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Two HSE asbestos campaigns highlight the risks
As we approach Global Asbestos Awareness Week (1 – 7 April), the HSE is calling on your support to share their asbestos campaigns with your networks to protect workers’ health….
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Inspectas “delighted” at successful Yorkshire Water tender for asbestos consultancy
Inspectas has successfully been awarded a place on the asbestos consultancy framework for Yorkshire Water.
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Asbestos – Your Duty: HSE launches new campaign to keep people safe from future dangers of asbestos
Asbestos: Your Duty launches today, Monday 15 January, with the aim of improving understanding of what the legal duty to manage asbestos involves…
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Construction firm fined £90,000 after exposing public to asbestos during renovation work
Nathan Cook, prosecuting on behalf of the HSE, told the court how the regulator received a concern on 31 August 2021 about asbestos disturbance. The concern related to a refurbishment project…
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Ensuring asbestos compliance at the University of Durham
Identify, manage, remove is the mantra of Inspectas’ Asbestos Manager Byron Cooper whose specialist advice, consultancy and expertise has supported the inhouse facilities management team at the University of Durham since 2020…
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HSE publishes refreshed asbestos guidance
Asbestos is the greatest cause of work-related deaths in Great Britain. Around 5,000 people die every year from asbestos-related diseases which typically take decades to develop and cannot be cured. HSE has refreshed its guidance on asbestos to help you protect yourself and your workers…
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Inspectas delighted to announce further expansion on our 10th anniversary
With a decade working in the public and private sectors specialising in asbestos surveys and removal, fire safety, health and safety compliance and land remediation, Inspectas has recently moved to new premises in Drighlington, doubling its office space to allow further team and departmental growth…
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Sunday Times joins NASUWT’s and Work & Pensions Committee’s call for urgent prioritisation of asbestos removal in schools
Last week the National Audit Office estimated that as many as 24,000 school buildings were beyond their initial design life, and of particular risk were 13,800 “system-built” blocks constructed between 1940 and 1980. Many of these contain asbestos…
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