Charity backs Asbestos: The Hidden Killer - October 28, 2008

An East Midlands charity is backing a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) initiative aiming to raise awareness of the risk asbestos presents workers.

The Derbyshire Asbestos Support Team have agreed to support the campaign and [read more...]

HSE inspects 230 Hull businesses - October 24, 2008

A one-week inspection has examined nearly 230 businesses in Hull and hopes to have made the city a safer place.

These were conducted by Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspectors and the city's local authority and ten prohibition notices [read more...]

Asbestos-victim's widow backs HSE campaign - October 24, 2008

The widow of a tradesman who died of asbestos-related cancer is backing a campaign by the Health and Safety Executive which sets out to highlight the risks it still presents.

Lynda Thornton says the reason she is [read more...]

Scottish minister backs asbestos campaign - October 23, 2008

A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) campaign aimed at reducing the number of deaths related to asbestos exposure has been launched in Scotland by the secretary of state for the country.

Jim Murphy is backing read more...]

Workers 'still underestimating the risk' - October 22, 2008

Young workers are not realising the risk asbestos still presents them, one cancer-sufferer claims.

Tom King, a carpenter who was exposed to the substance while training, tells BBC News his own son's employees are often lax about taking safety [read more...]

Involve workers more in safety, minister urges - October 22, 2008

Organisations which involve workers directly with the health and safety process are the best prepared, says a government representative.

Health and safety minister Lord Bill McKenzie has told a conference in Manchester companies need to value this [read more...]

Surveyor pays GBP 39,000 for asbestos oversight - October 20, 2008

A company has been fined £18,000 after failing to identify asbestos in a school it was surveying.

Normandie Analytical Services will also pay £21,000 in costs after its breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act [read more...]

Man's death caused by asbestos, pathologist confirms - October 16, 2008

A pathologist has confirmed a man who died of lung cancer had contracted it through his exposure to asbestos during work in a brewery between 1967 and 1985.

The Burton Mail reports Michael Gilliver had been employed to remove [read more...]

Cape Asbestos pays compensation over dust death - October 14, 2008

A man who has died from lung cancer caused by asbestos has been awarded damages from the firm responsible for his exposure to it, a source reveals.

The family of George Dickerson have received an unspecified amount from Cape [read more...]

Ucatt calls for action over asbestos breaches - October 13, 2008

A construction union has called for the sacking of a housing association manager after he was shown on a BBC programme refusing workers masks while they were drilling asbestos.

Inside Out also shows managing director of Carlisle Housing Association [read more...]