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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’.
Legionella bacteria commonly found in water, can cause a serious type of lung infection known as Legionnaires’ disease, outbreaks occur from purpose-built water systems where temperatures are warm enough to encourage growth of the bacteria.
Immigration minister Robert Jenrick is understood to be chairing meetings about the situation and has said that none of those on the barge have shown signs of having the disease and are all being provided with “appropriate advice and support”.
Read more: Asylum seekers leave Bibby Stockholm amid fears over Legionella bacteria.
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Bradley Environmental Consultants are pleased to announce that they have partnered up with two local foodbanks to offer support in 2023.
Staff members and the management team have chosen the Batley Food Bank, which is local to the Wakefield Office and The Black Country Food Bank which is local to the head office in Halesowen.
Batley Food Bank, which was established in 2013, has helped 1000’s of people in need, by providing people of Batley and surrounding areas with 7-day food parcels, which can be collected from the centre or special arrangements for delivery can be made to those who are unable to visit the food bank.
The Black Country Food Bank was established in 2006 and helps vulnerable individuals and families in crisis through the provision of emergency food and toiletries supplies, while a longer-term solution is developed.
Both foodbanks have provided us with shopping lists of suitable goods that the staff can donate into collection boxes provided at each office, as well as QR codes and money collection pots to collect donations from staff and visitors.
Read more: Bradley Environmental Consultants Continue to Support Local Foodbanks in 2023
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Coming in 2023, Bradley Environmental Consultants will be running a series of half day sessions across the country aimed to provide clients with information surrounding asbestos management.
ASBESTOS MANAGEMENT AND PLANS
This half day event aims to clarify some of the responsibilities that clients have with regards to their asbestos management requirements. Many clients commission survey reports without support on what to do next, this session will aim to answer some of those questions.
SURVEY REPORTS - SPECIFICATION & UNDERSTANDING
As such an essential part of your asbestos management toolkit it might seem obvious how this is dealt with. This session aims to further develop knowledge and understanding to further empower you as an end user of asbestos surveys. We will also look at some of the pitfalls and “dark arts” employed on occasion to generate work.
ASBESTOS REMOVAL – THE ROLE OF THE ANALYST
This session aims to clarify some of the ambiguity surrounding asbestos removal as well as provide clients with a “deep dive” into the role of the analyst during remedial works.
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Following a reported concern regarding unsafe construction work, a former department store was found to have disturbed asbestos containing materials (ACMs) while demolition work was in progress, resulting in two former company directors being sentenced and fined.
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) was undertaken, following a report regarding unsafe construction work at the former Joplings department store. The age of the building and previous refurbishment work meant that there were vast amounts of ACMs inside the building. Several months of demolition and refurbishment work, where ACMs had been broken up using brute force and sledgehammers, resulted in asbestos fibres being spread across 5 floors of the building as well as outside of the city centre property.
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Of the 33,600 schools in Britain, more than 75 per cent contain asbestos. Due to this worrying statistic, the HSE will be carrying out a programme of inspections to primary and secondary schools in England, Scotland and Wales from September 2022 onwards.
The inspections will be assessing how schools are managing the risks from asbestos and meeting the ‘duty to manage’ (DTM) requirements under Regulation 4 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 (CAR). The regulations place duties on those with responsibility for the maintenance of work premises, including schools, to manage the risk from asbestos. For the majority of schools, this will be the employer.
Read more: HSE Inspectors to Assess Management of Asbestos in Schools from September
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A Company Director and his two engineering firms have been sentenced for failing to manage the risk from asbestos to employees within the workplace.
During a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspection in 2019, it was discovered that a large quantity of asbestos containing materials (ACM’s), including insulating board, were present at the factory premises in Kidderminster, owned by Kespar Engineering Limited.
Read more: Director Sentenced and Fined for Failing to Manage the Risk of Asbestos
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Throughout June the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) will be conducting inspections of construction sites as part of the month-long respiratory health initiative, Dust Kills. The campaign focuses on respiratory risks and occupational lung disease.
Each year in the construction industry, there are thousands of preventable cases of ill health caused by lung disease due to past exposure to dust at work. These diseases often have a life-changing impact and can result in an early death.
Read more: HSE Inspections throughout June as part of Initiative – Dust Kills
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The Government must commit to a strategy to remove all asbestos from public and commercial buildings within 40 years, MPs say today, with the risk to health only likely to increase as buildings are adapted with the move to net zero.
The Work and Pensions Select Committee said asbestos remained the biggest cause of work-related deaths in the UK warning that while "extreme exposures" might be a thing of the past, the risks were likely to escalate. More than 5,000 asbestos related fatalities were recorded in 2019.
Read more: MPs call for 40-year deadline to remove asbestos from all public and commercial buildings
Scottish regulator publishes report on ‘longest and most complex’ intervention with Glasgow landlord
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The regulator has published the findings of its 33-month statutory intervention into Thistle Housing Association (THA), which it described as one of its “longest and most complex”.
The report sets out why the regulator intervened at THA, which was forced to transfer its homes to Sanctuary last year as a result of various failings, and what action it took to safeguard the interests of tenants.
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Meet Lewis, a Lab Analyst and Technical Support staff member from our office in North Wales. Lewis started with us last September so we asked him some questions about working for Bradleys and what he enjoys doing in his spare time.
Tell us a little bit about your current job role at Bradleys?
I support the technical team at the North Wales office and I have just qualified as a Lab Analyst where I study samples that may potentially contain asbestos.
How are you finding working at Bradleys?
It is an enthusiastic environment and I enjoy working with all of my colleagues. Learning more about the history of asbestos and understanding the commercial and domestic use of it is also really interesting.
