Asbestos Enclosure Experience demonstrated

Hereford Asbestos Services have collectively many years working with an asbestos enclosure across the UK at large and small sites. Recently the team used their knowledge and skills in building asbestos enclosures to form an airtight construction around a window at a Historic building. The enclosure was built as a solution to preventing dust entering the main hall […]

Asbestos Removal Underway at Welsh High School

Asbestos removal work has begun at a high school in Wales which was forced to close in 2012. Cwmcarn High School, in Caerphilly, closed in October 2012 over fear that its 900 pupils were at risk to asbestos exposure. The pupils have been taught for the past 4 months at Coleg Gwent’s Ebbw Vale campus […]

Birmingham Builders Fined for Illegal Asbestos Removal

Two self-employed builders from Birmingham have been sentenced for exposing householders, as well as themselves, to asbestos. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Harnek Ram of Handsworth and Gulzar Singh of Smethwick, trading as G Builders, after they illegally removed and broke up asbestos panels from a home in Handsworth between 19 and 25 […]

Decorator fined after asbestos exposure

A decorating contractor has been fined nearly £82,000 after it exposed employees, agency staff and the public to asbestos material. The incident happened during refurbishment works at offices in Sentinel House, Nuffield Industrial Estate, Poole in 2009. Bournemouth Crown Court heard how MJC Decorating & Refurbishing Ltd began removing ceilings without carrying out an appropriate […]

Asbestos to be removed in public buildings by 2028 – is Herefordshire ready?

The European Parliament has filed a report calling for asbestos to be removed from all European public buildings by 2028. According to the official figures from the Health and Safety Executive, between 2002 and 2010 a total of 128 school teachers dies from mesothelioma. However, the campaign group Asbestos in Schools says that this figure […]

Thieves urged to seek medical attention after asbestos theft

Police are desperately urging thieves who broke into a decontamination caravan unit in Eastleigh to seek medical attention after they were exposed to potentially lethal asbestos. The thieves managed to force open the doors of the locked caravan and opened sealed bags. The bags contained blue, brown and white asbestos contaminated clothing. Labourers had been […]

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