Belfast Health Trust have been fined £10,000, plus costs of £1,750, over health and safety breaches, involving asbestos, at the City hospital. The trust had previously pleaded guilty to three breaches of regulations. It followed an incident on 14th January 2011, when two construction workers were potentially exposed to asbestos when repairing a floor. An […]
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Wife dies from cleaning overalls
A retired painter whose wife died from cancer caused by cleaning overalls for 20 years is backing a campaign for more awareness of asbestos. Eric Ward’s wife Valerie dies at the age of 78 after being diagnosed with asbestos related mesothelioma. Mr Ward, 85, had worked at Aberthaw power station in the Vale of Glamorgan […]
Property owner fined for asbestos exposure
An industrial property owner has been prosecuted for exposing untrained workers to dangerous asbestos fibres following a series of failings at a building in Newport, Wales. In a prosecution brought by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Abergavenny Magistrates’ Court heard today (21 February) that Mr Nasimul Karbani, from Middlesex, employed two workers and then […]
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