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Failure to use asbestos services firm leads to fine

A Teesside engineering company has been fined after it failed to use an asbestos services contractor to carry out work at one of its sites.

Darchem Engineering was fined £3,000 and ordered to pay more than £5,250 towards the cost of the court case after two workers were potentially exposed to the harmful asbestos fibres.

Following an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the company was charged and pleaded guilty in court.

HSE inspector Andrew Mulligan stated that precautions should have been taken by the bosses at Darchem Engineering.

He added: "A suitable and sufficient assessment should have been carried out and the company should have made sure that their employees had adequate information, instruction and training."

Darchem Engineering is the latest company to be fined for a failure to bring in asbestos services contractors to deal with the removal of the material.

City of Lincoln Council and County Waste were both prosecuted by the HSE after pieces of asbestos debris were left on the floor of a bathroom.

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Posted on 07/06/2010

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