Global Asbestos Awareness Week 2023, organised by the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organisation, takes place this week (1-7 April),…
Millennials, gen Z workers and other younger people who work as plumbers, electricians, and in other trades need to take the risk of…
The British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS), a leading scientific charity and the Chartered Society for Worker Health Protection,…
The death toll from asbestos exposure has reached crisis levels in Britain, the Guardian reports, as people pay the price for “criminal…
The TUC is calling for new legislation requiring removal of all asbestos from public buildings, rather than the current policy of…
A coalition of trade unions, representing more than four million UK workers, are calling for the removal of asbestos from all public…
Ministers have ordered schools to immediately shut buildings made with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) until safety work…
According to documents released following a lengthy court battle, Cape Intermediate Holdings Limited – one of the UK’s biggest…
A total of 142 workers were killed at work in Great Britain in 2020/21, according to data released by the HSE; an increase of 29 from…
A makeup consultant who contracted mesothelioma after being exposed to dust while the Boots store she worked in was undergoing…
MPs have debated the issue of asbestos in the workplace just days after an inquest found that former MP Alice Mahon died of an…
The annual statistics on work-related ill health and workplace injuries for 2022/23 show 12,000 people die each year from lung diseases…