Asbestos – Your Duty: HSE launches new campaign to keep people safe from future dangers of asbestos
Asbestos: Your Duty launches today, Monday 15 January, with the aim of improving understanding of what the legal duty to manage asbestos involves...
Category: Legal
Construction company fined and director sentenced after workers exposed to asbestos
Manchester based construction company has been fined and its director sentenced to a community order of 200 hours unpaid work after workers disturbed asbestos during a refurbishment project....
Middlesbrough woman in court over asbestos waste dumping near nursery
woman has appeared in court accused of involvement in the fly-tipping of 61 tonnes of rubbish - including two tonnes of asbestos - near a nursery...
New TUC research shows thousands of local authority buildings still contain asbestos
Asbestos is still the biggest workplace killer according to the Health and Safety Executive, and Britain has the highest rates of mesothelioma cases in the world. But the new research reveals...
Asbestos management company director jailed and fined £100k for failure to protect workers
Chelmsford Crown Court heard that concerns were raised by workers at Ensure Asbestos Management Limited who believed they were being put in danger whilst carrying out refurbishment work....
Health and Safety Executive to crack down hard on construction site dust
Starting on Monday 4 October, HSE inspectors across Great Britain will be targeting construction firms to check that their health standards are up to scratch during a month-long inspection initiative...
Manufacturing company fined after workers exposed to asbestos
Power Link Machines (UK) Ltd was sentenced for safety breaches after the HSE was informed the company was using gaskets within its generator sets that contained asbestos.
32 year old Newcastle man battling terminal cancer blames asbestos at former school
Chris Willis, who is battling terminal cancer, believes it was caused by asbestos in his old Kenton school, Aged 29, he received the terrible news that he had mesothelioma ...