The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has been made aware that two UK laboratory supply companies have supplied schools and potentially other users with gauze mats which contain asbestos. HSE Inspectors ensured supply of the asbestos-containing gauze mats stopped...

A landlord and building contractor have been fined after large quantities of asbestos fibres were released from the demolition of a conservatory at a rented property. Birmingham Magistrates’ Court heard how the landlord commissioned a building contractor to replace a...

How do the HSE enforce the asbestos regulations? Asbestos regulations are enforced by HSE, Local Authorities (LAs) and the Office of Rail and Road (ORR).  LAs are the principle enforcing authority in: Retailing, Wholesale distribution, Warehousing,  Hotel...

A Bedfordshire builder has been ordered to pay in excess of £200,000.00 following prosecution.  Case summary: Suspicious materials were found when a fibrous piece of board from a partition broke off while being worked on by a contractor. The board was later...

A building firm has been prosecuted following construction work to refurbish a pub where the company failed to obtain results of a required asbestos demolition survey and commenced work.  An asbestos survey conducted (post works) found asbestos materials in...

Over 5,000 Asbestos-related disease deaths per year, highlighting the importance of information, instruction and training. Inhalation of asbestos fibres can cause cancers such as mesothelioma and lung cancer, and other serious lung diseases such as asbestosis and...