productTHE HSE’S push on employee health and safety is at the forefront of everyone’s minds at the moment. Exposure to environmental hazards in the workplace has been difficult to monitor, but the ProtectoScan EDI from Extractability will change that.
newsTWO INTERNATIONAL organisations for safety and health at work are launching partnership support for a campaign about how ‘Healthy Workplaces Manage Dangerous Substances’.
newsTENS OF thousands of pupils and teachers and other staff could have been exposed to asbestos in science labs, after it was revealed by the HSE that two companies have been supplying equipment containing the deadly material to UK schools.
newsKENT COUNTY Council (KCC) has been fined £200,000 after asbestos was disturbed at Lansdowne Primary School.
newsTHE HEALTH and Safety Executive (HSE) is investigating batches of metal gauze mats containing asbestos, which have been supplied to schools.
newsA FORMER gas worker from Thornton-Cleveleys, who was diagnosed with an asbestos-related disease, has spoken of his relief after specialist lawyers at Irwin Mitchell secured him a six-figure settlement from his former employer.
newsA LANDLORD has been sentenced for failing to maintain gas appliances at a rental property and repeatedly failing to provide tenants with a Landlords Gas Safety Certificate.
newsA WOOD processing company has been fined after unsafe asbestos work was carried out at its premises in in Macclesfield.
productEnvironmentally-responsible cleaning products manufacturer Genesis Biosciences has launched its products to the consumer market – in a bid to help tackle public health concerns caused by volatile organic compounds in cleaners.
newsTHE WIDOW of a Newcastle man who was diagnosed with asbestos-related disease before his death has joined with legal experts at Irwin Mitchell to appeal to her husband’s former workmates to come forward and help her gain justice regarding his illness.
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