New Duty to Manage Asbestos Guidance – Are You Compliant?

Asbestos is dangerous, even fatal. But it’s a quiet danger – grey, painless and invisible to the untrained eye, with years between exposure and effects revealing themselves. A threat this…

Regarding workplace health and safety hazards, asbestos is among the top ten. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has long been concerned about the impact of asbestos exposure on people’s…

November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month. The 30-day event has one message: if you are showing signs of lung cancer, seek medical advice urgently. Focusing a month-long campaign on just…

More than 5,000 workers in the UK die every year of asbestos-related diseases according to figures gathered by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). It is still commonly found in…

Asbestos in schools has been making the headlines recently, and rightly so. The once-dubbed ‘miracle mineral’ is now known as a silent killer and is present in most UK school…

Yes, it can. And there have been multiple reports of it happening: The roof of a school building constructed with RAAC panels suddenly collapsed in July 2018. Thankfully, the incident…

Asbestos-related deaths in the UK are still exceeding 5,000 a year according to the latest figures released by the Health and Safety Executive. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has…

The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 stipulate that specific measures must be taken to ensure asbestos safety in buildings that were constructed before the year 2000. These measures apply to…

To mitigate the risks posed by asbestos containing materials (ACMs), the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) released a document entitled Asbestos: The Survey Guide in 2010 (later updated in 2012).…

If you’re an adult in the UK, you know about asbestos. You know it’s dangerous and shouldn’t be used anymore. But despite being banned for use in construction for over…