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Staff and public exposed to asbestos during refurbishment work

A decorating company has been fined after it exposed employees, agency staff and members of the public to potentially fatal asbestos material.

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Nottinghamshire plumber fined after putting family at risk

A Nottinghamshire plumber has been fined after putting his son and a young family at risk of exposure to asbestos.

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Hotel chain fined for asbestos risk

A leading hotel chain has been ordered to pay more than £200,000 in fines and costs after construction workers and guests were put at risk of asbestos exposure at a Kent hotel.

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Building owner and sub-contractor in court for safety failings at former Brewery

The owner of a former Burton upon Trent brewery and the sub-contractor on a project to refurbish it have been prosecuted after a catalogue of safety failings was uncovered surrounding the unsafe removal of asbestos.

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Firms fined for asbestos exposure risk at scrap yard and naval training base

A number of workers and Royal Navy personnel were exposed to asbestos after pipes lined with the dangerous material were left on a roadside before being put in an open skip and transferred to a salvage yard, a court has heard.

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Health surveillance guidance for employers

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published new guidelines on health surveillance, which may be needed if there is a risk that workers could be exposed to chemicals or other hazardous substances likely to harm their health.

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Training call to South and East Yorkshire building workers

Young workers in the construction industries are being targeted with a series of potentially life-saving courses in South and East Yorkshire to alert them to the dangers of exposure to asbestos.

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Council in court for ignoring asbestos threat in school

Thurrock Council has been fined after admitting to failures in how it managed asbestos across its schools.

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Building owner fined for asbestos exposure

An industrial property owner has been prosecuted for exposing untrained workers to dangerous asbestos fibres following a series of failings at a building in Newport.

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Clydebank event to boost training to help apprentice tradespeople tackle hidden killer

Apprentice tradespeople across Clydebank are set to benefit from a new e-learning package to help them better understand the risks from asbestos.

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Unsafe work leads to fine and ban for director

The director of a Nottingham building firm has been fined after unsafe work on an asbestos cement roof.

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Council and building firm fined for asbestos exposure during school refurbishment

Staffordshire County Council and a refurbishment firm have been fined for exposing a nursery class, school staff and two joiners to asbestos fibres.

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Asbestos Liaison Group (ALG)

Minutes and agenda for the Asbestos Liaison Group (ALG) meeting on 21 September 2012, now available.

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Firm’s failures led to workers’ exposure to asbestos at Aberystwyth flats

Significant safety failures by a plumbing company may have led to two workers being exposed to dangerous asbestos fibres during a major refurbishment project on flats in Aberystwyth.

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Judith Hackitt’s ‘Risk Assessment’ – Every one counts

HSE Chair looks beyond the fatal injury statistics

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Cheltenham demolition firm fined for illegal asbestos removal

A Cheltenham demolition company has been prosecuted after exposing its own workers to dangerous asbestos fibres and illegally removing asbestos waste from a property in Gloucester.

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Contractors failed to alert workers to presence of asbestos

A Wokingham business has been fined for safety failings after two subcontractors were unwittingly exposed to asbestos fibres at Reading University.

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BOHS London Regional Meeting: Control of Asbestos – October 2012

British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS) London, South and South East Region in conjunction with the SCI Health and Safety Group presents a seminar on current asbestos issues, 24 October 2012, Society of Chemical Industry, London. Seminar starts at 17:00.

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Oldies, but Goodies!

Lewisham Homes in court after woman breaks jaw

Lewisham Council’s homes provider has been fined after a meter reader broke her jaw and smashed most of her teeth in a fall into an unprotected flood pit cellar beneath a block of flats.

Bedford company in court over worker’s broken leg

A nationwide removals firm has been fined for safety failings after a worker broke his leg whilst moving machinery at a site in Bedford.

Joinery firm in court over worker’s severed finger

A Dagenham-based firm has been sentenced after a worker severed a finger and seriously injured two others on a badly-guarded cutting block capable of 10,000 cuts per minute.

Unsafe gas work leads to fine for kitchen installer

A Staffordshire kitchen fitter has been fined after he carried out illegal gas work and put families’ lives at risk.

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