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Timebomb of asbestos-related disease waiting to explode as builders fall victim to deadly effects
A timebomb of asbestos-related disease is waiting to explode as builders fall victim to its deadly effects, a campaigner said yesterday. Ian McConaghy has suffered from asbestosis for 15 years as a result of a career working with ships including those supplying Royal Navy vessels…
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Hospital maintenance staff ‘exposed’ to asbestos
Some maintenance staff at a leading cancer hospital were “unknowingly exposed” to airborne asbestos levels above safety standards, a report says. The BBC has reported that the Christie hospital in Manchester admitted “historically [it] may not have met the required health and safety standards”. They stressed that there was “no evidence” patients, visitors and non-maintenance…
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Asbestos found on hospital building site to be removed and treated as hazardous waste
Asbestos found on the site of a proposed hospital will have to be removed as hazardous waste. The recommendation has been passed on to contractors due to start on the St Luke’s project in Market Harborough…
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Staff sent for tests after asbestos find in tunnels beneath St Pancras Hospital
A network of tunnels beneath the sprawling St Pancras Hospital site has been welded shut and danger signs placed around manholes after asbestos was discovered by specialists. Staff are being sent for lung tests and X-rays by Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust and a decontamination unit has been installed at the site in St Pancras Way.…
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Operations cancelled after suspected asbestos found at North Wales hospital
Healthcare chiefs “seal off” six wards, cancel operations and divert emergency ambulances this morning after suspected asbestos dust was found in the air. Workmen wearing protective suits and breathing apparatus were seen going into the wards after air quality control tests revealed “elevated ratings” of an unconfirmed substance in the access corridors…
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Further delays to hospital build as asbestos found at the site of £7.8m project
Asbestos will have to be cleared from the site of a delayed community hospital project, the NHS announced. NHS Property Services has admitted there are traces of the potentially cancer-causing material where the proposed £7.8million St Luke’s Hospital will be built in Market Harborough. But it says the mineral is not hazardous and does not pose…
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Hospital handyman wins £150,000 after contracting asbestos-related cancer
Thomas Pritchard now suffers from mesothelioma after working with asbestos in the 1970s. The handyman has been awarded £150,000 after working with asbestos for just a few days at Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital, leaving him with incurable lung cancer…
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