admin | January 29, 2010
This is the worst response I have ever seen on Yahoo Answers.
Someone called “Andrea B” writes as follows in answer to a question on the dangers of Asbestos in Artex ceilings.
After spending many hours scraping off artex using a steamer I would definitely recommend getting in a good plasterer and leaving the artex alone. [...]
admin | January 28, 2010
Last year the revised Health and Safety Executive (HSE) guidance for asbestos surveys came into force replacing current guidance known as MDHS 100. This will be a comprehensive regime covering surveying, sampling, and assessment of Asbestos Containing Materials (ACMs).
It will affect you if you are a duty holder. A duty holder is the person or [...]
admin | January 20, 2010
We have had a few calls from Farmers wanting to start the process of complying with the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006. A few questions have been common:
How much will it cost? Like everything the answer is: It depends. However the first visit by one of our surveyors is free and is generally done within [...]
admin | January 19, 2010
The main regulation is the Control of Asbestos Regulation (CAR) of 2006. This regulation, in simple terms, says that:
There must be a defined Duty Holder empowered to be responsible for all asbestos related issues. This is usually the land owner though depending on the lease it can be the operator
The Duty Holder must survey all [...]
admin | January 18, 2010
A farmer who stored waste on his land close to work being carried out on a sea wall, has (Tues) been fined £4,000 and ordered to pay full Environment Agency costs of £3,582 after pleading guilty to breaching the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Howard Alexander Baker of Lovedown Farm, Lower Road, Hockley, Essex was visited [...]
admin | January 18, 2010
On January 12th 2010 at Bournemouth Magistrates’ court the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) initiated criminal proceedings against Marks and Spencer plc and four other companies for asbestos-related breaches during refurbishment work at shops in Reading, Bournemouth and Plymouth, where it is alleged that the companies failed to ensure that staff and members of the [...]
admin | January 17, 2010
The National Farmers Union are concerned by the cost of the new regulations governing the disposal of white asbestos cement, used in many thousands of post-war farm buildings. Until 2006 white asbestos cement could still be disposed of by burying it or using it as rubble for farm tracks. But since then farmers have [...]
admin | January 2, 2010
Many former workers may be living with a cancer time bomb due to the place they were employed years before, said a coroner at the inquest of a man who died from an industrial disease. Albert Sargood, 71, from The Rise in Warfield Park, Warfield, died in on August 8 from the disease peritoneal mesothelioma, [...]
admin | January 2, 2010
Nottingham City Council tenants living in defective homes riddled with asbestos say they have been let down by the council. At least 70 tenants living in Newland Homes – built as temporary accommodation for soldiers and their families after the Second World War – say they have waited a decade for their properties to be [...]
