Dave Russen from Airborne Environmental Consultants Ltd was an environmental health and safety consultant spoke of understanding the safety of your site, staff and customers is a major priority - dust and the role of the occupational hygienist. Whilst he was speaking I did note of how we [CWU] could get statics on members who have died from long latency occupational ill health caused by an employer when they were a working member?
Gary McKendrick from Omega Asbestos Consulting talked about asbestos management including the current BT concern of surveys which the Branch has raised recently requesting the reconvening of the national Asbestos Forum and a seat on it for the Branch. He advised on building a case using statistics from the HSE Prosecutions page and quoting the Asbestos Regulations 2012, Reg. 4, Sec. 5.