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Education Secretary Michael Gove today set out a complete overhaul of capital investment in England’s schools.
Bringing an end to Building Schools for the Future (BSF), he said ‘In the light of the public finances, it would have been irresponsible to carry on regardless with an inflexible, and needlessly complex programme.’
The key elements [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 £1.2 million campaign to increase awareness about asbestos among tradespeople (see separate story).
The Ashton-under-Lyne based company pleaded [...]
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 – now MPs have a chance to do the decent thing.
By Emily Dugan: Source
They called it “the Barking cough”. First it began like any [...]
A waste-management business has been fined £40,000 for continually poorhandling of asbestos, which put its staff and the environment at risk of harm.
Biffa Waste Services Limited was sentenced on 14 October under the s33(6) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, in relation to two charges of breaching its waste-management licence.
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 [...]
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