College fined for asbestos failings during property refurbishment
Newnham College has been fined for failings that exposed employees and subcontractors to asbestos during refurbishment of a flat owned by the college...
Category: Education
Asbestos safety on HSE’s Health and Safety checklist for classrooms
As children and staff head back to school for a new term, the HSE has produced a checklist showing the real risks, including asbestos ....
Asbestos risk to teaching staff and children in more than 5,000 primary schools
New figures reveal that asbestos is found in nearly half of local authority run primary schools, putting children at increased risk of developing cancer...
FoI request reveals over 9 in 10 Solihull schools contain asbestos
46 of 53 schools are understood to have the material inside their educational buildings ...
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, ...
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...