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Welcome to our March 2010 newsletter from Environmental Essentials. This Month Our Mission It is our intention to provide accurate workplace solutions and impartial advice whilst maintaining an uncompromising level of quality and Commitment that is second to none UKAS Accredited Surveys All our surveying services are fully UKAS accredited and are carried out to the highest standards, providing you with a cost-effective and efficient service. Find Out More Asbestos Removal Our experienced consultants provide a comprehensive management service Find Out More Free Asbestos Seminars During 2008 and 2009 EE have delivered FREE monthly seminars for Duty Holders and contracting organizations throughout the UK. Find Out More Other Training IOSHH Working Safely (1 day course) |
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Joining us this month is Michelle Streeton (formally Morran) who has 5 years experience in the asbestos industry having worked for BES and Life Environmental previously and Michelle has come highly recommended.
EMERGENCY FIRST AIDER IN THE WORKPLACE – 6 hr course Friday 23rd April 2010 We can offer places at this open course at a discounted cost of £60pp + VAT (St John’s Ambulance normal course cost £115) We are pleased to be able to call on the expertise of a HSE accredited trainer to deliver this course. Phil Barnes is a retired Police Officer who completed his Cert.Ed in 2004 and who also delivers for us Manual Handling, Conflict Management and the full First Aid at Work certificate. Take advantage of this discounted and fully certificated course. Places are limited to 12 so please call Liz Adams on 0845 456 9953 or e mail at ladams@environmentalessentials.co.uk to request a Booking Form.
Asbestos Seminars - HSG 264 Asbestos The Surveyors Guide
What can you expect from this seminar?This seminar is intended to provide a general overview of the requirements of this guidance, with particular reference to the duties placed on the Client. Since 2001, the HSE document MDHS 100 has been the principal source of guidance for the conduct of asbestos surveys. This document laid out rules relating to how surveys should be conducted and materials assessed, together with requirements for reporting. However there was little information on how surveys should be planned or how the information gathered should be used for managing asbestos, as the document pre-dated the "Duty to Manage" requirements. As a result, survey reports were often found to be insufficient for effective asbestos management. This was most commonly due to a lack of access to all areas of the property, the over use of limitations and caveats and a lack of planning and coordination between client and surveyor. This new document contains a greater emphasis on survey planning, and interpretation of results, and will require clear co-operation between client and surveyor. In addition to this, there is a new system of surveying to replace the existing three types of survey. EEL’s Seminars cost just £30.00 per person and will take place on a monthly basis at different locations throughout the UK. Those planned for the next quarter include:
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Who should attend?These seminars are a must for duty holders & anyone who is responsible for asbestos management within their portfolio. *Places will be limited to 50 and will be on a first come first served basis! To reserve your space contact Rosie on 0845 4569953 or email rgreer@environmentalessentials.co.uk.
Diary of Events Open Asbestos Awareness Training Dates: 4 th March, 28 st April, 27th May and 21st June 2010 Who should attend? ‘All employees whose work could anticipate exposure to asbestos' (Reg.10 - Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006), this course is aimed at all delegates from company directors, managers and supervisors to tradesmen, engineers and contractors. Places are charged at just £75.00 + vat per person and includes refreshments.
Dates: 12th and 13th April 2010 Designed for those with ‘duty to manage' responsibilities for asbestos management within the workplace and specifically for duty-holders under Regulation 4 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006. The course provides comprehensive information on how to assess whether premises contain asbestos, how to assess the risks from asbestos and how to manage those risks. Places are charged at £295.00 + Vat per person and includes refreshments and lunch. Further dates are scheduled
Open Non Licence Working Training (category 2 training) Dates: 31st March, 14th April, 6th May and 24th June 2010 Who should attend? Anyone who may be required to undertake minor work on ACMs during their working day. Aimed at personnel such as roofing contractors, demolition workers and general maintenance staff. Places are charged at just £150.00 + vat per person and includes refreshments. For a full list of future course dates please click here. For a bespoke quote for your company for any training please contact Liz on 0845 4569953 or email ladams@environmentalessentials.co.uk
News : Landlord fined for asbestos exposure (January 29, 2010) A Bristol-based company has been fined for putting its workers at risk of asbestos-related diseases while working on a property in the city. Frank Bruce and Company Ltd, of Bristol pleaded guilty at Bristol Magistrates in relation to refurbishment work at Lawrence Hill Industrial Park in the city during February and March 2009. The court heard HSE inspectors visited industrial units where the defendant had organised refurbishment work involving the removal of a large quantity of asbestos insulation board without taking statutory safety precautions. This led to exposure of the workers to the asbestos and also the contamination of the units being renovated. The court heard the company plead guilty to breaches under Regulation 14 of the Construction (Design and Management) [CDM] Regulations 2007 by failing to appoint a CDM-coordinator or principal contractor for notifiable construction work and Regulation 4 (10) of the Control of Asbestos Regulations by failing to review or implement a plan to manage materials containing asbestos. Frank Bruce and Co was fined £18,000 on 27th January 2010 for breaching the regulations and ordered to pay £6,679 costs. Speaking after the hearing, HSEP Inspector Sue Adsett said: "The decision not to have large quantities of asbestos insulation board removed by licensed contractors before the general refurbishment work began, put the workers at risk and contaminated the site. "The work was stopped and the defendant paid to make the site safe, but this doesn't change the fact that seven construction workers were exposed to asbestos, which we know can cause fatal diseases. "Landlords and property developers need to be very wary of organising construction work themselves if they have not got appropriate experience of managing health and safety in building projects." Around 500,000 buildings built before 2000 could contain asbestos, according to HSE estimates. If managed properly and kept in good condition, asbestos need not pose safety concerns. Landlords need to arrange for Type 3 surveys to be done before refurbishment or demolition and pass this information on to builders before asking them to start work. Some asbestos products - such as Asbestos Insulation Boards or Asbestos Insulation - can only be removed by specially licensed contractors.
Potter's death linked to work with asbestos (February 19, 2010) A FORMER pottery worked died weeks after being diagnosed with asbestos-related cancer. Valerie Smallman developed mesothelioma after years of exposure to asbestos in pottery factories in Stoke-on-Trent. An inquest into the 65-year-old's death held at North Staffordshire Coroner's Court yesterday heard she died at her home in Broadmine Street, Fenton, on December 14 last year. Mrs Smallman had worked as a tower, someone who removes the edges from ceramic ware at the biscuit firing stage, in the pottery industry since leaving school at 15. She worked at a number of factories including Beswick Pottery, Ridgway Potteries, British Anchor, James Kent, Paragon China, Royal Grafton China, John Tams and Duchess China. The mother-of-three retired in 2004, and started experiencing breathlessness in June last year. In a statement her husband Eddie Smallman said: "She began getting out of breath regularly. "Walking any distance made her breathless” "She went to the doctor and after tests was diagnosed with mesothelioma due to her employment in the pottery industry" "She had to take morphine for the pain." The inquest heard Mrs Smallman had been due to go into the Douglas Macmillan Hospice in Blurton on December 14. Mr Smallman had called out a nurse to help him get his wife ready, but while the nurse was there, in the early hours of December 14, Mrs Smallman began to have difficulty breathing. Mr Smallman said: "The nurse said she wasn't breathing very well, and she was going to ring the Douglas Macmillan doctor to come out straight away. "Then she stopped breathing and the paramedics came out. They confirmed she had died." A post-mortem examination revealed the pleural membranes of Mrs Smallman's lungs were badly affected by mesothelioma. The cause of death was noted as pleural mesothelioma. Anthony Curzon, deputy coroner for North Staffordshire, recorded that Mrs Smallman died as a result of an industrial disease. He added: "Mrs Smallman was diagnosed with mesothelioma late in 2009. "She had worked in the pottery industry for the bulk of her adult life and was exposed to asbestos fibres in many of the places she worked."
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