Established in 1989 Envirogard now hires specialist equipment to contractors throughout mainland U.K. Equipment is supplied from our hire depots at Tamworth, Bristol, Manchester, Barnsley, and Ashford (Kent), and the company is a full member of the Hire Association Europe, and an associate member of the Environmental Industries Commission.

Much of our hire equipment is employed by contractors engaged in environmental clean-up and pollution control. However our hire equipment is also used by contractors who only occasionally encounter hazardous materials in the course of their work; typically telecomms. engineers, electricians, roofing, shot-blasting and painting contractors – to aid them in complying with health and safety regulations.

Hire products broadly fall into the following classes:

Showers, Decontamination Facilities, and Welfare Units:

To help contractors comply with their obligations to protect their employees and the 

general public during work with potentially hazardous materials Envirogard offers an extensive range of showers, decontamination units, and welfare units:

►Emergency drench showers are highly mobile and can be located just about anywhere. 


They include an emergency eyewash station as standard and serve as a primary decontamination shower in case of a hazardous material spill.

Once charged with clean water these units are autonomous, and do not require connection to mains utility services.

►Modular Decontamination Showers are often the only option where space constraint prohibits use of static or trailed decontamination facilities. Quickly and easily erected at site from lightweight panels, these systems are intended for indoor use.

►Trailer Decontamination Showers - we operate an extensive hire fleet of decontamination trailers allowing us to cater for the requirements of different industrial users. Water heating is either electric or (most commonly) by an integral room-sealed balanced-flue LPG water heater.

All models have (at least) three compartments which provide separate Dirty, Shower and Clean areas, and are equipped with certified HEPA grade air-filtration to aid containment of hazardous materials. 

A range of sizes is available from our smallest Micro single shower trailer catering for just 4 people, up to our Maxi Quad shower units accomodating 16.

Self-contained units are also available, equipped with integral clean water tanks and long-run generators.  

We also supply combi units equipped with a 3-stage decontamination facility AND welfare facilities - all within one trailer.  Additional options include boot-wash stations, waste-water filtration systems, pressure washers etc.

►Welfare Units are intended for tow to site using a large estate car or van.  Each trailer is equipped with 2 showers, cassette toilet [user serviceable], hand-wash basins, separate galley (microwave-grill, hot plate with kettle, fridge, plus sink), and a mess/office area with table.

Site Services / Ancillaries:
We recognize that many sites lack basic utility services and have their own unique problems. Based on the most frequent customer requests we offer a range of ancillary products including:

►compact water bowsers
►portable generators
►clean-water supply pumps
►waste filtration units
►Hilta pressure washers
►transformers
►110v extension cables
►halogen lights etc.

Ventilation, Fume & Dust Control Equipment:
We offer a range of equipment for handling "air" in one form or another, with machine capacities from 800 m3/hr up to 5000 m3/hr.  In summary:

►At the simplest level we offer portable and transportable axial and centrifugal fans for ventilation and fume extraction applications; flexible ducting is available to hire or buy.

►For suppression of nuisance dust e.g. concrete, cement, brick-dust, shot-blasting overspill etc. we have a range of centrifugal extraction fans which can be coupled with medium grade air-filters to reduce air borne dust levels.

►For fine and / or hazardous dusts we have specialist air cleaning / dust control equipment [including Negative Pressure Air-filtration Units - NPU's] to meet most applications.  These machines are equipped with HEPA (High Efficiency Particle Arrestor) filters which typically remove very small particles (less than 1 micron) with better then 99.99% efficiency.  Please discuss your particular application with our hire desk.

Specialist Industrial Vacuum Cleaning Equipment:
Where dust has already settled high efficiency vacuum cleaners allow collection with minimal disturbance and maximum capture. For hazardous dusts (including asbestos) H-Type vacuums are available, constructed to BS5415 and with 3-stage filtration.

The final stage includes a HEPA filter module and each machine is individually tested and certified for its filtration efficiency.  110v machines are standard throughout the hire range but compressed air driven models are available on request.

Also available are wet pick-up vacuums in both 110v & compressed air driven versions (not H-Type).

Envirogard is a division of Specialist Hires Ltd, Lydd Yard, Aldington (Kent), TN25 7AL.  

The company is forward looking and is constantly looking for new ranges to introduce to the hire fleet. 

If you know of a product which you think would be a useful addition to our hire equipment range - please don’t hesitate, tell us !

USEFUL LINKS / ORGANISATIONS / SEMINARS

We aim to help our customers keep up to date by providing topical news, information on seminars and training courses, legislation and consultations, and convenient links to other organisations.

The information (and links) are provided without liability and do not constitute an endorsement or recommendation:

British Occupational Hygiene Society: 

A series of open seminars entitled “Managing Asbestos in Premises, the Survey Guide”. 

This series of joint BOHS/ATaC seminars is aimed at building surveyors, asbestos accredited inspection bodies and clients who want to find out more about the new Health and Safety Executive (HSE) guidance on asbestos.

HSE has reviewed its 'MDHS 100' guidance on asbestos surveying, which describes Type 1,2 and 3 surveys and this document will be replaced with 'Managing Asbestos in Premises, the Survey Guide', which will describe management surveys and refurbishment/demolition surveys.

Seminars are being held in Leeds (3^rd February), Glasgow (3rd March), Norwich (18^th March), Cardiff (19^th May) and Birmingham (16^th June).  

For more information or to book a place please contact lousie Hall at BOHS - louise.hall@bohs.org

Aston University, School of Engineering & Applied Science:

One day course “Developments in Asbestos Assessment and Management”

SEAS at Aston University will be holding a one day course on 30th March, 2010.  Topics covered will include the Asbestos Survey Guide, Management Surveys, Refurbishment/Pre-demolition Surveys, Asbestos Contaminated Land plus other developments - including Supervisory Licence Holders, Asbestos Licensing and notification, and Asbestos in schools –CLASP buildings.  

For more information click here, or to book a place contact Helen Mallinson at cpd-seas@aston.ac.uk

Environmental Industries Commission:

Next meeting of the "Contaminated Land Working Group" will take place on:

Date: 3 March 2010

Time: 11am - 1.30pm

Venue: Central London

Major Agenda Item: forthcoming guidance on the removal of asbestos from soils.

For information on this topic or to find out about the EIC's "Contaminated Land Working Group" please contact danny.stevens@eic-uk.co.uk 

Health & Safety Executive: HSE Asbestos Liaison Group (ALG).

The ALG meets 3-4 times a year to consider issues relevant to asbestos, its control, management, disposal, occupational health, training etc.  For a link to current members of the ALG click here.

To link to the most recently published minutes click here.

 

DEFRA – Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs:

Consultation - Guidance on the Groundwater (England and Wales) Regulations 2009.

Proposed guidance on the Groundwater (England and Wales) Regulations 2009 (Statutory Instrument 2902) is now out for consultation from Defra. The regulations were given to the Environment Agency and came into force on 30 October 2009 and replace the Groundwater Regulations 1998 which have now been repealed. 

The new guidance will replace the guidance issued in 1999 in respect of the Groundwater Regulations 1998.  The consultation closes on Monday 29th March.  For a link this consultation click here.