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A Walthamstow Council has been criticised regarding asbestos in public buildings following revelations over the discovery of the toxic fibre in a school. The authority is already under investigation by the government’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) over its handling of the problem in Waltham Forest Town Hall, and now details have now emerged of how a […]
Read the full article | Published Oct 19, 2012
Controversial plans came into force on 1st October 2012 to charge contractors £124-an-hour for visits by safety inspectors. The Fee for the intervention scheme will see the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) recover costs from companies caught breaking the law. An hourly charge of £124 for HSE inspectors time investigating and taking enforcement action. The […]
Read the full article | Published Oct 18, 2012
Education Minister Leighton Andrews has announced that all schools in Wales must deliver reports on their asbestos levels by next week. The decision came after Cwmcarn High School in the Welsh Caerphilly County closed unexpectedly recently due to asbestos concerns. The school management team became aware of the concerns when a company visited the school […]
Read the full article | Published Oct 17, 2012
A Wokingham business has been fined for serious safety failings after two subcontractors were exposed to asbestos fibres while undertaking work at Reading University. Gardner Mechanical Services Ltd were contracted to undertake a mechanical services upgrade in a room at the University. They hired a Newbury-based contractor to undertake the project, who then in turn […]
Read the full article | Published Oct 11, 2012
The Country’s biggest ever probe into illegal asbestos dumping has climaxed in dawn raids which saw ten people arrested and released on conditional bail pending further enquiries until a date in January 2013. The operation involved sixty Environment Agency investigators, supported by Avon and Somerset Police, raiding several sites as part of ‘Operation Durable’. The […]
Read the full article | Published Oct 02, 2012
Councilors have unanimously rejected plans to use a quarry in Chew Valley, Bristol to dispose of hazardous waste, including asbestos. The Bath and North East Somerset Councilors followed the guidance of planners, who recommended the application be refused, stating that ‘it had not been demonstrated that the quarry was an appropriate location to dispose of […]
Read the full article | Published Sep 28, 2012
After months of campaigning against proposals to dispose asbestos in a quarry in the Chew Vallery, planners have also voiced their doubts regarding the plan by Oaktree Environmental. Local residents have voiced fears that the plan to dispose asbestos in Stowey Quarry could result in it leaking into the local water supply from Chew Valley […]
Read the full article | Published Sep 24, 2012
Staffordshire Council in guilty plea on asbestos exposure in school Staffordshire County Council is facing a large fine after admitting liability after dangerous asbestos fibres were released into a primary school in 2009. It is believed asbestos Insulation board, used as thermal insulation in construction between the 1950s and 1970s, was disturbed during months of […]
Read the full article | Published Sep 21, 2012
A huge cheer spread the globe in the minutes following the announcement by the federal government that they ‘no longer oppose global rules that restrict use and shipment of the substance”. The substance is asbestos and it’s crime? The deaths of more than 100, 000 people every worldwide and approx. 4, 000 people a year […]
Read the full article | Published Sep 20, 2012
The director of an asbestos consultancy firm based in Bromley, Kent has been given a suspended jail sentence after removing asbestos without a licence and doctoring air test results. Southwark Crown Court was heard on 13th September 2012 that Absolute Asbestos Ltd was hired to remove all the asbestos insulation from the boiler room of […]
Read the full article | Published Sep 14, 2012
