Packaging company fined £24,000 after failing to remove asbestos from West Auckland factory

A packaging company has been fined £24,000 for failing to remove potentially lethal asbestos from its factory. Smurfit Kappa UK Ltd, which has a site in West Auckland, County Durham, which employs about 170 people, pleaded guilty to two charges of failing to manage and remove the asbestos, at...

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Scalable, responsive and responsible: Inspectas completes 40 London-wide refurbishment surveys for leading gym chain

We’re into a lot of things here at Inspectas, though not all of them are suitable to share in our blog. However, two passions we’re happy to admit to are working with best of breed partners, and tackling big challenges head-on. We got both...

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National body UKATA urges contractors and specifiers to think about ongoing health risk of asbestos

The UK Asbestos Training Association (UKATA) is reminding not just contractors, but also those who commission building work to be carried out of the dangers of asbestos – following the case of a Welsh businessman fined for allowing the spread of asbestos containing materials (ACMs). Peter Rees was selling...

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