Asbestos training adds up to £20,000 after employee awareness breach of HSE regulations
Council chiefs to shell out more than £20,000 on training staff after breaching health and safety law in their handling of an asbestos discovery at a school...
Tag: Children
No plans to remove asbestos from 38 Coventry schools
A recent Freedom of Information request from the Local Democracy Reporting Service revealed two thirds of Coventry schools contain potentially harmful asbestos. A total of 38 of the 57 schools of which the council is responsible for contain the substance, ...
Dept of Education re-open Asbestos management assurance process (AMAP) portal and extend deadline
The Dept of Education and Education Skills Funding Agency have reopened the 2018 to 2019 AMAP portal. This is to give responsible bodies a final chance to provide assured responses...
Children told to keep out of an unused school due to risk of asbestos poisoning
Young people and children have been told to keep out of an unused Highland school due to the dangers and risk of asbestos poisoning...
Outrage as asbestos flakes fall from ceiling of crumbling Scottish primary school into food preparation area
Despite kitchen has been shut, furious parents are demanding to know why their children were put at potential risk and are demanding effective action ...
White paper from Lucion Services calls for more, tougher asbestos safety controls
After finding the UK has the worst asbestos health related problems in the world, a new report from Risk Management consultants Lucion Services is demanding more and better safety measures on the presence of ACMs at work...
Kent County Council fined after workers exposed to asbestos at primary school
Canterbury Crown Court heard how an environmental health officer was carrying out a routine food inspection when they noticed what looked like asbestos rope hanging from the ceiling....
HSE offers advice to users of Bunsen burner wire gauzes that may contain asbestos
As a precautionary measure, and in line with the general legal requirement to prevent exposure to asbestos, the gauzes should be disposed of ...