HSC approves revised asbestos regulations.
Published
on 11 September 2006 at 16:53.
Overall worker protection will strengthen with The Health and Safety Commission (HSC) recommending approval of the revisions in asbestos regulations.
HSE ’Wake up call’ for Asbestos Removal
Industry.
Published on 6 March 2006 at 11:41.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has called its second special leadership summit to ask the asbestos removal industry to make further improvements in reducing ill-health caused by work with asbestos.
MP blasts council asbestos advice.
Published on 6 March 2006 at 11:43.
AN MP today called for council officers to be disciplined after a disabled tenant was told to remove asbestos herself. In a letter to Birmingham’s cabinet member for housing, Coun John Lines, Steve McCabe said the advice to Georgina Bennett was "gross negligence".
Egg carton company fined over asbestos.
Published on
6 March 2006 at 11:46.
Following a successful prosecution of egg carton manufacture Omni-Pac (UK) Ltd, the Health and Safety Executive has reminded companies and contractors of the dangers of asbestos.
Published on 12 Jan 2006 at 10:32.
Back in March 2005, the High Court told insurance companies that they must compensate pleural plaque sufferers up to £7,000 for anxiety caused by the disease.
Published on 12 Jan 2006 at 11:09.
Wellings Limited (which trades under the name ‘Pink Skips’) was last month fined a total of £39,000 and ordered to pay costs of just under £31,000 - reports the Environment Agency.
Published on 12 Jan 2006 at 11:13.
Dozens of MPs have joined legal and safety campaigners to raise concerns about proposed changes to asbestos safety regulations.
Published on 12 Jan 2006 at 11:24.
Harnaik Singh Sandhu, trading as the Fascia Company, was last month fined £2,250 and ordered to pay costs of £1,770.30 for the deposit of asbestos waste and failure to provide information to the Environment Agency about the movement of such waste - reports the Environment Agency.
Published on 12 Jan 2006 at 11:39.
South Gloucestershire Council was last month handed a £25,000 fine after it allowed an unlicensed contractor to disturb brown asbestos in school buildings. The fine was small compared to the estimated £300,000 clean-up bill.
09:00 - 13 January 2006.
Asbestos has been discovered during surveys of an Aberdeen secondary school, council bosses admitted last night.
Asbestos in hospitals is ‘not a risk’.
TRACES of asbestos have been found in the loft space areas of several hospitals across Powys.
ASBESTOS SCARE OVER BLAZE AT LOCAL INDUSTRIAL ESTATE INFERNO.
The blaze at its height captured by Jewish Telegraph reader Mike Gastwirth A BUILDING occupied by five Jewish-owned companies was gutted by fire on Wednesday morning in a blaze, which caused an asbestos scare in the area.
MP blasts council asbestos advice.
Jan 9 2006 By Rhona
Ganguly, Birmingham Mail.
AN MP today called for council officers to be disciplined after a disabled tenant was told to remove asbestos herself. In a letter to Birmingham’s cabinet member for housing, Coun John Lines, Steve McCabe said the advice to Georgina Bennett was "gross negligence".
"Changes to asbestos regulations - Government consultation".
Posted
on 20/12/2005 at 11:40.
The Health and Safety Commission (HSC) has this month published a consultative document seeking comments on proposed amendments to the asbestos regulations and the Approved Code of Practice (ACoP).
The proposed changes will implement revisions to the EU Asbestos Worker Protection Directive 83/477/EEC in Great Britain.
"The Big Rip Off: Let’s not spend £8bn
to get rid of this stuff!".
Posted on 20/12/2005 at
11:27 GMT.
A series of new studies by internationally-respected scientists have exposed a scientific blunder which threatens to cost tens of billions of pounds, and which could affect millions of businesses and homeowners. New laws on asbestos introduced by Brussels and the Health and Safety Executive ... make no distinction between the genuinely dangerous amphibole forms of asbestos and white asbestos or chrysotile, [which is] chemically indistinguishable from talcum powder.
"West facing Asbestos Epidemic".
Posted on 05/12/2005
at 16:23 GMT.
The UK and many other developed countries are on the verge of an asbestos disease epidemic, say doctors.
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