material type, extent, condition, risk score, whether it is labelled, the action and its owner, and the date last checked.
Write the plan
Seventeen rows and three worked examples. For each area, what is there, what you do about it, who owns it, by when, and done.
Tell people before they work
Contractors and staff get the relevant part before they disturb anything. The disturbance procedure and the never-do list are on their own page.
Review it and sign it
Review at least annually and after any disturbance, survey or building work. Names, dates and the next review due.
What it covers
Both setsBoth workplace sets, for anyone running a building
Both workplace sets in one: every risk assessment an engineer, caretaker or cleaning team needs in a school, care home, office, gym, warehouse, workshop or surgery. Each one pre-filled with the hazards, who is harmed and the controls good operators already run. You score it, add anything specific to your building, and sign it.
19 assessmentsEngineers, caretakers and small maintenance teams
Eighteen general risk assessments for the engineer, caretaker or small maintenance team who keep a building running, plus the individual assessment for new and expectant mothers. Written for any workplace: a school, care home, office, gym, warehouse, workshop or block of flats. Each one is pre-filled with the hazards, who is harmed and the controls good operators already run. You score it, add anything specific to your building, and sign it.
13 assessmentsCleaning and domestic teams, in-house or contract
Twelve general risk assessments for the cleaning or domestic team in any building, plus the individual assessment for new and expectant mothers. Written for a school, care home, office, gym, surgery, factory or contract cleaner. Each one is pre-filled with the hazards, who is harmed and the controls good operators already run. You score it, add anything specific to your site, and sign it.
Good to know
6 pages as a single A4 PDF: find out what is there, assess the risk, record it in writing, write and run the plan, tell people, then review, then the law, records and sign-off.
No, and that is the point. Regulation 4 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 asks for a record of what is there and a written plan for managing it. Those are different documents from a risk assessment, and treating them as the same thing is the commonest error we see in template packs. Surveys, sampling and any licensed removal are jobs for a competent contractor; this is how you hold the duty, record what you know and manage it.
Not necessarily. Regulation 4 asks you to take reasonable steps to find out what is there, and for many buildings that starts with the age of the premises, the plans and what you can see. Where you cannot tell, you either presume asbestos and manage it as such, or commission a management survey to HSG264. Either route is recorded the same way in the register.
Everything downloads the moment you check out, and we email a copy too. No subscription. It is reviewed for August 2026, every figure is cited to its source, and you get any future update free when the guidance changes.