Archive for the ‘Government Asbestos News’ Category
Lack Of Asbestos Awareness A Textbook Case In Schools.
The risk of exposure to asbestos in schools is an issue that is not going to go away anytime soon. Especially when building contractors fail to carry out the necessary procedures for asbestos risk assessment to prevent the release of the deadly fibre dust.
In seven day’s time, on December 14th, men and women living in Ireland who have the asbestos-related condition of pleural plaques will be allowed to once again, pursue a claim for mesothelioma compensation.
Breakthrough Ruling On Pleural Plaques Claims.
The presence of pleural plaques indicating exposure to asbestos, has been a legal bone of contention amongst a number of insurance firms in recent years, and which has obstructed sufferers from pursuing a claim for mesothelioma compensation.
Cuts To Campaigns Continue Asbestos Risk
The scrapping of the Building Schools for the Future programme in July 2010, an ambitious £55bn project, which aimed to rebuild every secondary school in England, would have also finally removed the chrysotile white asbestos still hidden in the fabric of 75 per cent of affected buildings, a continued risk to teachers, pupils and other staff.
Low Level Asbestos Risk Under Review.
The raising of asbestos awareness, especially since the first Asbestos Regulations of 1969, which simply aimed to ‘manage asbestos contact’, and the evolution of legislation to adequately control and, ultimately, prohibit the use of the white chrysotile form of the hazardous material in 1999, has always been slow and contested every step of the way.