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 Negligence claim over mesothelioma death dismissed

Thursday 2nd March 2023
Defendant found not to have breached duty of care over asbestos exposure in the 1950s.
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 Logistics giant Eddie Stobart’s £133k fine for exposing port staff to asbestos

Friday 2nd December 2022
Eddie Stobart has been fined £133,000 for a number of failures that resulted in staff at its rail and container freight port in Widnes, Cheshire being exposed to asbestos.
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 Regulator launches asbestos inspection campaign in schools

Monday 5th September 2022
More than three quarters of Britain’s schools contain asbestos – and the HSE is clamping down on them this month.
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 Isle of Man introduces its first asbestos legislation to limit workplace exposure

Thursday 11th August 2022
The Isle of Man government has brought into force the island’s first legal powers to reduce asbestos exposure in the workplace.
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 Government refuses to commit to 40-year deadline to remove all asbestos from non-domestic buildings

Tuesday 26th July 2022
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.
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 IOSH urges caution over MPs’ call to remove asbestos from all non-domestic buildings

Monday 25th April 2022
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.
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 Grantham man handed suspended prison sentence for exposing public to asbestos

Thursday 31st March 2022
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.
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 Interview: Linda Reinstein, co-founder of the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization

Thursday 31st March 2022
Global Asbestos Awareness Week brings together experts such as IOSH alongside victims of asbestos-related diseases, to share, learn and take action
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 Flemish government takes risk-based approach to become ‘asbestos-safe’

Tuesday 21st December 2021
The Flemish government in Belgium has taken a risk-based approach to tackling the region’s huge asbestos legacy with an ambitious plan to become ‘asbestos-safe’ by 2040.
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 Court of Appeal upholds decision on financial dependency in mesothelioma case

Thursday 26th August 2021
In Paramount Shopfitting Co Ltd v Rix, the former employer of the deceased, who had died of mesothelioma, appealed against a decision that the employee’s widow had suffered a loss of financial dependency, and questioned how that loss should be quantified.
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