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04/08/2015

Heating Firm In Court After Employees Exposed To Asbestos

A Stockport heating engineering firm has been sentenced after two of its engineers were exposed to asbestos while working at a school in Manchester.

Trafford Magistrates' Court heard Flueclean Installation Services was contracted to replace boilers in the boiler room of the school.

However, two of the company's gas engineers were exposed to asbestos when they took the side panels off boilers which had asbestos insulation on the boiler casing.
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Flueclean pleaded guilty to breaching Regulations 6(1) and 11(1) of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 and was fined £4,000 for each breach with £3,517 in costs.

Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Inspector Kevin Jones said: "Asbestos is the greatest cause of work related deaths in the UK with over 4,000 deaths arising from past exposure. 

"Contractors have a duty to ensure they protect their workers from the risk of exposure to asbestos and must properly plan any work which is likely to disturb it. 

"In this case, Flueclean Installations Services Limited failed to carry out a suitable and sufficient risk assessment which if they had would have clearly identified that the work should have been carried out by a licensed asbestos contractor.

"As a result of this failing, two of their operatives were exposed to asbestos."

(LM)

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