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An Asbestos Compliance Audit is an assessment of an organisations documentation, procedures and policies to ensure that the management plan is compliant with the current Control of Asbestos regulations.

HSE Inspectors are visiting manufacturing businesses throughout England, Scotland and Wales to monitor that employers and their workers have measures in place to prevent exposure to materials containing silica.

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’.

Bradley Environmental Consultants are pleased to announce that they have partnered up with two local foodbanks to offer support in 2023.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.