Cumberland Council has warned it may need up to £500,000 in contingency funding to address asbestos management failings identified during Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspections of eight council-owned buildings. […]
NORAC has published a new Technical Guidance Series document (NTGS/0xxx Rev 1.2) providing an industry overview of an an proposed agreed methodology for asbestos air monitoring on brownfield remediation sites — […]
Join NORAC for this FREE webinar as we sit down with Asbestos Surveyors Guild founder Paul Beaumont to explore the vision behind the organisation, what membership means in practice, and […]
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has confirmed that Great Britain’s asbestos control limit (CL) will remain unchanged at 0.1 fibres per millilitre (f/ml), measured as a 4-hour time-weighted average […]
“Bulk asbestos laboratory performance in the AIMS PT scheme is very good. However, when labs analyse the same samples “blind”, the results are very different!” NORAC are pleased to host […]
Homeware retailer Dunelm has issued an urgent recall of 35 novelty doorstop products after it emerged that the sand used as filling inside the items may be contaminated with asbestos. […]
An asbestos contractor who falsified laboratory test reports to deceive homeowners into paying for unnecessary removal work has been handed a suspended prison sentence at Teesside Crown Court. Andrew Curtis […]
Two companies and site manager sentenced over illegal asbestos clearance at Cannock demolition site Two Midlands businesses and a site manager have been sentenced following a large-scale asbestos disturbance and […]
Parents are being urged to warn their children about the dangers of trespassing on the site of the former Turner Brothers factory in Rochdale – once the world’s largest asbestos […]
Smyths Toys has issued an urgent product safety recall for a range of children’s dig kit toys following testing that revealed trace levels of asbestos in the material contained within […]
Join us for the largest NORAC Conference yet, followed by the NORAC Awards, a prestigious evening awards ceremony and 3 course meal. This is your chance to engage with industry […]
NORAC have teamed up with the Joint Industry Working Group on Asbestos in Soil and Construction & Demolition Materials to release a new Technical Guidance Document for asbestos in soils. […]