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November 2024 marks a significant milestone - its been 25 years since the United Kingdom implemented a complete ban on asbestos. This landmark decision prohibited the use, import, and supply of all forms of asbestos, including:
- Chrysotile (white asbestos)
- Amosite (brown asbestos)
- Crocidolite (blue asbestos)
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Occupational hygiene is a crucial aspect of workplace safety, focusing on protecting the health and well-being of employees by identifying and managing potential hazards. Whether it's potentially harmful chemicals, excessive noise or ergonomic risks to name just a few, occupational hygiene aims to minimise exposure to these threats, ensuring a safer environment not only for workers but also for the surrounding community.
Every day, on any job, you could be unknowingly exposed to deadly asbestos fibres. Unlike dust, asbestos fibres are invisible—you can’t see them, smell them, or feel them in the air or on your clothing.
Asbestos may be present in any building constructed or renovated before 2000, particularly those built during the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. If you’re working on an older property, there’s a real possibility that asbestos is already around you.
A company has been fined following an outbreak of Legionella at its sheltered housing accommodation in Birkenhead, putting vulnerable residents at risk of contracting Legionnaires' disease.
The deadly bacteria was detected at Vincent Naughton Court following the sampling of its water systems in the communal areas and flats in July and August 2018.
Bradley Environmental Consultants are excited to announce the launch of its brand-new website, commemorating 33 years since the company first began in 1991.
Bradley Environmental Consultants are delighted to announce that due to the continued success of our company, coupled with the benefits offered by the Government funded Apprenticeship Scheme, a vacancy has arisen for a Fleet Administrator Apprentice at our Head Office in Halesowen.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has announced that it will be visiting a range of businesses and organisations to check how asbestos is managed, ensuring that those responsible for managing asbestos have the correct arrangements in place.
The Bibby Stockholm is one of the new forms of asylum seeker accommodations the government are using to cut the costs of hotels, now ministers are facing questions about when tests were carried out, who knew what and when, after asylum seekers are removed from the barge in Dorset after the vessel’s water system was found to contain Legionella bacteria. It is unclear where they have been moved to, but the Home Office has confirmed all 39 migrants on board disembarked on Friday 11th August as a ‘precautionary measure’.
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