Asbestos removal company managers fined and sentenced after forging documents
HSE investigation finds defendants had used forged documents to obtain an asbestos licence from HSE in order to trade...
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The health and safety toolbox: Know your ABC of controlling risks at work
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has a great range of tools and guidance to help small and medium sized businesses understand health and safety...
Farms, building work, CDM regulations and asbestos – advice from the HSE
Most farms carry out some building work, from dismantling and re-erecting entire buildings to dealing with asbestos. All such work involves risks and you must put proper controls into place...
Widow’s battle after husband died as result of asbestos related cancer
Heartbroken widow is helping her husband fight justice from the grave as she takes on his ex-employer Teesside chemical giant ICI in a legal battle...
Council appeals for information to find asbestos fly-tipping culprits
Beauty spot is blighted by fly-tippers with damaged asbestos sheets ...
Leeds widower seeks help from ex-workmates after wife dies from mesothelioma
Washing her husband’s overalls may have caused the asbestos-related cancer which claimed the life of a great-grandmother from Leeds...
Police payout to family of officer killed by asbestos from 1984 Brighton bombing
Metropolitan Police officer Jonathan Woods became known as the “sixth victim” of the IRA attack on Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet...
Worrying rise in illegally dumped asbestos, ITV News reports
The visual and environmental impact of fly-tipping is stark, but now the risk to human health is also becoming clear...