New measures to prevent asbestos contamination during renovations and demolitions could prove costly for building owners, but industry leaders say change is well over due. From 4 April new asbestos regulations come into force under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015. Health and safety consultants
Deadly asbestos is to be removed from two Bishop’s Stortford schools and Leventhorpe in Sawbridgeworth. The work is being financed by the Government as part of its latest Condition Improvement Fund (CIF). Applications to the CIF were invited from academies and sixth form colleges last
Decades of lax attitudes towards tackling deadly asbestos in schools is a national “scandal” threatening the health of former, current and future schoolchildren, a wide-ranging investigation has found. Decades of lax attitudes towards tackling deadly asbestos in schools is a national “scandal” threatening the health
A FORMER head of Derby Mountain Rescue died after contracting cancer while working for Rolls-Royce. In the weeks before his death, Steve Hilditch said he felt “very sad” he was “stopped doing the work he loved” with the rescue team because of the lung cancer
A handbook for people affected by an asbestos-related cancer is being launched in advance of the 20th anniversary of a landmark legal case involving a Leeds woman. It was April 2, 1996, when the legal proceedings started by June Hancock came to an end and
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A maintenance worker in Yellowstone National Park said a park concession company retaliated against him after he reported that he and five other employees were exposed to asbestos at a more than century-old lodge. Jon Kline told The Associated Press on
A widow has won hundreds of thousands of pounds damages for the death of her husband – who was struck down by asbestos-related cancer after years spent working as a carpet fitter. Colin Wolstenholme, of Bury , died aged 70 after a long struggle with mesothelioma –
A FORMER steel worker is appealing for his ex-colleagues to come forward as he battles an asbestos-related cancer. Sidney George Leavesley, 85, is searching for answers after being diagnosed in January with mesothelioma, a cancer in the lining of the lungs that is believed to have been
Cancer victim, 66, is dying from the asbestos in the lunchtime SANDWICHES he ate while working as an engineer. A 66-year-old former engineer is dying of cancer after accidentally eating asbestos fibres in his lunchtime sandwiches, it has been claimed. Retired grandfather-of-five Trevor Jones from
EVERY school in Stoke-on-Trent is to be tested for asbestos – after an academy was closed down for health and safety reasons. The firm maintaining school buildings in the Potteries has demanded the inspections after concerns the city council’s records are incomplete. It follows the
