Category Archives: Asbestos Industry News

  Date: 19 December 2016 An asbestos removal supervisor has been sentenced after admitting exposing numerous workers to deadly asbestos fibres during licensed asbestos removal works. Manchester Magistrates [..]

Two Essex-based companies have been fined after exposing workers to potentially deadly asbestos over a period of years, despite being alerted to the risks at their premises. Basildon [..]

A woman died of an asbestos-related cancer which she may have contracted from dust on her father’s work overalls decades before as a child. An inquest heard 59-year-old [..]

A Bolton night club owner has been sentenced after admitting a failure to carry out a survey for asbestos before starting on the refurbishment of a local night [..]

An employee exposed his workers to asbestos fibres during the refurbishment of a social club in Ashington, Northumberland. Mid and South East Northumberland Magistrates’ Court heard how on [..]

An Oxford based company has been fined after disturbing asbestos insulation board (AIB) at a school. Northampton Magistrates’ Court heard how Amey Communities Limited (ACL) were contracted to [..]

05th January 2016 A food company and their contractor have been fined after asbestos was disturbed during building work and only identified by chance when an asbestos removal [..]

A charitable trust and a contractor it employed has been fined for safety failings after disturbing asbestos and continuing to work in a building. The Williamson Trust is [..]

An engineering firm has been fined after asbestos was found at their factory and they failed to document or manage the risks to employees or visitors to the [..]

A St Albans cinema director has been fined after he put workers and members of the public at risk of exposure to asbestos. James Hannaway, 68, from Berkhampstead, [..]