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Calling all tradesmen, you must ensure your employees are trained in Asbestos Awareness!

Any worker liable to disturb asbestos while performing their normal everyday work is required to be trained. The use of all asbestos containing materials was not banned until 1999. This means any building built or refurbished before the year 2000 could contain asbestos. Every employer must ensure that adequate information, instruction and training is given […]

Read the full article | Published Dec 19, 2011

Armco Asbestos Consultants are now CHAS registered!!!

We are celebrating in the Armco Office today after being awarded CHAS (The Contractors Health and Safety Assessment)! What a year of achievement this has been for us as we were also awarded IS0 9001 accreditation back in August and have recently become an approved sub-contractor for Six Town Housing (Bury Councils arms length management […]

Read the full article | Published Dec 16, 2011

Inquest finds asbestos-link to death of club singer

An inquest ruled that Colin Archer’s death was asbestos –related and was due to his exposure to asbestos fibres during his many years employment as a tarmac welder. Tributes were paid to the well-known club singer from Wolverhampton who had suffered for around ten years with lung problems. The inquest heard that a post mortem […]

Read the full article | Published Dec 13, 2011

Asbestos litigation spreads round the world – is your asbestos health and safety up to date?

Asbestos litigation thrived around industrial cities in the United States after enterprising lawyers managed to turn a case of employer negligence, failing to equip workers with proper respirators, into a multibillion-dollar products-liability bonanza. Due to the United States imposing the most stringent regulations such as OSHA workplace rules and NESHAP regulations to restrict release of […]

Read the full article | Published Dec 09, 2011

Asbestos Awareness Training Session – Friday, 16th December 2011 at 9.00am

Armco Asbestos Consultants have offered first class training sessions held at properties of various companies for many years. Now though, we are also holding monthly Asbestos Awareness and Non-Licensed Works with Asbestos Containing Materials (ACM’s) Training right here in the conference room at Bury Business Centre, Kay Street, Bury, BL9 6BU. The next session is […]

Read the full article | Published Dec 08, 2011