Asbestos management is a form of business that deals with the correct handling of asbestos. An asbestos management company is employed to oversee the correct health and safety measures are undertaken as they check for the presence of, and remove, asbestos.

If asbestos is suspected to be present within a building due to the time at which it was constructed and the popularity of asbestos as a building material at that time, an asbestos management company should be called. The team will then survey the building for asbestos. There are three main types of survey: management, pre-refurbishment or pre-demolition. These surveys will distinguish the presence of asbestos and will also involve the taking of samples to be tested for asbestos in a laboratory. Should these samples come back as positive for the presence of asbestos, the asbestos will have to be contained safely and sometimes removed.