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Asbestos Tile Import Alert!
The banning of materials manufactured from asbestos in the UK, the US, Australia and many other industrialised countries around the world, does not stop others from both producing and exporting asbestos containing products known to cause fatal asbestos-related diseases.
The Construction Safety Campaign has just this week released details of a mass rally protest against the Canadian industry export of asbestos to the developing world, to be held on Canada’s National Day, Thursday 1st July, at Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London.
Asbestos Threat Underestimated In The UK
More than half of work-related deaths from six major cancers in the UK are due to asbestos, according to a recent London-based public health report, and estimates are greater than those currently used in UK health and safety strategy planning.
It has been often asserted that the raising of asbestos awareness in recent years, combined with the pressure to reform legislation and asbestosis lawyers pushing harder to obtain asbestos compensation for their long suffering clients has meant companies are taking their duty of care to their employees more seriously.
Asbestos is the biggest single cause of occupational death in the UK. Of the six million tonnes of asbestos imported into the country, a huge amount came from Canadian mines. The federal government in Ottawa and the provincial government in Quebec have aided and abetted the Canadian asbestos industry to create a global climate in which the sale of this natural resource – an acknowledged carcinogen – can continue. Canada continues to sell asbestos in the developing world. 98% of Bangladesh’s asbestos imports in 2008 came from Canada and 93% of the Philippines asbestos imports.