ARCA, the UK’s leading asbestos removal association, has published a Guidance Note on the responsibilities clients have when appointing asbestos contractors. The law requires that clients, make suitable arrangements for managing a project, and maintain and review these arrangements ...
A former electrician died after being exposed to asbestos during two stints at Rolls-Royce in Derby. Gordon Clifford started as an apprentice, his inquest was told. In a brief statement read out at Derby and South Derbyshire Coroner's Court...
A network of tunnels beneath the sprawling St Pancras Hospital site has been welded shut and danger signs placed around manholes after asbestos was discovered by specialists. Staff are being sent for lung tests and X-rays by Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust and a decontamination unit has been installed at...
A packaging company has been fined £24,000 for failing to remove potentially lethal asbestos from its factory. Smurfit Kappa UK Ltd, which has a site in West Auckland, County Durham, which employs about 170 people, pleaded guilty to two charges of failing to manage and remove the asbestos, at...