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Cheshire based GrowHow have been found guilty of an asbestos related health and safety breech, amongst other breeches, after refurbishment and demolition work was allowed to commence without the commissioning of the appropriate asbestos survey. It was reported that contractors had been demolishing brickwork and insulation boards for two days, using hammers, chisels and crow […]
Read the full article | Published Oct 21, 2013
Poole Investments plc, of Amersham, Buckinghamshire, was fined £60,000 and ordered to pay a further £20,000 in costs after pleading guilty to three breaches of asbestos related regulations. The company was fined for various safety breaches of the Control of Asbestos Regulation 2006, after exposing workers to potentially fatal asbestos at a disused tile factory […]
Read the full article | Published Oct 08, 2013
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are currently employing Construction Inspectors to carry out a major inspection and enforcement initiative targeting the refurbishment sector and this initiative includes the adherence to asbestos related regulations. The inspections began on 2nd September 2013 and will run until 27 September 2013. The initiative has been implemented each year at this […]
Read the full article | Published Sep 17, 2013
Asbestos Exposure in Nottinghamshire A local property developer who pleaded guilty to exposing employees to asbestos has been given an eight-month suspended prison sentence and also been ordered to pay fines and costs of £100,000. Nottingham Crown Court was told today that James Roger Carlton, also known as Roger Stephen Parry, Aged 64, from South Leverton disregarded […]
Read the full article | Published Sep 04, 2013
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has launched a consultation on changes to the content of an Asbestos-related Approved Code of Practice (ACOP) this will consolidate two existing documents. Following an initial consultation in June 2012, it was agreed by the HSE Board that a number of ACOPs would be revised, consolidated or withdrawn in […]
Read the full article | Published Jul 22, 2013
