newsUnsafe asbestos removal leads to fine
A CONSTRUCTION company and its director have been fined after failing to ensure the safe removal of asbestos during demolition work.
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articleHealth check webinar
Planning is the key to ensuring your health and safety arrangements really work and in the latest webinar from Southalls Ian Hatherly, Richard Denton, Sarah Leake and Caroline Lee looked at COSHH, asbestos and legionella, outlining challenges that their clients face today in terms of the increased focus on health and safety this year.
newsAsbestos fly-tipper jailed
ON THE 18 April 2019, Paul Williams appeared before Preston Magistrates’ Court and pleaded guilty to four offences. He was sentenced to serve 14 weeks imprisonment for each offence (concurrent) and ordered to pay £150 victim’s surcharge.
newsNHS employees exposed to asbestos
SHREWSBURY AND Telford Hospital NHS Trust has been fined after refurbishment work undertaken in an accommodation block at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital exposed Trust employees and contractors to asbestos.
newsContractor fined for illegal asbestos work
AN OLDHAM building contractor has been fined following the uncontrolled removal of asbestos during a garage conversion.
newsMan prosecuted for burning waste
SKIP MAN given a suspended 6-month prison sentence for dumping construction and demolition waste on land at Easton on the Hill.
newsAsbestos exposure still putting lives at risk
LIVES ARE still being put at risk by companies failing to manage exposure to asbestos – two decades after the deadly cancer-causing material was banned in Britain.
newsHoteliers fined after disturbing asbestos
A DEVON based hoteliers has been sentenced today after materials containing asbestos were disturbed during a major refurbishment at The Park Hotel in Barnstaple.
newsManufacturer failed to protect workers from asbestos
A FURNITURE manufacturing company, Godfrey-Syrett Limited (in administration), was sentenced for failing to prevent exposure to asbestos at its factory in Killingworth, Newcastle upon Tyne.
newsNew skill card for the asbestos sector
THE FACULTY of Asbestos Assessment and Management (FAAM), Asbestos Control and Abatement Division (ACAD) and The National Organisation of Asbestos Consultants (NORAC) have formed a collaboration to bring a new skills certification card, displaying the CSCS logo, to Asbestos professionals.
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