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FREE HSE Webinar - Duty to Manage Asbestos in Buildings
The HSE are pleased to invite you to join them on 15 May at 10:30am for their webinar titled "Duty to manage asbestos in buildings: The law, the risk to health and how to
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Company Fined after HSE Inspection Finds Wood Dust Failures
A company has been fined after an inspection by Britain’s workplace regulator found workers were being exposed to excessive levels of wood dust.Breathing in wood dust exc
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Director Jailed for Failing to Protect Workers from Asbestos Exposure
A company director has been jailed for eight months after failing to protect workers from exposure to asbestos at a student development project in Winchester.Stephen Davi
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Company Director Avoids Prison Over Wood Dust Failures
The director of a Norwich woodworking company has avoided an immediate spell behind bars after he exposed his employees to harmful wood dust.Wood dust can cause serious a
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Manufacturing Company Fined £15,000 for Wood Dust Failures
A manufacturing company has been fined £15,000 after exposing its own workers to wood dust and failing to comply with two improvement notices.Wood dust can cause serious
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Man Handed Community Order for Illegal Removal of Asbestos
A Hartlepool man has been handed a community order after he admitted removing asbestos from a school when he wasn’t licenced to do so.Sean Thomas Faulkner, 55, also inten
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HSE Publishes Annual Work-Related ill Health and Injury Statistics for 2022/23
Nearly two million workers in Great Britain reported suffering from work-related ill health in 2022/23.The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has today (Wednesday 22 Novem
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Lights, Camera, Take Action this World Mental Health Day - 10th October 2023
The scale of reported work-related stress across the UK economy has been increasing year on year, and Britain’s workplace regulator is campaigning for employers to take a
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Respiratory Risks in Construction: Early Findings from HSE’s Latest Dust Kills Health Campaign
A snapshot of good and bad practices of how workers’ exposure to dust is being managed and controlled on construction sites across Great Britain has been revealed.As part
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ANTWG – Health Surveillance Memo
At the 40th meeting of the Asbestos Network Technical Working Group (ANTWG) on 7th August they discussed Personal Sampling, Employee Health and Exposure Records. From thi
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