newsProtect staff from one of world’s biggest killers
COINCIDING WITH World Lung Cancer Day on 1 August 2020, the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) reminded employers to protect their staff.
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productiHASCO releases new version of popular Asbestos Awareness Training
iHASCO, a market-leading provider of Health & Safety and Compliance eLearning, has released an updated version of its popular Asbestos Awareness training course.
articleThe hidden killer
As the death rate from asbestos-related diseases continues to rise, Craig Evans looks at the part training can take in mitigating the risk.
newsIOSH raises asbestos awareness
IOSH’S NO Time to Lose campaign is partnering with the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization’s (ADAO) Global Asbestos Awareness Week (GAAW) from 01 to 07 April to help raise awareness of asbestos, the world’s biggest cause of work-related cancer.
news€100,000 asbestos exposure charge
JUDGE MELANIE Greally imposed a fine of €100,000 on McAleer & Rushe Contracts UK Ltd, a UK-registered construction company following an earlier guilty plea to a charge under the Safety, Health & Welfare at Work (Exposure to Asbestos Regulations) 2006 and 2010 at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
newsUnmanaged asbestos lands fine for recycler
ACE RECYCLING (NI) Limited and its sole director have been fined a total of £28,000 for health and safety breaches, including failing to ensure a suitable and sufficient assessment was completed to identify the presence of asbestos at a former factory site at Shaerf Drive, Lurgan.
newsDemolition company fined for asbestos failings
AN EMPLOYER has been sentenced for failing to reduce the exposure and spread of asbestos when demolishing a large pig shed.
newsDouble prosecution for inadequate asbestos removal
PROPERTY OWNER Michael Cutmore and building contractors B and S BM Limited have both been sentenced after a refurbishment project of an old hotel was found to contain asbestos containing materials (ACMs) on site while work was still taking place.
newsCollege fined for asbestos failings
NEWNHAM COLLEGE has been fined for failings that exposed employees and subcontractors to asbestos during refurbishment of a flat owned by the college.
newsCompanies fined after workers exposed to asbestos
RJW BUILDING Solutions Limited, a contractor carrying out refurbishment work at the Sea Hotel in South Shields, and Hotel 52 (Sea) Limited, the client company who arranged this work, were sentenced after workers disturbed asbestos.
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