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Asbestos Register Collaborates With EntrySign to Reduce Accidental Asbestos Exposure in Schools

The UK National Asbestos Register has joined forces with a contractor management company to help mitigate the risks of accidental asbestos...

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HSE Releases Latest Workplace Fatality Figures

Health and Safety Executive figures show that 135 workers died in work-related incidents between April 2022 to March 2023, an increase of just over...

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World’s First Real-Time Airborne Asbestos Detector Wins Innovation Award

Alert Technology has won 2023’s Product Innovation Award for the Asbestos ALERT PRO Connected, the world’s first real-time airborne...

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Asbestos Issue at Westminster a ‘Real and Rising Risk’

The Public Accounts Committee has criticised the plan to repair and restore the Palace of Westminster, predicting that the building will be destroyed...

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HSE Calls Levels of Irreversible Lung Disease in Construction ‘Unacceptable’

Life-threatening lung disease caused by silica dust claims the lives of more than 500 construction workers each year. The Health and Safety...

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SOCOTEC UK Secures Three New Asbestos Management Contracts

SOCOTEC UK’s asbestos team has secured three major contracts with three of the UK’s largest supermarket and retail chains. These...

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UK Asbestos Regulations to be Abolished?

The British Occupational Hygiene Society, a leading scientific body and the Chartered Society for Worker Health Protection has welcomed the findings...

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Where is the Full Asbestos Strategy?

The British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS), a leading scientific charity and the Chartered Society for Worker Health Protection, together with...

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Education is Crucial for Asbestos Management in Schools

SOCOTEC is highlighting the risk of asbestos exposure in UK schools, and what the FMs should be doing about it. One of the main...

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70 Years of Workplace Health and Safety

As the country celebrates the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee year, Alcumus have taken a trip down memory lane to look at how health and safety has...

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Parliament Refurbishment Paused After Possible Asbestos Discovery

Reports suggest that refurbishment work at the Houses of Parliament has been paused after asbestos was discovered. According to a story originally...

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SOCOTEC Trials Asbestos Air Monitoring Device

SOCOTEC is trialling a new device that provides real-time data and warnings for airborne asbestos. Working with Alert Technology Ltd, SOCOTEC is...

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UKNAR Seeks Investment to Develop Asbestos Smart Technology

The UK National Asbestos Register is to raise £275,000 to develop its asbestos smart technology to better alert and inform...

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Performance Rating App for Asbestos Labour Under Scrutiny by Trade Union

An app which rates the performance of asbestos workers has been criticised by Unite, amidst concerns it could be used to victimise employees. The...

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Knight Frank Signs Up To Asbestos Smart Technology System

The UK National Asbestos Register has announced a new partnership with Knight Frank, the UK's leading independent real estate...

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Airline Company Guilty For Unsafe Operation of Passenger Lift

Flybe, the airline company, was sentenced on 4 February 2020 for the unsafe operation of a passenger lift. Meanwhile, a number of other firms have...

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Newnham College Cambridge Lands Asbestos Failings Fine

Newnham College Cambridge has been fined for failings that exposed employees and subcontractors to asbestos during refurbishment of a flat owned by...

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Hotel All At Sea Over Asbestos

Two companies have been fined. RJW Building Solutions, a contractor carrying out refurbishment work at the Sea Hotel in South Shields and Hotel...

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MoD Accused Of Failing To Warn Of Asbestos Dangers

Unite, has written to members on MoD sites cautioning them that their employer is failing to warn them about the dangers of being exposed to asbestos...

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58% Of Schools Across Greater Manchester Contain Asbestos

A Freedom of Information Request has revealed that schools across the UK are riddled with asbestos with no plans to remove it. The request was made...

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147 Dead - 2018/19 Fatal Injury Stats Released

July 3 saw the HSE release their annual provisional workplace fatality figures for 2018/19. 147 workers died between April 2018 and March 2019 (a...

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Sheriff Court Goes Further With Shell

The early days of August have already seen four companies receive substantial H&S fines. Shell received the biggest of these when a cylinder and...

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Working For Tips And Peanuts

Thames Water has recruited Biffa to tackle fly-tipping at its Oxford site and KP the peanut people have taken the firm on to do waste and recycling at...

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Asbestos Fanned By Sauchiehall Street Fire

The fire on Glasgow's famous Sauchiehall Street has led to the street and those in the vicinity being cordoned off for much longer - not because...

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Dursley Does It - Fine For School Unlicensed Asbestos Removal

A company has been fined following an unlicensed asbestos removal from a school. The unsafe and unlicensed removal occurred during refurbishment works...

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Public Liabilities & Crown Sensures

Company fined after falling scaffold clips hits pedestrian; MoD receives crown censure following royal navy technician death; Companies fined after...

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