The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is warning against the use of KN95 facemasks as Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). A safety alert has been issued today, Thursday 11 June 2020, urging all employers and suppliers not to purchase or use KN95 facemasks as PPE. KN95 is a performance rating that is broadly equivalent to the […]

Demolition has begun on a University of Oxford building that had to be closed when asbestos was discovered. More than 1,600 staff and students were forced to move out of the Tinbergen Building on South Parks Road following the discovery in 2017. The university is planning its “largest ever building project” to construct a new life […]

A company has been fined for failing to complete the correct asbestos survey at a domestic construction project. Salisbury Magistrates’ Court heard how, on 18 October 2017, there was a gas explosion at a flat at Market Place, Chippenham where construction work had been carried out to develop the property into flats. Following the gas […]

A council has been accused of “naivety” after granting a contested change to its own planning application. Asbestos has been found at Abermule Business Park where Powys Council wants to build a £4m recycling facility. The authority passed a non-material amendment so the site is not classified as contaminated land and work is allowed to […]

A restaurant owner has been fined after asbestos was disturbed during the conversion of rooms above the restaurant into flats in Essex. Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court heard that during September 2016, above the Marco Polo restaurant on Lower Southend Road, Wickford, asbestos insulation board was removed and broken up which resulted in workers being exposed to […]