Occupational cancer

More than three quarters of Britain’s schools contain asbestos – and the HSE is clamping down on them this month.

The WHO International Agency for Research on Cancer’s recent Biennial report 2020-2021 reveals some interesting data on global incidence of the disease...

The Isle of Man government has brought into force the island’s first legal powers to reduce asbestos exposure in the workplace.

The UK government has rejected the Work and Pensions Committee’s key recommendation that policy makers should commit to removing all asbestos from public buildings within 40 years.

World No Tobacco Day saw thousands of organisations promote smoke-free work and its many benefits across the globe.

Join 3M’s respiratory protection specialist, George Elliott, as he reinforces the deadly risks of respirable crystalline silica before providing guidance on the hierarchy of controls, prevention and how to combat and control workplace exposures.

IOSH has urged caution after a parliamentary committee recommended that the government set a 40-year deadline to remove asbestos from all public and commercial buildings.

A Grantham, Lincolnshire trader who had marketed himself as a registered asbestos-removal specialist has received a suspended prison sentence after exposing members of the public to the carcinogenic material.

Global Asbestos Awareness Week brings together experts such as IOSH alongside victims of asbestos-related diseases, to share, learn and take action

IOSH has urged employers to continually review their OSH measures and ensure they are ‘proportionate and fit for purpose’ after Great Britain's Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) annual figures for work-related ill-health, injury and enforcement highlighted the Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on British workers’ health.