admin | February 20, 2010
A mother-of-two and fitness fanatic has died after being exposed to asbestos through her father’s work clothes, an inquest has heard. Tracey Carpenter, 43, died in November last year at Kettering General Hospital where she was being treated for mesothelioma. She had contracted the disease despite never knowingly being exposed to the material.
The Coroner read [...]
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 | July 10, 2009
Exposure to asbestos in the workplace has been recognised as a danger since 1955. But there has also been a steady stream of cases that show risk also extended to the home. This has included wives who washed their husband’s dusty overalls and children who helped are being diagnosed with the asbestos linked mesothelioma, a [...]
admin | July 9, 2009
George Barnes worked as a shipfitter at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard for 25 years, from 1967 to 1992. In 2005 he was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, a condition he blamed on exposure to asbestos at the yard. A San Francisco jury agreed and awarded Barnes and his wife, both 60 years old, $10.3 [...]
admin | July 8, 2009
A new duty to manage asbestos was added to the Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations and enforcement began in May 2004. It applies to you as dutyholder if you have maintenance and repair responsibilities for non-domestic premises either through contract or tenancy agreement, or because you own the premises.
The duty to manage requires those [...]
