asbestos control News
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Environmental Protection Agency Approves California Shipyard’s Asbestos Controls
The laboratories at LA Testing provide asbestos testing solutions to protect people, the environment and property from the dangers of asbestos exposure. Los Alamitos, CA, July 12th, 2010 A recent investigation by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of a redevelopment project at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in Bayview, California found that current practices are now adequately ...
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Cedrec’s Gareth Billinghurst says companies are still struggling to deal with the requirements to carry out asbestos risk assessments
As this year’s Global Asbestos Awareness Week (April 1 – 7th) is marked by BOHS, the Chartered Society for Worker Health Protection, specialists in environmental and H&S legislation Cedrec says the risks associated with asbestos are still not given the time and severity that they warrant and facilities throughout the UK are still not following their legal responsibilities. The ...
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Prosecution launched against a high street retailer and four contractors for exposing people to asbestos-containing materials during refurbishment
At Bournemouth Magistrates’ court today the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) initiated criminal proceedings against Marks and Spencer plc and four other companies for asbestos-related breaches during refurbishment work at shops in Reading, Bournemouth and Plymouth, where it is alleged that the companies failed to ensure that staff and members of the public were not exposed to risks from ...
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EPA enforcement actions in Arkansas cut pollution, restore environment
Dallas, Texas – November 15, 2006) More than $4.9 billion in environmental improvements were secured and more than 890 million pounds of pollution were reduced as a result of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency enforcement activities this year. A total of $1.3 billion in environmental improvements and 181 million pounds in pollution reductions were realized across the region ...
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EPA study looks for better asbestos removal technology
Dallas, Texas – The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced the release of a draft report that evaluates an alternative demolition process for buildings containing asbestos. Scientists and engineers from EPA’s National Risk Management Research Laboratory and the Dallas regional office compared the current process of demolishing a dilapidated, asbestos-containing structure with a new ...
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Rhode Island Airport Corp. and contractors fined for reporting violations during TF green expansion (RI)
Rhode Island Airport Corporation and its demolition contractors, O.R. Colan Associates of Florida, LLC and The Jones Payne Group, Inc., of Mass., have agreed to pay $25,000 for alleged violations of the federal Clean Air Act and National Emission Standard for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Asbestos. Jones Payne will pay the full amount of the $25,000 penalty for its failure to provide EPA with ...
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Reactor pioneers bring back the knowledge
A group of old timers have returned to Dounreay to retrace their steps after working on the construction of the prototype fast reactor over 40 years ago. JGC Engineering & Technical Services Ltd electricians who helped build the plant in the late 60’s were brought back to help identify redundant cabling now being ripped out of the reactor. A staggering fifteen miles of intricate tangled ...
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Working safely with asbestos – update
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has updated its Approved Code of Practice and guidance on working safely with asbestos. The change involves combining two Approved Codes of Practice (ACOP) into one. As such, ACOP L127 (The management of asbestos in non-domestic premises) and ACOP L143 (Work with materials containing asbestos) are now both consolidated into the revised ACOP L143 (Managing ...
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UK warns failure to meet responsibilities when dealing with asbestos will be penalised
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reminds the building trade that failure to carry out checks and surveys for asbestos in property refurbishments is unacceptable. This warning follows the successful prosecution by HSE of a building surveyor who failed to meet his legal duties and carry out an asbestos survey during a refurbishment at 92-95 Livery Street, Birmingham. Raymond Joseph Boyle of ...
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HSE warns companies to follow correct asbestos handling procedures
The Health and Safety Executive has warned firms to properly assess risks when working with asbestos and ensure, if necessary, only licensed contractors are used. The call follows the prosecution on 4 February 2009 of Westpoint Schoolcare Ltd for breaching Regulations 5, 8(1) and 11 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006. The firm from Gorton, Manchester was fined £1,000 and ordered to pay ...
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Albany, NY, asbestos removal company cited by US Labor Department`s OSHA for 1 willful and 8 serious violations of safety standards
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Lorice Enterprises LLC of Albany, N.Y., for nine alleged violations of safety and health standards, including one willful violation, while removing asbestos containing roofing material at a site located on Kent Street. The asbestos remediation company faces a total $83,300 in proposed fines. "Lorice ...
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Companies struggling with asbestos risk assessments, says legislation expert
The risks associated with asbestos are still not given the time and severity that they warrant and facilities throughout the UK are still not following their legal responsibilities, according to specialists in environmental and H&S legislation Cedrec. The new style of asbestos controls, originally set under the Control of Asbestos Regulations SI 2006/2739, and tightened further through the ...
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EPA oversees maintenance at Ambler Asbestos Superfund site
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is overseeing stream bank maintenance work this week along the Wissahickon Creek at the former Ambler Asbestos Superfund Site. The maintenance work is needed to help control erosion around a concrete structure called a revetment that is designed to reduce erosion by absorbing the impact of water flowing in the creek. The work is being done by a private ...
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EPA- Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Asbestos Abatement Worker Protection (Renewal)
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), Asbestos Abatement Worker Protection (EPA ICR Number 1246.14, OMB Control Number 2070-0072) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through December 31, ...
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Rochester, NY asbestos abatement contractor sentenced to six years in prison for environmental crimes and making false statements
After a two day hearing in federal court in Rochester, U.S. District Court Judge Charles J. Siragusa sentenced Keith Gordon-Smith, 54, of Rochester, N.Y., to six years in prison late yesterday for knowingly violating the Clean Air Act and making false statements to a federal inspector. Gordon-Smith was also sentenced to serve a three year term of supervised release to follow his prison term and ...
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UK Health & Safety Executive calls for improvements from asbestos removal industry
Asbestos-related disease accounts for over 3,500 deaths each year, creating what is the UK’s biggest single cause of work-related deaths. Nationally, approximately 600 of these deaths each year arise from work with asbestos in the construction industry and allied trades. To help tackle this problem, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has called its eleventh special leadership summit to ...
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Monitoring the asbestos threat in UK schools
In autumn 2006, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) identified that there was the potential for asbestos fibres to be released in particular circumstances in CLASP (system built) schools. HSE therefore,took immediate and positive action, advising all relevant dutyholders to visually check their CLASP (system built) school buildings and, where necessary, to seal gaps in column casings using ...
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HSE prosecutes English companies following multiple breaches of asbestos safety laws
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a stark warning about managing the risks from asbestos, following its prosecution of a two companies in Essex, after workers in their employment were exposed to asbestos containing materials. R Maskell Ltd of Loughton, Essex was fined £150,000 with costs of £30,000 at Ipswich Crown Court today (6th August). The company pleaded guilty to Section ...
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An Introduction to Benzene Exposure Legislation - FREE Guide
ION Science has published a new FREE to download Guide; An Introduction to Benzene Exposure Legislation. The Guide is the second in our series, to inform you that benzene exposure limits are becoming tighter and the need to understand how the changes affect your safety and your business. In our Guide you will find out about: Occupational exposure limits for benzene Overview of existing ...
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