Modern data centres can use around 100 million megawatt hours of electricity a year, orders of magnitude more than a typical office building and more than enough to introduce significant danger into the workplace. As recently as 2015, Martin Walton was electrocuted and killed working on a data centre in Middlesex when one of two FM companies involved issued a … Read More
Post Implementation Review of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012
Published by the HSE in March 2017, the Post Implementation Review (PIR) of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 (CAR 2012) is available for public review here. It’s a 90 page report aimed at 1) determining if CAR 2012 is meeting its objectives; 2) whether those objectives are still valid; 3) whether the regulations are still required and, if so, … Read More
5 Things You Should Know About Asbestos and How To Prevent Exposure
This is Global Asbestos Awareness Week and I wanted to capture 5 things you should know (but might not know) about asbestos and then walk through how we use e-permits to enable facilities work to occur while preventing exposure to asbestos. First, the 5 things you should know: Over 5,000 people die each year in Great Britain from asbestos related … Read More
