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Threat of asbestos contamination stopped work at major construction project

Threat of asbestos contamination stopped work at major construction project

By Neil Munro / October 28, 2021

If organisations need reminding what damage even the threat of asbestos contamination can do to their business, they don’t need to look further than an incident which happened recently in Australia. A couple of weeks ago, hundreds of workers walked out on the $3.6bn Queen’s Wharf redevelopment in Brisbane because they were concerned that materials … Read more

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Construction firm fined £30,000 after exposing workers to asbestos

By Neil Munro / July 8, 2021

Every year, thousands of people in the UK are diagnosed with asbestos-related diseases. Often people have developed these conditions after coming into contact with asbestos years earlier – in some cases decades earlier. Sadly, this doesn’t mean that people aren’t being exposed to asbestos today. It is estimated that there are around 1.5m buildings in … Read more

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