Alert Technology Ltd are pleased to announce field trials of the ‘Asbestos ALERT’, their life-saving new real-time airborne asbestos warning device, will be starting outside of the UK for the first time with Mini Containment Nederland BV. The ‘Asbestos ALERT’ is the first device of its kind and the only known fibre monitoring technology currently capable of distinguishing between airborne asbestos fibres and non-asbestos fibres in real time using laser light scattering technology in conjunction with the unique paramagnetic properties of asbestos fibres. Developed as life-saving early warning device for people likely to disturb asbestos containing materials at work, ‘Asbestos …

ACAD has been supporting the development of the ALERT system for a number of years and it’s great to see this hasnow reached the field trial stage. We caught up with GilpinEnvironmental’s Technical Manager Rob Burley to find out why they are supporting this trial… “It really is a great piece of kit with potentially some great applications.The ability to offer real time fibre monitoring could revolutionise the air monitoring associated with asbestos removal works. The main problem with leak testing for example is the time delay involved and, unless youhappened to be running a test when a problem arises, …