These free publications focus on: asbestos insulating board, asbestos cement, other asbestos containing material and the equipment and methods used regarding asbestos related tasks.
Asbestos Essentials
Category: Asbestos
Asbestos Essentials guidance now available
Monday, September 4, 2006
Asbestos - ‘Don’t take the gamble’ Campaign
Friday, September 1, 2006
HSE will launch a new communications campaign highlighting the risks to maintenance workers from exposure to asbestos in early September 2006.
Read the campaign brief
Construction News: ‘Letters’ - Steve Coldrick, Director, Disease Reduction Programme responds
Monday, August 21, 2006
Steve Coldrick, Director of HSE’s Disease Reduction Programme, responds to a letter in ‘Construction News’, dated 10th August 2006.
Read the response
6 August 2006: The Sunday Telegraph: ‘Great asbestos scam faces a revenue loss of £½bn a year’ - Geoffrey Podger, HSE’s Chief Executive, responds
Thursday, August 10, 2006
HSE Chief Executive Geoffrey Podger responds to an article in the Sunday Telegraph which discusses changes to the law concerning asbestos exposure limits.
Read the response
Press Release C015:06 - HSC approves revised asbestos regulations
Friday, July 28, 2006
The Health and Safety Commission (HSC) has today informed Ministers that it will recommend approval of revised asbestos regulations.
See Press release
LAC 5/23 (revised) - Inspection intervention on worker protection: asbestos duty to manage
Thursday, July 27, 2006
This Local Authority Circular (LAC) informs LA health and safety enforcement officers on the application of the Duty to Manage Asbestos in non-domestic premises (Regulation 4 of the Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations 2002). This LAC should be read in conjunction with the Asbestos Inspection pack 2006/7 which is attached at Appendix 2 & [...]
BOHS - Autumn Hot Topics Meeting, 4th October 06
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Full day’s programme of hot topics in occupational hygiene where Professor Julian Peto will be headlining on mesothelioma risks in relation to asbestos exposure. Other sessions will cover occupational exposure to avian flu, silica, metalworking fluids and an update on recent changes to asbestos legislation.
Further information about this event
HSL/2006/50 - Removal of chrysotile containing textured decorative finishes: additional work report 1 – Site R
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
HSE is currently consulting as to whether textured decorative coatings (TDC) should continue to be regarded as one of a special category of licensed materials, which pose a much higher risk to workers than other asbestos containing materials (ACMs). To assist in this process HSE has asked HSL’s Inorganics and Fibres Section (IFS) to investigate [...]
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