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Asbestos News
What the analyst saw at Christmas
Our lab boffins have been getting in the Christmas spirit over the break they have collected a few festive pics from the lab. All these pics are of asbestos fibres as viewed under polarised light microscopy. A belated merry Christmas from all the staff and management at AMS.
HSE to launch month long intensive inspection in Feb 2012…..are you ready?
The HSE will be launching their month long intensive inspection initiatve in February 2012 and aim to inspect refurbishment sites across Great Britain to tackle poor safety standards. The inspections will take into account general health and safety of refurbishment on sites across the country, as part of this they will be looking at the asbestos information that has [...]
New features on our award winning asbestos management software
Our current clients will be aware of our asbestos management software ASK, the application makes life a good deal easier for the asbestos duty holder. In 2011 we won the northumberland business technology award for ASK….well its got even better now. We have now added a complete visual representation of the risk from the asbestos [...]
AMS awarded ISOS Housing 4 year framework asbestos management
AMS have been awarded the ISOS housing 4 year framework asbestos management contract. AMS will be supplying Asbestos Surveys both Management and Refurbishment and Demolition, Asbestos Air Monitoring, Asbestos Awareness Training and Consultancy to ISOS housing. ISOS housing has 12000 properties located in Northern England. AMS Managing Director Stewart McNicholl ” We are really pleased to have been awarded [...]
AMS Pledge 480hrs to HSE Asbestos Awareness Training Campaign
AMS is proud to announce its involvement in the current HSE asbestos awareness training campaign to pledge 4000hrs training across the month of October. Every year 4000 people in the UK die from Asbestos related diseases, the HSE working in partnership with the IATP and UKATA have so far pledged over 4000hours for this campaign to increase people awareness of [...]
New article warns Asians about striking increase in asbestos-related deaths
Asia now accounts for 64 percent of asbestos use worldwide An alarming new article in Respirology issues a serious warning of massive rises in deaths from asbestos-related lung diseases in Asia. Dr Ken Takahashi, Acting Director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Occupational Health, and his team put together important data on asbestos use in 47 Asian [...]