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Asbestos Awareness For Xmas Holiday DIY Plans
The traditional festive break is often used as an opportunity to catch up on those long overdue, small DIY jobs that need to be attended to around the home. At the very least, this is likely to involve drilling, hammering, scraping or sandpapering wall or ceiling surfaces – and the probability of encountering hidden asbestos!
Mesothelioma Fatality In Different Occupations
Lack of asbestos awareness to the risk of exposure during it’s peak usage as an insulation and fire retardant product was never simply confined to the most well known ‘black spots’ of British industry, such as shipbuilding and the railways, textile manufacture, iron and steel foundries, building and construction, vehicle assembly.
Could there be any circumstance where the lack of asbestos awareness to the fatal health risks of exposure and breathing in of the fibre dust particles be any more destructive to victims and their families?
The continuing risk from asbestos found in many schools around the UK was raised once again by recent news of further deaths from mesothelioma, believed to be caused by the presence of asbestos-containing materials (ACMs) at two teaching institutions in the north of England.
The announcement that a full asbestos survey is to be conducted alongside planned renovations of the apartment at Kensington Palace where the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and Kate Middleton are to reside is a reminder that asbestos material is a deadly time capsule which still lies buried in some half a million properties around the UK.