Businesses warned to take asbestos risks seriously

A shop fitting company has been fined after five workers were exposed to potentially deadly asbestos fibres.

 

Eastern Regional Shopfitters Ltd, based in Cambridgeshire, was prosecuted by the HSE after it ignored a report which stated asbestos was present in a shop it was working on.

 

Two workers spent five days ripping out old shop fittings at the Arndale Centre in Manchester in October 2009 before they discovered that asbestos had been used in some of the ceiling panels. Anot... (284 more words)

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