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Russia Plays Roulette As Top Asbestos Industry.
Around 100,000 workers die each year from asbestos-related disease. As the world’s top asbestos producer, Russia, with its strong government backing, vies with China and India to be the chief cause of future global epidemics of asbestosis and mesothelioma.
Asbestos Exposure Across The Class Divide
Asbestos exposure, leading to fatal diseases such as mesothelioma, tends to be thought of as predominantly affecting sections of society who were either involved in the manufacture of, or worked with asbestos products. The risk spread to affect individuals who were inadvertently the victim of asbestos exposure in occupational locations where the manufactured asbestos products, e.g. ceiling tiles, were often found, such as in schools and colleges.
The evolution of legislation, which aims to update regulations dealing with the management of asbestos, has been dependent on raising asbestos awareness, campaigning for change and seeking redress through the law courts for asbestos compensation entitlement.
A Cornwall development company, Norwegian Homes Limited, has been fined £4,500 for failing to undertake a survey for the presence of dangerous asbestos fibres when demolishing a Hotel.
A local authority and it’s contractor have been fined after a worker left a family exposed to dangerous asbestos fibres for three days.