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 IOSH urges caution over MPs’ call to remove asbestos from all non-domestic buildings

Monday 25th April 2022
Asbestos
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
Asbestos
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
Asbestos
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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 Employers should review OSH measures after HSE publishes latest ill-health stats

Friday 7th January 2022
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.
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 Flemish government takes risk-based approach to become ‘asbestos-safe’

Tuesday 21st December 2021
Asbestos
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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 Talking shop: lung cancer

Friday 29th October 2021
November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month. Four industry experts outline what they are doing to manage the risk of disease.
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 Court of Appeal upholds decision on financial dependency in mesothelioma case

Thursday 26th August 2021
Asbestos
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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 SCUBA supplier fined £9.3k in schoolboy coma case

Friday 6th August 2021
Hazardous substances
A SCUBA equipment supply company has been fined £9,300 and ordered to pay £11,000 costs after providing a diving school with contaminated air that led to children being taken so ill during a training session that one ended up in an induced coma.
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 Wood working firm and director failed to control asbestos risk

Monday 26th July 2021
Asbestos
A wood working company and its director have both been sentenced after failing to assess and control the risks associated with asbestos materials on the firm’s premises.
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 GB work fatalities up by almost a third

Thursday 15th July 2021
Asbestos
Covid disruption, wide scale furloughing of workers and a 10% reduction in weekly hours worked has been accompanied by a 28% year-on-year increase in the number of work-related fatal accidents, according to Great Britain’s annual fatality statistics.
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