AUSTRALIA: Everything Australian renovators need to know about asbestos
Asbestos was embraced wholeheartedly by Australians. After all, we found rich deposits in Western Australia in the 1930s and had an industry keen to embrace a...
Hundreds of asbestos-hit Derbyshire schools cost council £400,000
Hundreds of Derbyshire schools containing asbestos has cost a council more than £400,000 in compensation and with outstanding claims still to be dealt with,...
Teachers’ unions tell government to remove asbestos from Norfolk schools.
Teaching unions have today launched a campaign urging the government to defuse the “timebomb” of asbestos in Norfolk’s schools, as it emerged that nearly...
Crowd-funding investment bid for asbestos detector
AN innovative South Devon company has developed what is believed to be the world’s first real-time asbestos warning device. The groundbreaking, portable, hand held, piece of...
Night club owner fined over asbestos exposure
A Bolton night club owner has been sentenced after admitting a failure to carry out a survey for asbestos before starting on the refurbishment...
Fury over ‘dangerous’ asbestos dumped in Nottinghamshire wood
A walker has told of their anger to find asbestos has been left in a Nottinghamshire forest for weeks, despite appealing to authorities to...
MPs to move out of ‘asbestos-riddled’ Parliament in £4bn restoration plan
The true scale of asbestos in the Palace of Westminster is so vast that MPs were in danger of inhaling the lethal substance, according...
US Steel Fined $170K for Multiple Asbestos Violations
Despite the well-known dangers of deadly asbestos, its removal from most job sites and legal actions against companies using the substance, many U.S. workers still...
Asbestos danger probe is launched
A firm is being investigated by Wigan Council over allegations that it left rubble from a fire containing asbestos piled up in a corner of its...
Dartford and Gravesham’s high number of mesothelioma asbestos deaths
More people are dying of an asbestos-related lung disease in Dartford and Gravesham than in most of the country, it has been revealed. Between...
