Podcasts are a great way the HSE uses to get important messages out into the community ...
In this episode Stephanie Power talks to Steve Coldrick about HSE's Asbestos - the Hidden Killer campaign.
The trades people think it's granddad's disease. It's a legacy material. When they're drilling into walls for example they may be drilling into asbestos containing materials which are high in asbestos and of course if they're doing it on an almost daily basis they're going to inhale a significant amount and it's those people who are at risk.
And, also on the Podcast, HSE Infoline's Rachel Jones outlines female employees rights and responsibilities at work when they fall pregnant. But first here's the latest health and safety news.
Sugar giant Tate and Lyle has been fined more than a quarter of a million pounds after the death of a contractor working on one of its ships. The company admitted breaches of health and safety law after the worker died when the bulldozer he was riding in was dropped from a crane that was lowering him onto a ship. A sixteen year old schoolgirl for Lincolnshire lost 6 fingers and both her thumbs when she tried to make a plaster cast of hands at school. The governing body of the foundation school was fined £16,500 after pleading guilty to breaching health and safety rules. HSE inspector Jo Anderson said this showed risk assessments in educational establishments must not be viewed as burdensome but paramount to pupil safety. Landlords are being reminded of their responsibilities to tenants after a landlord in Cambridgeshire was jailed for 16 months for breaking gas safety laws and perverting the course of justice. The landlord had failed to adhere to an improvement notice issued by HSE inspectors about gas appliances and provided a false gas safety certificate to the court.
Listen to the HSE Podcast ......... click on this link ....
http://www.hse.gov.uk/podcasts/2009/091030asbestos.mp3
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