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Silverdell PLC, the Specialist Environmental Support Services group, today welcomed the Health and Safety Executive’s changes to the Control of Asbestos Regulations, saying this could affect up to 730,000 workers in the UK.
Changes to the Control of Asbestos Regulations come into force today (6 April 2012) following amendments to bring the UK legislation in to line with the minimum standards of the EU Asbestos Worker Protection Directive.
The biggest change affects the current “Non-Licensable” work on asbestos. This category represents the vast majority of all work carried out on asbestos within the UK, affecting some 1.8m workers annually. The “Licensed” category of work on asbestos – affecting some 9,000 workers – is not intended to be affected.
The “Non-Licensable” category will be split into two and an additional category will be created which will be termed “Notifiable Non-Licensable Work” (NNLW). This will sit between the current “Non-Licensable” and “Licensable” categories. Works that fall into this category must be: notified, each worker exposed must have medical surveillance every three years and the employer must maintain a register for each worker of the type and duration of work done with asbestos – to be kept for 40 years along with copies of all medicals.
Marks & Spencer is being fined £1m for failing to protect customers, staff and workers from potential exposure to asbestos during refurbishment works, so it is important for anyone with control over non-domestic premises to familiarise themselves with the changes that are to be made to UK asbestos regulations.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) ended a consultation on changes to the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006 (CAR 2006) on 4 November, relating to proposed new regulations to replace the CAR 2006. The changes are being made to bring UK asbestos regulations in line with the EC directive on asbestos.
The revised regulations will mean that more employers carrying out some types of lower risk, short duration maintenance and repair work with asbestos will have to comply with requirements to notify of asbestos work, keep records and carry out medical examinations for workers.
In the future, there will be three categories of work with asbestos as opposed to two:
A Merthyr Tydfil-based recycling company has been fined for failing to take appropriate measures to control the risk of exposure of its workers and the public to the potentially fatal Legionella bacteria.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Merthyr Industrial Services (Biomass) Limited following an investigation of its premises as part of HSE’s response to the outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease along the Heads of the Valleys corridor in September 2010.
A Cardiff letting agent has been sentenced after a handyman was exposed to asbestos-containing material while carrying out work on a client’s property.
A self-employed handyman from Cardiff, who does not wish to be named, regularly carried out work on properties managed by Rochefort Shugar Ltd and on 15 October 2010 was sent to a domestic property in Sully to fix a leaking porch roof.
As he was removing a sheet of material from the underside panel of the damaged roof, he realised it was asbestos-containing insulation board. The sheet was broken during removal and the surrounding area was contaminated with asbestos debris.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuting, told Barry Magistrates’ Court the removal of the panel and the sweeping up and bagging of the debris would have resulted in the significant release of asbestos fibres into the air.
Two Worcestershire companies and a contractor from Hall Green have been prosecuted for releasing asbestos fibres during an office refurbishment project in Birmingham city centre.
Inspectors from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) uncovered a series of failings during the refurbishment of 114-116 Colmore Row, work that included upgrading a lift containing asbestos insulating board.
Birmingham Magistrates’ Court heard how building owners Evanacre Colmore Row Ltd and project managers Marchment Consulting hired builder Roland Morewood to carry out work over the weekend of 29 January 2010.
When lift engineers arrived, they found pieces of asbestos insulating board spread around the lift shaft area and refused to carry on working.
HSE inspectors stopped all workers from going into the building until it had been decontaminated. Air tests taken on several floors of the premises revealed significantly high levels of asbestos fibres, which were also found in several vacuum cleaners.
Asbestos insulating board was found stored in Roland Morewood’s van, which itself was heavily contaminated with raised levels of asbestos fibres in the air. By law it should have been disposed of by a licensed contractor.
A COMPANY has been cleared of all charges in a court case over deadly asbestos at Hugh Christie Technology College.
A jury at Maidstone Crown Court heard Basildon-based firm Advanced Environmental Services was called in to the Tonbridge college’s old building in May 2009 to get rid of asbestos before demolition.
It was alleged the firm failed to observe safety measures, putting workers’ lives at risk.
But on the second day of the three-day trial lawyers for the company argued there was no case to answer and, in a surprise move, the prosecution announced on Wednesday it would be calling no further evidence in the case.
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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A Poole waste transfer site owner has been ordered to pay almost £3,500 in fines and costs for breaching tough environmental regulations.
Philip Pidgley, director of FDS Waste Services Ltd, admitted breaking the terms of his permit after one-and-a-half tonnes of asbestos was discovered at his premises.
The Bournemouth Magistrates’ Court case, brought by the Environment Agency, followed a routine inspection of FDS Waste Services’ transfer station site, at Clapcotts Yard, Mannings Heath Road, Poole, last September.
Escalation of Mesothelioma Epidemic
Data released by the Health and Safety Executive on October 27, 2010 detailing British mesothelioma deaths reveals an inexorable rise in annual fatalities. Between 1990 and 2008, the number of fatalities increased from 895 to 2249. Over the last ten years there has been a 46% increase in mesothelioma deaths (from 1541 in 1998 to 2249 in 2008). See: http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/tables/meso01.xls
Source: International Ban Asbestos Secretariat
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