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ARCA and ATAC the leading industry associations for asbestos removal and asbestos management have announced the dates of their Asbestos Industry Update Seminars for 2012. The line-up includes industry expert speakers from UKAS and HSE.
The Asbestos Removal Contractors Association (ARCA) and ATAC (Asbestos Testing and Consultancy Division) will be running regional seminars providing a general update to changes that have taken place during the last twelve months. The seminars will cover various points and subjects such as CAR 2012, Asbestos in Soils, Prosecutions and Preventative Measures, Asbestos in Schools as well as presentations from UKAS and HSE covering various issues.
The day has been broken up into sections to allow delegates to take in all of the information that will be presented with ample time slots programmed in to ask the speakers questions on each presentation. ATAC have also programmed in various breaks to allow delegates time to network with other delegates.
Workers in building trades in the Humber region are being given the chance to learn how to recognise and deal with one of their industry’s biggest killers – asbestos.
A series of training courses is being offered by the South Yorkshire & Humber Working Well Together Group – a partnership between key players in the construction sector and allied trades, plus the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Courses are aimed mainly at small and medium businesses and welcome everyone from joiners and painters to plumbers and general builders.
FLY-tippers who left asbestos in a South Tyneside country lane were blasted for putting the lives of people and animals at risk.
Council officials are asking for help to track down those responsible for the “disgraceful” dumping of asbestos cement at the side of a road in West Pastures, West Boldon,
It is the sixth case of asbestos being abandoned in the borough in the past two months, and the second in the West Pastures area.
A range of asbestos seminars are being held across the UK between May and July 2011 for the purpose of instilling industry minimum standards and best practice.
This year’s series of seminars are client focused with an aim to educate and instil industry minimum standards and best practice for clients, managers and directors who are directly and indirectly involved with asbestos management.
The seminars will provide a recent review of changes to asbestos management, current asbestos industry standards which should be employed by clients and also there is ample opportunity to answer any questions that are of concern to you.
A contracting firm was sentenced after workers at a major renovation site in Plymouth were exposed to asbestos containing material.
CLC Contractors of Southampton was fined £10,000 and ordered to pay £3,064 in costs for the May 2009 incident, the Health and Safety Executive said.
Employees of CLC were refurbishing three student blocks at the College of St Mark and St John in Plymouth. CLC had agreed with a specialist asbestos removal company that they would work simultaneously in parts of the building already cleared by the asbestos removal workers.
However, the builders began work in an area of the building that had not been cleared of asbestos.
Four employees were exposed to fibres and had to go through a specialist decontamination process, the HSE said.
HSE inspector Barry Trudgian said the incident could have been avoided if an adequate risk assessment had been made before the work started and communicated clearly to the workforce. “Exposure to asbestos can have serious long-term consequences for your health and precautions must be taken to minimise any risks when working on buildings.”
Asbestos-related diseases are responsible for around 4,000 deaths every year, the HSE said.
Further information on working with asbestos can be found at the HSE web site.
Source: FM World
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Fly tipping – an expensive and messy business…BBC Watchdog reports. Expensive because it costs us ALL around £100,000 a day to clear up and messy because it blights streets in towns and cities across the UK. The countryside, too… There are more than a million reports of illegally dumped rubbish every year – one every 12 seconds.
Tyres, furniture, building rubble. You name it, it’s been dumped. So who’s refusing to dispose of our refuse properly? We went to the south coast to meet Mr. Marc Bairstow. He’s known to the authorities in Southampton for being a fly-tipper, and has dumped all over the city for months. But one of his regular haunts has really got the residents riled… Martin Petch is the warden at the Holy Trinity Church in Millbrook in west Southampton, where they’ve had a few messy visitors of late. Describing what the average visitor to his churchyard might see, he said, “… An assortment of materials from house clearances; building materials, and rubbish, toys. You name it, it was all there… it was quite a considerable amount and it took several days to clear in the end. “Really, it’s hitting community at its lowest ebb. People mourning, coming to visit graves, people going to worship and they were greeted with site of rubbish. So it was really quite appalling.”
In this month’s column, Fireco, supplier of fire safety products, systems and services, warns of the continuing dangers of asbestos in the workplace and the implications of failing to manage it properly
If you were asked what the single greatest cause of work-related deaths is, what would your guess be? Well, it may surprise you to know that in the UK it’s asbestos, which is responsible for around 4000 deaths a year.
That may seem like a staggering number of deaths from something you’d think was banished a long time ago. But asbestos was only fully banned from use in 1999, so if your premises were built or refurbished before then, there is a possibility that asbestos-containing materials (ACMs), commonly used in floor tiles, pipe lagging, Artex, fuse boxes, rainwater pipes and central heating systems, could still be present.
The danger arises when asbestos is damaged through bumps and scrapes or destroyed by cutting, drilling or ripping, releasing airborne fibres which can be lethal. However, if properly controlled and maintained, there is no reason why materials containing asbestos cannot remain in use for many years.
The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006 cover the ‘duty to manage’ asbestos in non-domestic premises by owners and managers and others with relevant responsibility. Landlords also have a duty of care to ensure that asbestos is managed in their properties, especially in communal areas.
Failure to comply with the asbestos regulations may mean that a prohibition notice is placed on your buildings – effectively closing down your workplace until it is confirmed as safe. The duty-holder of a commercial property could also be liable for prosecution under the Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations.
Source: FMX
Asbestos campaigners have launched a national survey exploring general awareness and understanding of asbestos in buildings and the regulations designed to protect UK workers from being exposed to asbestos in their workplace. Take the Great British ‘Asbestos In Buildings’ Survey
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A plant hire company and a construction services firm have been fined for exposing employees and members of the public to asbestos.
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found Mansell Construction Services Ltd of Croydon and sub-contractor Woodlands Plant Hire Ltd of Ickleton, South Cambridgeshire, put workers and the public at risk by failing to properly manage the presence of asbestos during the refurbishment of a residential block of flats, between 24 November and 8 December 2009.
During the work in an occupied London Borough of Hackney block of flats, asbestos insulation board was disturbed and removed by unlicensed contractor, Woodlands Plant Hire Ltd, potentially releasing the deadly substance into the air.
A previous survey, identifying the presence of asbestos insulation board in a number of the properties, had been provided to Mansell, but had not been acted upon or passed to their sub-contractors.
Mansell Construction Services Ltd pleaded guilty and was fined £50,000 at the Old Bailey for breaching Regulation 22(1)(a) Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007.
Woodlands Plant Hire Ltd pleaded guilty of breaching regulations 5, 8(1) and 11(a) of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006, and was fined £50,000. The companies were ordered to pay joint costs of £20,690.
HSE Inspector Dominic Ellis said:
“Despite recent high profile campaigns on the dangers of working with asbestos, this case sadly illustrates some companies are still failing to manage the risks robustly.
“Mansell had information that asbestos was present, yet neglected to act on it, meaning a licensable asbestos material was removed in an uncontrolled manner, needlessly risking the health of contractors and members of the public.”
Asbestos-related diseases are responsible for around 4,000 deaths a year. Working on or near damaged asbestos-containing materials or breathing in high levels of asbestos fibres, which may be many hundreds of times that of environmental levels, could increase your chances of getting an asbestos-related disease.
Source: HSE
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THIS dramatic image reveals the next stage in the multi-million pound refurbishment of Peterborough Musuem. Workmen had to remove deadly asbestos from most rooms in the old building in preparation for the next stage of revamp.
A spokeswoman for Vivacity said: “This week work has commenced on the removal of the asbestos contaminated pipework from the various areas of the museum. “This is to allow for the replacement of pipework in readiness for the installation of a new heating and ventilation system throughout.”
A MAN has been fined after admitting dumping a bag of asbestos outside a business in the Cheney Manor Industrial Estate. At Swindon Magistrates’ Court Robert Marsh, 53, of Longthorpe Close, Toothill, pleaded guilty to the charge.
The court heard that Mr Marsh left the bag on land at unit 2 in Darby Close at 8.20am on Saturday, February 13, 2010, after being spotted unloading the rubbish from his car. When the owner of the premises approached him to ask what he was doing, Mr Marsh drove off.
Bromley Council have awarded Invicta, a South East based asbestos management company, their three year asbestos management contract.
The contract will cover approximately 350 non-educational sites throughout the borough.
The contract began in February and covers asbestos surveying, sampling, reporting, air monitoring, risk assessments and supervision of asbestos removal contractors as and when is needed by the council.
Dr Paul Wright, Head of Asbestos at Invicta, “We are delighted to have been awarded the contract with Bromley and are looking forward to working with them over the next three years.”
For more information please visit www.pennington.org.uk
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Nearly one in four construction sites across the Tees Valley were so dangerous that workers lives were being put at risk according to inspectors who visited them during the first two weeks in March.
In an initiative aimed at reducing deaths and injuries in one of Britain’s most dangerous industries, inspectors from the Health and Safety Executive visited 30 sites. Seven of these were found to be so far below required standards that inspectors had to issue formal enforcement notices. They were targeting refurbishment projects − the worst performing sector of the construction industry.
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