With the month of November being Lung Cancer Awareness Month, efforts are underway to help draw attention to this devastating condition, in addition to spreading awareness of its associated symptoms. This month, people with symptoms including persistent cough,...

The failure to remove asbestos safely from a plot of land has led to two directors of a construction firm receiving fines. The punishments relate to an incident in November 2021, when Waterbarn Limited directors Anthony Sumner and Neil Brown were involved in the...

Reports indicating that half of NHS Scotland buildings contain asbestos have prompted calls for plans to be put in place to remove the potentially dangerous material. The Herald newspaper said that “shock” data indicated that 52% of the Scottish NHS’s buildings...

A series of failures in the management of asbestos at a Poundland store in Ipswich has led to the retailer being hit with a £565,000 fine. The variety store chain was prosecuted by Ipswich Borough Council after the local authority’s discovery of failures at the...

A company director from near the Shopshire town of Bridgnorth and two engineering firms which failed to manage asbestos risks to their staff have been ordered to pay over £100,000 in relation to these breaches. What were the details of this case? At the centre of this...

The UK Government has refused a recommendation by the Work and Pensions Committee that policymakers commit to ensuring the removal of all asbestos from non-domestic buildings no later than 40 years from now. What did the committee suggest should happen? In April 2022,...