Health & Safety Newsletter
January 29, 2009

This Week´s Featured News Stories
GAO designates toxic chemicals as new high-risk area, say Bergeson & Campbell
On January 22, 2008, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report entitled High-Risk Series: An Update, which is intended “to bring focus to specific areas needing added attention.” The GAO began preparing the biennial reports on high-risk areas in 1990. The GAO identifies areas as high risk due to their greater vulnerabilities to fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement, or due to their need for broad-based transformation to address major economy, efficiency, or effectiveness challenges. The report provides an update on the status of high-risk areas listed in 2007 and identifies ...
HSE warns exposing untrained workers to asbestos will be penalised
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is warning that firms exposing workers to asbestos would be penalised. It added that electrical contracting companies and other building and refurbishment trades must provide suitable asbestos awareness training to employees or face prosecution. This move follows the HSE prosecution of Scriven Electrical Contractors Ltd of Cornwallis Road, West Bromwich for failing to ensure that adequate information, instruction and training was given to its employees. The court heard that an electrician employed by Scriven installed three heat detectors and associated cabling ...
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