{"id":102140,"date":"2021-11-23T11:49:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T11:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=102140"},"modified":"2021-11-23T11:49:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T11:49:39","slug":"hse-asbestos-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/hse-asbestos-removal\/102140\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction company fined for unsafe asbestos removal at Wiltshire pub"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A construction company has been fined after disturbing asbestos and removing it without adequate precautions at a pub in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hse.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HSE<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Salisbury Magistrates\u2019 Court heard how Robert Angell undertook work to remove asbestos-containing material while renovating the property in September 2018.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found the company was not licensed to carry out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/workers-exposed-to-asbestos\/100312\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asbestos removal<\/a> work and failed to take appropriate measures to prevent the spread of the asbestos waste while.<\/p>\n<p>As a consequence, the work undertaken exposed employees and neighbouring areas to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/manage-asbestos-lockdown\/84973\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">risks from asbestos.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Final Decisions<\/h3>\n<p>Robert Angell was found guilty of breaching Section 16 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hse.gov.uk\/asbestos\/regulations.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012<\/a>, together with section 5 and 8 of the regulations. The company were fined \u00a3300.00 and ordered to pay \u00a38,266.40 in costs.<\/p>\n<h3>\u2018HSE will not hesitate to take appropriate action\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking after the hearing, HSE inspector Ian Whittles said: \u201cThe dangers associated with asbestos, including licensed asbestos, are well-known and a wealth of advice and guidance is freely available from the HSE website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompanies should be aware that HSE will not hesitate to take appropriate enforcement action against those that fall below the required standards.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A construction company has been fined after disturbing asbestos and removing it without adequate precautions at a pub in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, reports HSE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[113,432,564],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-102140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-health-safety-news","7":"tag-asbestos-management","8":"tag-health-safety","9":"tag-hse"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Construction company fined for unsafe asbestos removal at Wiltshire pub<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A construction company has been fined after disturbing asbestos and removing it without adequate precautions at a pub in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, reports HSE\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/hse-asbestos-removal\/102140\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Construction company fined for unsafe asbestos removal at Wiltshire pub\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A construction company has been fined after disturbing asbestos and removing it without adequate precautions at a pub in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, reports HSE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/hse-asbestos-removal\/102140\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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