May 24th, 2011 by admin
Workers exposed to low levels of asbestos dust have been given the green light to launch claims for compensation following a landmark ruling in the Supreme Court in March 2011.
One of the country’s leading legal experts in this area said he expects compensation claims to rise significantly with people involved in a wide range of trades now set to pursue a claim.
In the past, workers in trades where asbestos was widespread, such as shipbuilding and engineering provided the bulk of claims but now office workers, teachers and lab technicians are set to make a stand.
The Supreme Court has awarded compensation to the family of Dianne Willmore, who died of mesothelioma, an asbestos cancer, after having small doses of asbestos dust while she was at school. She was diagnosed at the age of 46.
Before she died, Willmore
May 24th, 2011 by admin
LK Management has just completed a project with West Yorkshire Fire Service to refurbish and improve the existing Hunslet Fire Station in Leeds.
May 24th, 2011 by admin
When not working at Bury office as Project Manager for LKPR and The Invasive Plant Company, Mike Inman can usually be found training or racing mountain bike downhill. Mike competes in full domestic downhill seasons including regional series, nationals and national championship events. Due to the nature of the sport, Mike is often away for up to 4 weekends a month and a lot of travel is involved. Venues range from North Wales and the Midlands, to South Wales, Yorkshire and Fort William in the Scottish Highlands.
Mike has been riding mountain bikes for as long as he can remember and racing for 10 years. Having been plagued with injury at the start of the 2011 season, Mike will be taking time off to recover and train with a view to getting the season back on track at the third round of the national series in Glencoe. Career highlights included 2008 Welsh Dragon senior series overall winner and 2nd place expert at the 2009 English championships.
Mike currently competes in expert category and is supported by Continental Tyres UK, Orange Mountain Bikes, Fox Racing UK and Science In Sport.
May 24th, 2011 by admin
February and March saw the arrival at the LK Group of Lee Wild and Paul Arnold.
May 24th, 2011 by admin
The Invasive Plant Company (IPC) have recently completed phase one of a considerable Giant Hogweed and Japanese Knotweed remediation project on a proposed hospital site in central Dublin.
May 24th, 2011 by admin
The last few months have seen the expansion of LK’s activity in the field of energy monitoring and retrofit.
January 10th, 2011 by admin
Challenging times are ahead for Government agencies with the need to achieve savings across the board due to the economic downturn. With the recent change in Government, what does this mean for the contaminated land sector with regards to Part 2A funding and dealing with contaminated land through the planning process?
Identifying and dealing with contaminated land is a statutory function through the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Existing sites are identified, prioritised and investigated under Part 2A of the Act, whereas new developments are managed through planning and building control guidance notes (Policy Planning Statement: 23 and Building Control Approved Document C respectively).
Dr This statutory function should be serviced by the Government, but with regards to planning, this is dealt with locally by senior management who determine what slice of the dwindling money cake they can divert to contaminated land. In future, as belts tighten some may rely on a skeleton staff, while others maintain existing staff levels, depending upon what importance individual Local Authorities place on
January 10th, 2011 by admin
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January 10th, 2011 by admin
With every man, woman and their dogs blogging at the moment we’ve decided to join them with a blog about Japanese Knotweed, from Knotweed pies to burial chambers it
October 7th, 2010 by admin
You may be aware that new regulations for the SAP calculation come into force on 1st October 2010.
Part L1A 2010 aims to reduce CO2 emissions by 25% over Part L1A 2006 regulations, which equates to a 40% improvement over a dwelling built to the 2002 levels. Under these new Regulations a SAP calculation
September 24th, 2010 by admin
LK Group achieves UKAS Accreditation to Asbestos HSG 264 to further raise industry standing
Manchester environmental consultancy the LK Group has become one of the first companies to achieve UKAS accreditation to the new HSE standard for asbestos surveying.
The group has bucked the current cost-cutting trend by significantly investing time and money to achieve accreditation to a standard that will provide clients with an even greater level of confidence in its asbestos surveying capabilities.
The recently published HSG 264 Asbestos: The Survey Guide replaces the existing MDHS100 and highly competent surveyors who have been accredited by UKAS to this new standard are now being strongly recommended by the HSE.
Director in charge of asbestos services, Clair Leyden said:
July 7th, 2010 by admin
Education Secretary Michael Gove today set out a complete overhaul of capital investment in England
June 24th, 2010 by admin
Bury based environmental consultancy, The LK Group, has launched its latest online product www.code4homes.co.uk, which is designed to help enable more effective management of The Code for Sustainable Homes process.
The LK Group
March 1st, 2010 by admin
A number of unions has welcomed an audit report that points to serious mismanagement of asbestos in Britain
November 26th, 2009 by admin
A new generation of workers are at risk unless building trades get to grips with Britain’s biggest workplace killer – asbestos, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned.
Figures from the HSE show that around a quarter of the 4,000 or so people dying from asbestos-related diseases each year in Britain are tradesmen such as joiners, electricians and plumbers. About twenty lose their lives each week.
Across Britain, more than 35,000 people died from the asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma between 1977 and 2007 – and the numbers dying are increasing. Latest annual figures show that 2,156 people died from the disease in 2007 alone, up five per cent on the previous year.
HSE has today launched a
November 26th, 2009 by admin
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Leeds City Council (LCC) are working together to carry out a targeted inspection campaign of businesses throughout the Leeds area.
From November, Inspectors from the HSE and LCC will be undertaking a programme of health and safety inspections aimed at raising awareness and improving standards of health and safety in businesses throughout the area.
Inspectors will provide employers with advice and information wherever possible. However, where employers are found not to be complying with the law then appropriate action will be taken, which may involve the service of Improvement and/or Prohibition Notices and in some cases, where serious breaches are identified, action through the courts may be necessary.
In view of this impending campaign, LK Assure would strongly urge all employers in the area to review their current safety management systems, and where they have concerns or queries, to contact our consultants on the advice line.
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November 26th, 2009 by admin
Two businesses and a company director have been fined after workers in Manchester were exposed to potentially deadly asbestos fibres.
The prosecution by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) came just days before the launch of a national
November 23rd, 2009 by admin
The authorities knew it was deadly more than 100 years ago, but it was only banned entirely in 1999. The annual death rate will peak at more than 5,000 in 2016
November 3rd, 2009 by admin
A waste-management business has been fined
October 12th, 2009 by admin
One of the UK
July 7th, 2009 by admin
A recent survey carried out by Stroma Accreditation revealed that the take-up of non-domestic EPCs currently stands at approximately 15-25%. All LK clients are reminded of the following (which is taken from Page 15 of the guide to energy performance certificates for the construction, sale and let of non-dwellings)
Continue reading ‘Commercial EPC News’
June 26th, 2009 by admin
In a series of recent reports the Environment Agency (EA) has stated that one in every six homes (2.4m properties) are under threat of flooding from rising sea levels and heavy rain. Continued investment in flood defences is therefore required by central and local government. However, the Local Government Association has said that 60 per cent of councils lacked the money to reduce the risk of flooding.
Continue reading ‘Flood Risk News’
April 9th, 2009 by admin
Land Remediation Relief (LRR) allows an additional 50% of qualifying expenditure on the remediation of contaminated land to be deducted from a company
December 18th, 2008 by admin
It is no secret that the environmental sector and the construction industry as a whole has, and still is considered a male dominated profession. However as the LK Group has expanded over the past four years, so has its number of female professionals.
Continue reading ‘LK Group benefits from the female influence’
December 8th, 2008 by admin
LK Accreditation has developed a new and unique way to follow the progress of your Code for Sustainable Homes projects. Its informative graphic interface will show compliance against each category of the Code, and also advise on areas where the application is strong or weak.
Continue reading ‘LK Accreditation launches the code4homes.com’
August 28th, 2008 by admin
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are currently running a series of adverts to raise awareness to the risks associated with Asbestos for construction and maintenance contractors. The campaign is aimed at the tradesmen who have been found to be most at risk from exposure to Asbestos fibres, through the course of their daily lives. The statistics are shocking:
Continue reading ‘HSE Campaign – Asbestos the hidden killer’
August 15th, 2008 by admin
Leyden Kirby Associates formed 10 years ago in April 1998 as a partnership dealing with a small range of environmental issues. By 2001 the decision was made by the partners to expand the company so to be able to address a wider range of services as an Environmental Consultancy. LK Associates then became a Limited company in 2003 and following further rapid success and growth underwent a reorganisation in 2007. The reorganisation allowed the company to define four main service areas all of which now practice under the LK Group umbrella.
Continue reading ‘LK Group invest in post graduate trainning scheme’
June 4th, 2008 by admin
The office in The Corn Exchange, right in the centre of the business district of Liverpool, now represents two of the Group
