News Snippets

Construction News reported on 24th May 2007, that Wye Valley Demolition was fined £6,000 at Hereford Magistrate's Court, for releasing asbestos during demolition work at a former grain store in Bodenham in 2004.

Asbestos Cement sheets were not removed under controlled conditions as they should have been, but were thron to the ground and spread across the site.

HSE? HSC?
It also reported that plans to merge the Health and Safety Commission, and the Health Safety Executive had reached an advanced stage of consultation. Such a move would make perfect sense to those of us who never understood the need for two separate bodies in the first place.