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Effects of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007

The effects of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 came into force on 6th April 2008 across the UK. The Act has created a new offence based on existing health and safety regulations for convicting an organisation for a death caused by a gross breach of a duty of care owed by them to the individual.

Expanding Demolition Firm Reinforces Relationship With Asbestos Experts

Rapidly growing local firm Total Reclaims Demolition Limited have given thumbs up to asbestos experts HB Insulations, establishing them as a permanent fixture on their approved contractors list. Total Reclaims have just undergone a total relocation, moving from their city centre base out to Hucknall.

Total Reclaims Demolition - Profile

Nottingham based Total Reclaims Demolition Ltd recently appointed HB Insulations to assist with the demolition and site-clearance project of one of Leicester’s oldest cinemas in order to pave the way for the development of a new multi-purpose city living and leisure complex.

ARCA Quality Assurance Award

In recognition of their excellent site standards, safe working methods and management systems, HB Insulations are proud to receive an ARCA Quality Assurance Award.

Specialists Make Fast Work Of Asbestos

HB Insulations now offers an express service, designed to keep delays in dealing with an asbestos problem to a minimum, with experts from the team able to assess the situation and provide a quote for removal within 24 hours of first contact.

Asbestos Experts Beat The Clock On Homes Project

Nottingham-based asbestos removal specialist HB Insulations is making fast work of its part in a scheme to create modern, comfortable homes for hundreds of Derbyshire families

HB Insulations Helps to Action Demolition

Epperstone police station has been demolished by local experts HB Insulations and Action Demolition.

The extensive building, comprising of more than forty rooms, was previously utilised as a training ground for the local police force but had been unused for over a year due to a corporate reorganisation.As such, when Action Demolition of Newark-on-Trent was commissioned to carry out the complete demolition and site clearance of the building, which also entailed full asbestos checks and removal, they called upon the help of Nottingham based leading asbestos removal company HB Insulations.

Landfill Tax Rises

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced that the standard rate of landfill tax will rise by £3.00 per tonne to £24.00 per tonne effective from 1st April 2007, and took powers to effect the increase in the rate under The Provisional Collection Of Taxes Act 1968. This will result in another large increase in disposal costs that must be passed on to all producers of waste.

Contractors fined for failing to protect person

The duty of contractors to protect persons not in their employment from risks to their health and safety has been highlighted once more by a prosecution brought by the HSE against two firms and a company director.

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HSE sends reminder to asbestos industry

The HSE has issued a reminder to the asbestos licensed industry that the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006 were further strengthened on 6 April 2007.

From this date there has been an added requirement that anyone who certifies premises to be safe to be re-occupied following asbestos work must be accredited.

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Asbestos threat at schools

Thousands of pupils and teachers will be at risk of exposure to deadly asbestos fumes for years. Up to 13,000 state schools still contain asbestos, according to figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

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Local Firms Pave The Way For New Leicester City Development

Two leading Nottingham based firms have joined forces in order to complete the demolition and site-clearance project of one of Leicester’s oldest cinemas in order to pave the way for the development of a new multi-purpose city living and leisure complex.

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Construction Industry Scheme Bulletin 2007

Under the new scheme the Revenue will be placing great emphasis on automatic penalties for late returns, failure to provide records or payslips etc but also a monthly emphasis on the employed/self-employed position of the subcontractors. If contractors get this wrong, once again penalties may apply. This bulletin focuses on the main areas requiring consideration over the coming months. There are some fundamental issues which need to be considered prior to April 2007.

Asbestos May Claim 60,000

Construction News - 22 February, 2007 More than 60,000 builders exposed to asbestos in the 1960s and 70s could die from diseases associated with the deadly dust. Professor Julian Peto - Cancer research UK chairman of epidemiology at the London School of Hygeine and Tropical Medicine - said the exposure of those who worked in the construction industry created an epidemic of mesothelioma, which will peak in less than 10 years.

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Council Accused Over Plan to Cut Asbestos Staff

The Herald, Glasgow – 20 February, 2007 UNION officials yesterday accused a council of putting the safety of the public and staff at risk with a proposal to halve the staff of an asbestos survey unit. Glasgow City Council plans a cut of £200,000 from the budget of the unit - a group of experienced environmental protection services surveyors charged with protecting the health of anyone visiting council premises from asbestos fibres.

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Employers Must Do More to Protect Staff

TUC - 26 February, 2007

In advance of Mesothelioma Action Day tomorrow (Tuesday), the TUC is calling on employers to protect workers against the terrible disease which kills over 2,000 people every year. Although the supply and use of asbestos has now been banned in the UK, it is still found in an estimated one and a half million workplaces. Many employers do not even know it is are there. As a result, maintenance and other workers can be exposed if they work in areas where asbestos is present, often ripping out or drilling into material containing asbestos and breathing in the potentially fatal fibres.

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Pupils Hit by Asbestos Alert

Knaresborough Today – 02 February, 2007

PUPILS at Harrogate High School required decontamination treatment this week after being showered by asbestos fibres. A roof tile at the school fell into a corridor, leaving six students, one staff member and an ambulance service crew member needing medical attention.

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Hundreds of Thousands More Will Die

Hazards Magazine – 27 February, 2007

Hundreds of thousands of people in the UK could die from asbestos-related cancer, latest estimates suggest. Just one deadly asbestos cancer, mesothelioma is now killing 2,000 people each year in the in the UK - one death every five hours. But for every mesothelioma death at least one person - and probably many more - will die from asbestos related lung cancer.

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Silent Killer May Be in Our Houses

Belper Today – February, 2007

MESOTHELIOMA kills almost 2,000 people in the UK every year and yet only seven per cent of people in the Midlands actually know what it is. This week the second annual Action Mesothelioma Day took place to raise awareness of this devastating disease which is a form of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos.

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SafeStrip

From the early 1980’s, asbestos removal using large quantities of water, applied at high pressure, producing large quantities of slurry, was discouraged by the HSE.

Unfortunately at this time no one seems to have considered or questioned the efficiency of the positive pressure respirators (approved by the HSE for asbestos removal work). Instead reliance was put on the manufacturers laboratory produced figures.