Sustainability – Asbestech partners with Brighter Compass
Monday, 18 July 2022
Here at Asbestech, we are committed to reducing our carbon footprint and our impact on the living environment around us. Along with the integration of fully electric vehicles in our fleet and using approved suppliers who provide products from a sustainable source, we have been thinking of other ways in which to enhance our sustainability
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ARCA Training & Technical Committee
Friday, 10 June 2022
Asbestech’s Operations Director, Phil Neville, has recently accepted an invitation to join the ARCA Training and Technical Committee. This group, who work as a sub-committee to the ARCA General Council, meet regularly to review and guide the training provision by ARCA, including ensuring that the training facilities are suitable. “It’s very satisfying to be able
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Asbestech and Mental Health Awareness Week
Friday, 13 May 2022
This year National Mental Health Awareness Week is organised between 10-16 May. Mental health is still a taboo topic for many, nowhere more than in the Construction Industry. Construction has among the greatest suicide rate of any industry. This, combined with the physical and mental exhaustion of staff continuing to work throughout the pandemic, means
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Personal Safety & Security Improvements
Thursday, 21 April 2022
At Asbestech we are always looking to improve what we do and how we do it, with the first thought in our minds being how to keep everyone safer. We didn’t just look at our own site team’s safety, but also other parties who may come to site to carry out different roles. Discussions with
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Defibrillator Installation at Head Office
Thursday, 20 January 2022
A life-saving defibrillator is now available at Asbestech’s Head Office and Warehouse in Hatfield. The portable defibrillator can be used by anyone to help restart the heart when someone suffers a cardiac arrest. Although no training is needed to use the defibrillator, staff at Asbestech have also recently undertaken first aid training which included the
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Asbestech Achieve a Win Double!
Monday, 01 November 2021
At the recent Annual General Meeting of ARCA, which is the trade body for the asbestos removal and remediation industry, Asbestech were delighted to be awarded not only the ARCA Gold Training Award in recognition of achieving a high standard of accomplishment but also the prestigious National Training Standard Award for 2021. This latter award
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Asbestech Ltd sponsor the Noah’s Ark Golf Day 2021
Tuesday, 19 October 2021
The team at Asbestech were delighted to be a main ‘’Co-sponsor’’ of this year’s Noah’s Ark Golf Day held at The Grove in Hertfordshire; a very special venue which is home to the England football team when playing at Wembley. Fortunately, the weather held out with even some occasional sun bursts which made for a special
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Asbestech Ltd sponsor the MLS Football Academy Girls
Friday, 02 July 2021
Asbestech have just come to the end of their first season of sponsoring the Year 5 Foxes and Year 6 Wolves MLS girls football teams in Barnet and what a season it’s been as both teams won their respective leagues in their first year of trying! The teams were set up just before COVID hit
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Morgan Sindall Regional Award Winner
Friday, 26 March 2021
Congratulations to our Gary McComb (Technical Director), Shane Wright (Senior Site Manager) and our team that worked on the Reuben College Project at the University of Oxford after they picked up the ‘winners award’ for ‘Best Health & Safety & Environmental Performance 2020’. The £750,000 First Phase of the overall project, in the Grade II
Asbestech signs up to the Premiums 4 Good Initiative
Thursday, 04 March 2021
As Asbestech operate in a tightly regulated market place, the insurance premiums that come with that are a significant part of our operating costs. Asbestech; with our underwriters QBE have signed up to an initiative called Premiums4Good where 25% of the premium paid is directly invested into projects which deliver benefit to communities and the
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