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: Schools
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, ...
£150k fines for two construction companies for exposing sub-contractors to asbestos during school refurbishment
Two construction companies have been fined after sub-contractors working under their control were exposed to asbestos fibres during school refurbishment work...
Continued success for Inspectas Compliance as they are appointed to YORConsult2 Framework
Inspectas Compliance are delighted to announce their appointment to the YORconsult2 Framework, specifically for the provision of Asbestos Surveying...
National Education Union understandably critical of delays to the Government’s Asbestos Management Assurance Process (AMAP)
This week the DfE reopened its ‘Asbestos Management Assurance Process’, an exercise which asks school employers to declare whether they are compliant with their legal duty to manage asbestos in their schools...
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...
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...