HSE offers Asbestos guidance publication

The Health and Safety Executive is offering a publication covering the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012, the Approved Code of Practice (ACOP), and guidance for anyone who will be working around asbestos.

These are the latest regulations, and the document provides all the information you need to understand what your legal duties are, what you need to do to comply with requirements, and offer minimum standards to keep employees safe.

The 116 pages of guidance is available as a free download or for £15 in printed form. You can pick it up in either form directly from the HSE on their website.

Updated asbestos regulations now in effect

The Control of Asbestos Regulations have been updated by the HSE in order to bring them fully inline with EU law. The changes are limited, but came into effect on April 6 and will impact certain work involving asbestos.

Specifically, the changes require that non-licensed work requires additional notification, medical surveillance, and record keeping in the form of written records.

You can find a full guide to the regulations on the HSE website. A further change to note is that as of April 2015, any workers doing notifiable, but non-licensed work are required to be under the surveillance of a doctor.

Source: Health and safety at work