Mr Matthew Griggs

Mr Matthew Griggs is a well experienced, dedicated and enthusiastic individual with over 28 years industry experience managing the risk of asbestos and hazardous materials in both the built environment and brownfield contamination. Matthew was previously the Managing Director of the UKs largest asbestos consultancy, with 140 consultants and responsible for 10 regional offices incorporating 5 laboratories.

Matthew acts in the role of expert witness/opinion for asbestos related matters and provides pre-acquisition asbestos due-diligence services together with other bespoke hazardous materials advice. Including assisting licence holders with any enforcement actions taken by the Health & Safety Executive. He has worked and overseen hundreds of projects across many sectors from small surveys and monitoring to major high profile refurbishment and demolition projects incorporating procurement, surveying, design, monitoring, removal and reinstatement. Matthew was an advisor to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and their appointed site licence holders on asbestos management and remediation works as part of planned and current decommissioning of nuclear power stations.

Expertise includes:
Asbestos regulatory compliance and statutory management incorporating removal, training and legal frameworks  
Asbestos surveying guidance, planning, procedures and implementation
Asbestos compliance monitoring, guidance and standards
Asbestos exposure assessments  
Asbestos analytical identification of asbestos in bulk materials
UKAS accreditation, procedures requirements and compliance
Asbestos in soils, identification, management and remediation

Matthew is the holder of the Cardiff University Law School & Bond Solon (CUBS) civil expert certificate by virtue of successful completion of the following modules and exams: Excellence in written evidence, Witness courtroom skills training, Cross examination, Civil law and Procedure module 1 and Civil law and procedure module 2.

He continues to remain up to date with industry standards, guidance and regulations through consultations with peer group and Health & Safety Executive (HSE) updates. 

S301 - British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS) certified competent person (CCP) asbestos, P402 - British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS) Building surveys and bulk sampling for asbestos, IOSH Managing safely – 5 day certified course on Health & Safety Management, APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ), Asbestos Testing and Consulting (ATAC) - Committee board member 2014-2015, Construction Industry Research & information Association (CIRIA) publication “Understanding and managing asbestos risks in soils” – Project Steering Group member and contributor