Company and director fined after workers exposed to asbestos
Inspectors from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) visited a site in Stretford, Manchester, and found an uncontrolled spread of asbestos containing materials around the premises.
Category: Asbestos Management
Companies fined after 16-year-old worker exposed to asbestos
The worker been breaking up cement sheets taken from the roof of the property and putting them into a skip. Asbestos was later found to be in the cement sheets, exposing the worker to asbestos fibres.
Two HSE asbestos campaigns highlight the risks
As we approach Global Asbestos Awareness Week (1 - 7 April), the HSE is calling on your support to share their asbestos campaigns with your networks to protect workers’ health....
Inspectas “delighted” at successful Yorkshire Water tender for asbestos consultancy
Inspectas has successfully been awarded a place on the asbestos consultancy framework for Yorkshire Water.
Asbestos – Your Duty: HSE launches new campaign to keep people safe from future dangers of asbestos
Asbestos: Your Duty launches today, Monday 15 January, with the aim of improving understanding of what the legal duty to manage asbestos involves...
Construction firm fined £90,000 after exposing public to asbestos during renovation work
Nathan Cook, prosecuting on behalf of the HSE, told the court how the regulator received a concern on 31 August 2021 about asbestos disturbance. The concern related to a refurbishment project...
Ensuring asbestos compliance at the University of Durham
Identify, manage, remove is the mantra of Inspectas’ Asbestos Manager Byron Cooper whose specialist advice, consultancy and expertise has supported the inhouse facilities management team at the University of Durham since 2020...
HSE publishes refreshed asbestos guidance
Asbestos is the greatest cause of work-related deaths in Great Britain. Around 5,000 people die every year from asbestos-related diseases which typically take decades to develop and cannot be cured. HSE has refreshed its guidance on asbestos to help you protect yourself and your workers...