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The European Parliament has filed a report calling for asbestos to be removed from all European public buildings by 2028. According to the official figures from the Health and Safety Executive, between 2002 and 2010 a total of 128 school teachers dies from mesothelioma. However, the campaign group Asbestos in Schools says that this figure […]

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Police are desperately urging thieves who broke into a decontamination caravan unit in Eastleigh to seek medical attention after they were exposed to potentially lethal asbestos. The thieves managed to force open the doors of the locked caravan and opened sealed bags. The bags contained blue, brown and white asbestos contaminated clothing. Labourers had been […]

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Belfast Health Trust have been fined £10,000, plus costs of £1,750, over health and safety breaches, involving asbestos, at the City hospital. The trust had previously pleaded guilty to three breaches of regulations. It followed an incident on 14th January 2011, when two construction workers were potentially exposed to asbestos when repairing a floor. An […]

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A retired painter whose wife died from cancer caused by cleaning overalls for 20 years is backing a campaign for more awareness of asbestos. Eric Ward’s wife Valerie dies at the age of 78 after being diagnosed with asbestos related mesothelioma. Mr Ward, 85, had worked at Aberthaw power station in the Vale of Glamorgan […]

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An industrial property owner has been prosecuted for exposing untrained workers to dangerous asbestos fibres following a series of failings at a building in Newport, Wales. In a prosecution brought by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Abergavenny Magistrates’ Court heard today (21 February) that Mr Nasimul Karbani, from Middlesex, employed two workers and then […]

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