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Builders in Crewe are being encouraged to attend a free safety event after two construction workers were killed in Cheshire last year.
Statistics from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) show that there were 150 injuries in the county’s construction sector during 2009/10. Company owners and their employees are now being encouraged to attend a free health and safety awareness event at Crewe Territorial Army Centre on Wednesday 16 March.
The aim of the event is to improve standards in an industry where there are many potential risks – from falling from height to life-threatening health problems caused through inhaling asbestos or silica dust.
A farmer who buried potentially lethal asbestos on his land has been ordered to cough up more than £10,000 in fines and costs.
Last week Worksop Magistrates Court heard Anthony Bealby plead guilty to burying 2.3 tonnes of asbestos at Grange Farm, Lindrick Road, Woodsetts.
The court heard a series of visits by Environment Agency inspectors between November 2009 and February 2010 eventually found asbestos buried on land.
Bealby of Nidd Lane, Birstwith, Harrogate, took down a barn on Grange Farm with an asbestos laden roof for ‘financial reasons’.
He admitted cutting corners, saving more than £1,300 in proper disposal costs, by burying the waste instead of paying for it to be properly disposed of.
In June 2010 a land registry search confirmed Bealby had sold the land, but the asbestos was only removed this month following action by the Environment Agency.
Bealby was fined £6,500 and ordered to pay £3,500 in costs, along with a £15 victim surcharge.
Speaking after the case, a spokesman for the Environment Agency: “It is important the disposal of waste is regulated to ensure it does not endanger the environment.
“In this case the hazardous material was disposed of without any consideration for human health or the environment to avoid the true cost of its proper disposal.”
Source: Edie.net
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HEALTH Minister Edwina Hart has approved a £5.7m scheme to remove asbestos from a North Wales hospital. Six operating theatres at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd will be closed for up to a year from next month to allow asbestos to be removed from the ceilings and adjacent corridors.
The work is expected to cost £1.5m. Further work to remove asbestos from the roof, ground floor and other areas of the hospital will cost £4.2m. The Health and Safety Executive has been monitoring the hospital, which was built in the late 1970s, since a leak was discovered above two wards.
The work is expected to be completed in March 2012, when the hospital will comply with health and safety requirements and fire safety standards. Mrs Hart said: “The work at Glan Clwyd will improve safety and bring a hospital designed more than 40 years ago up to 21st century standards.
“The removal of asbestos will make way for a further programme of refurbishment to modernise facilities.
“This phased redevelopment will begin with the reinstatement of theatres and we will be assessing business cases from the health board for further work at the hospital.”
Michael Williams, chair of Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, said: “We’d like to reassure patients and the public we will be minimising disruption at the hospital and that the vast majority of services will continue to be delivered from Glan Clwyd as normal as the work progresses.”
Source: WalesOnline.co.uk
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Grant Prior | Mon 31st January | 18:00
Cost cuts have forced the HSE to dump an award winning campaign warning construction workers about the threat from asbestos.
Construction union Ucatt fear the decision could cost lives as the Hidden Killer campaign is dropped after two years.
The campaign comprised national and regional advertising in newspapers, radio and television and was supported with campaign packs, posters, stickers, flyers and leaflets.
The latest phase of the campaign was due to have been rolled out in October 2010. But Ucatt were informed the launch of the campaign had been delayed due to the Government’s spending freeze.
Alan Ritchie , General Secretary of UCATT, said: “The cancellation of the Hidden Killer campaign will cost the lives of construction workers.
“This is directly a result of the Government’s cuts. I challenge Iain Duncan Smith who is ultimately responsible, to look me in the eye and tell me cutting this campaign is justified and will not endanger the lives of workers.
“The lack of knowledge about asbestos among many workers is frightening. The Government has a duty to ensure that workers know the dangers and are fully protected. They must not play Russian Roulette with workers lives.”
Editorial Source: Construction Enquirer
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Rhodar removes asbestos from buildings, and has invested in a new batch of 25 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans, all equipped with the Eco-Start system.
This automatically cuts the engine when the vehicle is stationary for three seconds then re-starts it as soon as the driver depresses the clutch, reducing both fuel consumption and exhaust gas output.
The Sprinter 313CDIs were supplied by dealer Northside Truck and Van, also of Leeds, and replace a previous fleet of Mercedes-Benz vans.
Mercedes-Benz now claims a 75 per cent share of Rhodar’s total fleet of 150 vans, and this is set to increase further with the operator’s next round of orders.
Rhodar’s new vans are now at work transporting work crews, tools and equipment to sites across the UK, typically where asbestos has been exposed during alterations to buildings and needs to be safely removed and disposed of.
Some also tow mobile decontamination units – effectively highly specialised caravans, divided into three compartments.
After working on an asbestos site operatives enter at the ‘dirty end’, remove all their protective clothing, then move through to the middle section, which is equipped with showers, before exiting through the ‘clean end’.
Like all new Sprinters, Rhodar’s vans are fitted as standard with Trailer Stability Assist, which works with the Adaptive ESP electronic stability programme to counteract ‘fishtailing’ and make towing easier and safer.
Rhodar is part of environmental services provider Lexia Solutions Group: other divisions include controlled demolition specialist Bagnall; Thermac, which hires equipment to the asbestos removal and construction industry; and consultancy Life Environmental Services.
Source: BuildingTalk
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MORE than 2,000 kilogrammes of potentially dangerous asbestos has been removed from the pier since October’s devastating fire. It has also cost the borough council around £30,000 to hire security staff to prevent people going near the structure.
The news was revealed at a council meeting last Wednesday (December 22) by Councillor Peter Chowney, the lead councillor for regeneration and planning. He said: “In total 2,330kg of asbestos and asbestos contaminated material has been removed from the parade extension and beach below.
“This has been taken away in approximately 400 specialist sealed sacks to the contractors’ waste transfer yard in Brighton and from there to a specialist licensed tip in Bedfordshire.”
He said air samples were taken in the surrounding area following fears that hundreds of spectators and members of the emergency services were exposed to asbestos.
Cllr Chowney said results showed that there were no harmful levels in the air. He said: “The Health Protection Agency has advised that there was no significant health risk from removing the asbestos debris from the pier by using specialist contractors.
NICEIC has launched its Apprentice Academy with the twin aims of providing the electrotechnical industry with the necessary training, and plugging the skills gap in the electrical contracting sector.
“NICEIC is committed to improving standards within the industry and our Academy will give those starting out on their careers the knowledge to complete electrical installations in line with current and future working practices,” said the NICEIC’s chief operating officer Emma McCarthy.
“Apprenticeships can make industries more effective, productive and competitive by addressing the skills gap directly. They are the proven way to train the workforce of the future.”
The Academy – run in partnership with Bedford College – will see trainee contractors complete a series of fortnightly courses over two years before embarking on a final year of professional development under the guidance of NICEIC. The training covers traditional areas of interest including: asbestos awareness, first aid, aluminium scaffolding, risk assessments, certificate completion, periodic inspection and testing, alongside teaching in new technologies such as microgeneration.
Jack Howes, 18, one of the first apprentices on the scheme, said the apprenticeships gives him a good mix of on-site training and practical knowledge, such as regulations.
“I felt this course was better suited to my needs compared to a previous training course I was on, and when you are getting paid for learning, it keeps you motivated,” he said. Course manager at Bedford College, Jeff Welch, added: “I think these boys are quite privileged as they are getting the best training out there.
“The NICEIC programme includes six or seven additional modules compared to traditional courses including training on solar photovoltaic installations, which will be vital to electricians over the next few years.”
NICEIC will help cover the cost of an apprentice’s salary by subsidising their wage by up to £2,000 per academic year. All other costs associated with the student’s learning are covered by the partnership with Bedford College.
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A man who is dying from mesothelioma after exposure to asbestos has won his fight for compensation from BT.
In the 1990s Bernard Mottram, 82, installed telephone lines at a former secret government bunker in Wiltshire.
The 35-acre underground complex at Corsham was equipped during the Cold War in case of nuclear attack.
BT has agreed to make a compensation payment of £115,000 but the firm does not admit there was exposure to asbestos at this time in Corsham.
‘No masks’
Mr Mottram, from Bath, has months left to live.
He said he was not warned he would be working with the fibre or told to take any precautions.
“No masks, nothing like that in them days,” he said.
“Looking back all the time I was on BT I never heard the words asbestos mentioned to be honest.”
In a statement BT said it took its health and safety responsibilities very seriously, providing appropriate training and protection.
“For the purpose of this case BT has agreed to make a compensation payment to Mr Mottram in respect of his mesothelioma,” the statement said.
“The agreement has not been specific to any part of his employment.
“BT does not admit there was any exposure in the 1990s in Corsham.”
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In a World Report published Online First and in this week’s Lancet, the governments of both Canada and Québec are condemned by a number of anti-asbestos campaigners and the Canadian Medical Association for exporting asbestos to vulnerable developing countries. Lancet Editor Dr Richard Horton adds The Lancet’s voice to those calling on the Québec Government not to provide a loan guarantee to a consortium that will revive Canada’s currently dying asbestos exports for another 25 years. The World Report is written by Tony Kirby, Media Relations Manager at The Lancet.
For many years, Canada has been a major exporter of white asbestos or ‘chrysotile’, with other major exporters being Russia, Kazakhstan, and Brazil. But in the past two decades, bans on chrysotile (in addition to those long in force for blue and brown asbestos) have existed, either in law or de facto, in many high-income countries, including the United Kingdom, which banned chrysotile in 1999, and Canada itself, which has not legally banned chrysotile but has a de facto ban. As such, more and more of Canada’s asbestos has been going to developing countries, where few or no protections exist and as such a time-bomb of deadly asbestos-related death and disease will continue to grow. Mesothelioma is a specific lung cancer caused by exposure to asbestos, and diagnosis is almost always a death sentence. In the UK, deaths from mesothelioma have climbed from 895 in 1990 to 2,249 in 2008, with no sign of declining, as the effects of workers’ exposure in the 1960s and 70s continue to manifest. Similar trends are occurring in other high-income nations.
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ELDERLY residents were evacuated from a sheltered housing block and forced to set up home in hotels and hospitals after council contractors discovered asbestos. Residents were banned from entering their homes at the Archdale sheltered housing scheme in Rutland Street in High Wycombe last Friday, following the discovery during upgrade work to a block at the development.
Wycombe District Council sent 19 people to hotels and care homes on Friday after “becoming aware that material suspected of containing asbestos” was present on Thursday.
But the council has come under fire for its handling of the drama from angry relatives of evacuated residents, who called the treatment of their loved-ones “disgusting”.
Lynn and Michael Revel have been forced to sleep on the floor of their Bourne End home after giving their bed to Lynn’s 81-year-old mother, Joyce Price.
Mr Revel said: “The council should be ashamed. Why wait until Friday to evacuate them them if they knew about it Thursday? People’s health is at risk here.
“Most of the people that live there are in their 80s and 90s and they are treated like that, shoved out of their homes to hotels.
“We’ve been up there to try and collect some of my mother-in-law’s belongings and her wheelchair, but we’re not allowed in and they won’t get them for us. And the communication is pathetic – she’s distraught by it all, it’s disgusting.”
Peter Cusick had to take in his mother-in-law after she was evacuated – but raised concerns at the lack of procedures in place at the 55-bed development.
The Totteridge Avenue resident said: “We were there for two hours and there wasn’t a council person there except the warden, and she didn’t know what was happening.
“There were no masks being given out, which in that situation is dangerous. They didn’t have a clue what to do. It was a very poor show on the council’s part.”
A 43-year-old man, who did not wish to be named, has been forced to sleep in the back of his van after the council refused to find temporary housing for him.
He had been house-sitting his uncle’s flat at Archdale while he was in Pakistan.
He said: “The council told me I had no rights to be moved – I’m just lucky I work nights at the moment so I have somewhere warm to go to at night.”
In a statement, WDC said its priority was the wellbeing of residents, which is “why we took immediate, precautionary action in finding alternative accommodation for those living in the affected building.”
The authority went on to to thank residents for their understanding and patience during the “inconvenience that this incident is causing”.
WDC added it will “continue to speak directly with those residents affected and hope that the remedial works will be completed as soon as possible.”
The council said it was still awaiting test results to discover which type of asbestos had been found – but added the material is not uncommon in older properties.
Asbestos is a naturally occurring silicate mineral, but inhalation of the fibres can cause serious illness, including lung cancer.
Source: Bucks Free Press
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