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Asbestos: Young workers urged to take risks seriously

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has launched a new campaign to raise awareness of the risks of asbestos, with a particular focus on...

Retired scaffolder dies of Asbestos related illness

A 72-year-old man has died from industry-related lung cancer. Terry Aldridge sadly passed away on October 13 at St Wilfrid's Hospice, Chichester. Terry was a scaffolder in...

Inquest: Former scaffolder could have breathed in asbestos as a child

A former scaffolder may have died through exposure to asbestos on his father’s clothing, an inquest heard. According to local media, Alan Cooper, aged 52,...

Safety & Access Issue Advice for Scaffolding Contractors (Asbestos)

Training firm Safety & Access have issued advice for Scaffolding Contractors for managing and working with asbestos. Safety & Access have said: There has been some...

Ex-scaffolder in a ‘battle for justice’ on asbestos

  A FORMER scaffolder said his life has been cruelly "cut short" by an incurable asbestos-related cancer. Michael Brown believes he developed mesothelioma after breathing in...

Scaffolder dies 43 years on after asbestos accident

A YORKSHIRE man survived an industrial accident in 1965 only to die 43 years later because he was not protected from asbestos particles in...

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