New Guidance The Survey Guide Launched
Asbestos: The survey guide (HSG264)
February 29th 2010
This heavily illustrated publication replaces and expands on MDHS100, surveying, sampling and assessment of asbestos-containing materials. It is aimed at people carrying out.. Read More...
February 29th 2010
This heavily illustrated publication replaces and expands on MDHS100, surveying, sampling and assessment of asbestos-containing materials. It is aimed at people carrying out.. Read More...
Taking Asbestos Seriously
GOVERNMENT BUSINESS the Business Magazine for Government has reported on the risks and the price many are paying for exposure to asbestos.
Full details can be found here.
Full details can be found here.
Not just M&S in court over asbestos exposures
Retailer Marks and Spencer has pleaded not guilty to asbestos related regulations breaches during refurbishment work at stores in southern England. The Health and Safety Executive has initiated legal proceedings against M & S and four of their contractors after M & S staff and visiting customers were exposed to deadly asbestos fibres during refurbishment work at their Reading, Bournemouth and Plymouth stores. A court case is currently underway at Bournemouth Magistrates Court.
M&S has pleaded not guilty to three counts of breaching section 2(1), relating to its staff, of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, and three counts of 3(1), relating to members of the public and other workers.
Asbestos removal firm PA Realisations, (formerly known as Pectel), was not represented in court to answer allegations of breaching Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations 2002, however, Styles and Wood the large Cheshire based retail shop-fitting specialist has pleaded guilty to contravening sections 2(1) and 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act, and will be sentenced by the Crown Court at a later date. Willmott Dixon also implicated in the breaches has entered no plea to allegations of breaching sections 2(1) and 3(1) of the 1974 act.
A fifth company, Clarence Contractors, which is now in terminal liquidation, has been fined £200 plus costs for breaches of Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations 2002 and Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006.
The case is expected to continue for some time, and a further hearing has been set for early February 2010 at Bournemouth Magistrates Court.
M&S has pleaded not guilty to three counts of breaching section 2(1), relating to its staff, of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, and three counts of 3(1), relating to members of the public and other workers.
Asbestos removal firm PA Realisations, (formerly known as Pectel), was not represented in court to answer allegations of breaching Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations 2002, however, Styles and Wood the large Cheshire based retail shop-fitting specialist has pleaded guilty to contravening sections 2(1) and 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act, and will be sentenced by the Crown Court at a later date. Willmott Dixon also implicated in the breaches has entered no plea to allegations of breaching sections 2(1) and 3(1) of the 1974 act.
A fifth company, Clarence Contractors, which is now in terminal liquidation, has been fined £200 plus costs for breaches of Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations 2002 and Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006.
The case is expected to continue for some time, and a further hearing has been set for early February 2010 at Bournemouth Magistrates Court.
Unlicensed asbestos removal will be penalised warns HSE
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is warning the building trade that companies and contractors will face prosecution if they remove asbestos without a licence.
It follows HSE’s successful prosecution today (4 September) of three contractors who carried out unlicensed asbestos removal at Kelford School in Rotherham in 2006. Read More...
It follows HSE’s successful prosecution today (4 September) of three contractors who carried out unlicensed asbestos removal at Kelford School in Rotherham in 2006. Read More...
Two Enfield firms fined after unlicenced asbestos removal
Two companies have been prosecuted after workers and members of the public were exposed to unacceptable levels of asbestos during a removal project.
The Health and Safety Executive took the companies to court, on the 06 October 2009, after an unlicensed contractor carried out the specialist work at a warehouse in Brimsdown, Enfield.
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The Health and Safety Executive took the companies to court, on the 06 October 2009, after an unlicensed contractor carried out the specialist work at a warehouse in Brimsdown, Enfield.
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Asbestos Awaress training from £20+vat per person.
13/10/2009 22:40 Filed in: Asbestos Awareness
Asbestos awareness is a vital part of any employers training programme for their staff. As exposure to asbestos is the number one occupational killer, our course has been developed to provide the information to enable workers to question any material they feel may be suspected to contain asbestos. Read More...
Jamie Hanley: Asbestos victims left to suffer without justice
25/07/2009 16:04 Filed in: Asbestos Awareness | News
Sitting at the bedside of an innocent man or women, frequently in unbearable pain, knowing that their life is shortly to end and that the cancer that is killing them (mesothelioma) has been caused by their employer exposing them to asbestos is a very sobering experience. More often than not victims are not bitter, which never ceases to amaze me, but they are keen to know that their families will be looked after and that the same fate to which they are resigned will not befall their work mates. Read More...
Asbestos obligations don’t end with the survey
Perhaps a survey completed by an asbestos specialist says your premises are free from asbestos. But later on someone finds asbestos. What are you supposed to do?
Given the risks from even small exposures to asbestos fibres, many commercial clients attempt to meet their legal obligations to manage these risks in non-domestic premises by surveying for the presence of asbestos. What is less well known is that these obligation do not end there. What happens if the surveys are proven to have missed things? Read More...
Given the risks from even small exposures to asbestos fibres, many commercial clients attempt to meet their legal obligations to manage these risks in non-domestic premises by surveying for the presence of asbestos. What is less well known is that these obligation do not end there. What happens if the surveys are proven to have missed things? Read More...
1,200 mile journey to raise awareness of the harm caused by asbestos.
02/07/2009 20:56 Filed in: Asbestos Awareness
The three, including solicitor Katrina London of Sheffield based Irwin-Mitchell, halted at the Workers' Memorial Day Tree outside Sheffield Town Hall to meet colleagues from the firm and members of Rotherham Asbestos Group SARAG.
Katrina said: "It is a staggering fact that asbestos-related cancers remain one of Britain's biggest workplace killers, yet there is practically no dedicated research funding into these cancers. Read More...
Katrina said: "It is a staggering fact that asbestos-related cancers remain one of Britain's biggest workplace killers, yet there is practically no dedicated research funding into these cancers. Read More...
Australian Union's plea to ban Canadian exports
02/07/2009 20:51 Filed in: Canada | Asbestos Industry
Paul Bastian, State Secretary of the AMWU, which was at the forefront of the campaign against James Hardie, has written to the Canadian Consul General, calling for a ban on any further exports of asbestos, particularly to impoverished developing nations. Read More...
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