A FATHER of four who has an asbestos-related cancer believes he picked it up while working in a former Caterham hospital. And lawyers acting for Mervyn Waiton have appealed for others who worked at St Lawrence’s Hospital at around the same time to get in touch. Mr
A BELFAST company has been fined £9,000 after admitting a series of health and safety breaches linked to asbestos being disturbed whilst renovating a bar. The family-run JDM Property Limited, based on Belfast’s Lisburn Road, was contracted to carry out construction work on the Devenish
A SECURITY guard may have died after being exposed to asbestos in the wake of an IRA bomb attack. Stuart Packard, who lived in Broomfield with his wife and two children, was deployed as part of the clean-up operation near Manchester’s Arndale Centre shopping complex
Derry City and Strabane District Council has said there is a legal requirement on those responsible for maintaining business premises to deal with asbestos, following revelations about the closure of the Austins store in Derry. A spokesperson for the council confirmed that its officials have
VICTIMS of asbestos-related cancer in Scotland could be in line for bigger payouts following a ruling in their favour at the Court of Session. A worker who sought compensation when he developed pleural plaques on his lungs as a result of being exposed to asbestos
Police Scotland has been told to take “remedial action” over the presence of asbestos in some of its buildings. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) served the force with an improvement notice following inspections at four sites in Glasgow earlier this year. The issue was
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
