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  1. Asbestos Guidance Legal Update

    This half-day course provides information on everything you need to know about recently updated asbestos guidance with practical guidance from our expert course tutor. From January 2010, a new HSE guidance document, Asbestos: The Survey Guide (HSG 264), replaced MDHS 100. It has implications for all duty-holders and organisations throughout the UK regarding the management of asbestos in their buildin...

    Course_code | 9 Feb 2012

  2. Asbestos Awareness

    What is the course about? There is an explicit legal duty contained with The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006 to carry out asbestos awareness training. Regulation 10 states this training should be given to anyone whose work could foreseeably expose them to asbestos, in particular, those in refurbishment, maintenance and allied trades, including IT installers and professionals such as arch...

    Course_code | 9 Feb 2012

  3. Asbestos in schools a “national scandal”

    The presence of asbestos in most UK state schools constitutes a "national scandal", a Parliamentary all-party group has said, reports the BBC. It is calling for a scheme to remove the material after studying estimates which suggest it was present in more than 75% of schools. More than 140 teachers have died from the rare ...

    News | 2 Feb 2012

  4. Asbestos failings ‘fell between two departments’

    Lincoln University has been fined for putting staff, students and contractors at risk of exposure to asbestos. The failings came to light on 24 February 2010 when a lecturer became trapped in a room after a door lock broke. She enlisted the help of a colleague to release her and once freed, they noticed debris around the door handle. They notified the university's health and safety department which exami...

    Case | 18 Nov 2011

  5. Still confusion over schools’ asbestos responsibilities

    The HSE has said that checks on how schools outside of local authority control are managing asbestos have revealed that most have adequate arrangements in place, although 17% fell below acceptable standards in relation to management procedures. The HSE inspected a random sample of 164 independent, voluntary aided and foundation schools and academies between November 2010 and June 2011. It served ...

    News | 17 Oct 2011

  6. Asbestos training pledge targets beaten

    Thousands of tradesmen are to get free asbestos awareness training, following a call from the HSE for providers to pledge training time. The HSE, in partnership with industry, set a target of 4,000 hours of face-to-face training to be donated during September – one hour for each life lost to asbestos-related illnesses in an average year. A t...

    News | 10 Oct 2011

  7. Marks & Spencer fined £1 million over asbestos exposure

    Marks and Spencer plc and three of its contractors have been fined for putting members of the public, staff and construction workers at risk of exposure to asbestos-containing materials during the refurbishment of two stores in Reading and Bournemouth. The sentencing hearing resulted in Marks and Spencer plc being fined £1 million and being ordered to pay costs of £600,000. PA Realisations Ltd was fined £200, and Styles & Wood Limited was fined £100,000 a...

    Case | 28 Sep 2011

  8. Control of Asbestos Regulations consultation launched

    The HSE has launched a consultation on its proposals to introduce revised Control of Asbestos Regulations. The revisions would implement the changes required to comply with the European Commission's reasoned opinion on the UK Government's transposition of Directive 83/477/EEC as amended by 2003/18/EC on the protection of workers from the risks of exposure to asbestos at work. The reasone...

    News | 6 Sep 2011

  9. HSE asks for offers of free asbestos training

    A target of 4,000 hours of free asbestos awareness training has been set in a new initiative which aims to help tradesmen across Britain protect themselves from asbestos. The HSE is calling for those who run training course to pledge free hours during September to hit a target of 4,000 - the approximate number of deaths each year from as...

    News | 5 Sep 2011

  10. Asbestos prosecutions ‘a wake-up call for retail industry’

    Marks and Spencer plc and two of its contractors have been convicted for putting members of the public, staff and construction workers at risk of exposure to asbestos-containing materials during the refurbishment of two stores. The HSE prosecuted Marks and Spencer plc and PA Realisations Ltd (formerly Pectel Ltd) regarding work carried out between 2006 and 2007 at the Reading store, whilst contractor Willmott Dixon Construction Ltd was prosecuted for work car...

    Case | 19 Jul 2011

  11. Concerns raised about asbestos in schools

    A nationwide survey has “flatly contradicted HSE claims that the government is meeting its legal obligations to address the issue of asbestos in schools”, the Joint Union Asbestos Campaign (JUAC), who carried out the research, has claimed.   In September 2010, the HSE said that according to its own survey and follow-up inspection programme, it felt that the majority of local authorities in England with ‘system build’ schools hav...

    News | 4 May 2011

  12. Asbestos campaigners launch survey in conjunction with UKAS

    British asbestos campaigners have launched a national survey exploring general awareness and understanding of asbestos in buildings and the regulations designed to protect UK workers from being exposed to asbestos in their workplace.   The Great British Asbestos in Buildings Survey 2011 has been developed in co...

    News | 11 Apr 2011

  13. Site manager sentenced after worker exposed to asbestos

    A construction site manager from Barry has been sentenced after directing a bricklayer to demolish a wall that contained asbestos, which put him at serious risk. On 22 May 2009, Henry Bohlen, 63 was in Newport, supervising the refurbishment of the Monwel Hankinson facility, which manufactures equipment for people with disabilities. A full site survey for asbestos had been carried out, but Mr Bohlen failed to check the...

    Case | 11 Mar 2011

  14. Supreme Court rules on landmark asbestos cases

      Seven Judges at the Supreme Court have ruled that two families can keep compensation awarded by the courts to their now-deceased loved ones after they contracted mesothelioma, having come into contact with low level doses of asbestos dust.  It is believed that a number of other cases could now come forward from people exposed to small amounts of asbestos a long time ago. Dianne Willmore was diagnosed with mesothelioma at the end of March 2007 at the age of 46.  She said she had been exposed to asbestos whilst a pupil at...

    Case | 10 Mar 2011

  15. Roofing firm ‘put town at risk from asbestos’

    A roofing company spread asbestos fibres around a Leicestershire town when using pressurised water washers to clean roof panels on industrial units, the HSE has said.   Hampshire-based Concept Roofing and Cladding Services Ltd was contracted to carry out repairs to a dozen industrial units in Bath Street, Market Harborough, betw...

    Case | 3 Mar 2011

  16. Businesses warned about asbestos management responsibilities

    A demolition firm has been fined after failing to manage and monitor asbestos removal work at a site in Nottinghamshire. Yorkshire-based Libra Demolition Ltd was the Principal Contractor on a project to demolish buildings at the former Vesuvius works in Sandy Lane, Nottinghamshire between 25 March and 22 August 2008. A number of buildings on the site contained notifiable...

    Case | 22 Feb 2011

  17. Farmer fined for burying asbestos to save money

    A farmer has been fined for burying 2.3 tonnes of asbestos on his land. He was fined £6,500 and ordered to pay £3,500 in costs, along with a £15 victim surcharge. The charge was brought by the Environment Agency under Section 33(1)(a) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. For the Environment Agency, solicitor Michael Robinson told the Court t...

    Case | 22 Feb 2011

  18. UK not fully compliant on asbestos, says EC

    The European Commission has asked the UK to change provisions in its legislation that exempt some maintenance and repair activities from the application of the EU Directive on protection of workers from asbestos. It found that UK authorities do not comply with three clear obligations. The request takes the form of a reasoned opinion under EU infringement procedures. The UK now has two months to bring its legislation into line with EU law. Otherwise, the Commission may decide to refer the UK to the EU...

    News | 21 Feb 2011

  19. Asbestos duties and management

    So you’ve had your asbestos surveys carried out, registers have been compiled and building managers notified of the findings.   You’d like to be able to tick the box marked ‘Asbestos’ and move on to the next compliance issue. However, it’s a Duty to manage asbestos, not just a duty to survey, and that means ongoin...

    Video - Seminar | 18 Jan 2011

  20. Pub operator fined after asbestos exposure

    A UK pub operator has been fined after three electricians and two plumbers were exposed to asbestos during refurbishment works at a Darlington pub. Mitchells & Butlers Retail Ltd was refurbishing the vacant White Horse pub in Darlington when the construction workers were potentially exposed to deadly asbestos fibres. A HSE investigation found that the company had commissioned a survey to ch...

    Case | 30 Nov 2010

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