Category Archives: Asbestos Industry News

Plans to dump asbestos at a quarry have been turned down by a planning inspector. Bath and North East Somerset councillors rejected the plans last year to dispose [..]

Last year Plymouth was highlighted as one of the UK’s worst hotspots for  asbestos-related diseases. Read more: http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/Plymouth-lawyer-predicts-asbestos-cancer-death/story-20103035-detail/story.html#ixzz2lCPGPY5K    

Asbestos is the largest killer of tradesmen in the UK with an estimated 20 tradesmen dying each week. The British Lung Foundation has identified 5 steps for tradesmen [..]

The purpose of the guide is to promote good-practice and to provide guidance to retailers regarding their duties under the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 and to contractors [..]

Dairy Crest Limited and a Manchester welding company have been fined for exposing employees to potentially fatal asbestos containing material at an industrial site in Devon. http://www.hse.gov.uk/press/2013/rnn-sw-dairy-crest-rewco.htm?eban=govdel-press-release&cr=16-Sep-2013  

Lady dies of mesothelioma after working as a cleaner at a school in wales.  For the full story please follow the attached link; http://www.campaignseries.co.uk/news/campaign_news/10593148.Blackwood_man_sues_Newport_council_over_asbestos_claim/  

Greater Glasgow & Clyde NHS, failed to properly manage the risks of asbestos in a basement plant room of the Royal Hospital for Sick Children (Yorkhill Hospital) in [..]

Researchers have apparently created a new sensor that can detect asbestos in the air on site, without having to send samples back to a lab for a evaluation! [..]

Burglars who broke into a decontamination caravan in Eastleigh are being urged by police to seek medical help after they were exposed to potentially lethal asbestos. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-22206203