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Canada were exporting asbestos to India circa 2012. India has an expanding asbestos industry and a large health issue in relation to asbestos related diseases. In the UK around 4500 people die each year from asbestos related diseases. This is on the increase as well. It is not an old mans story...

The Council have legal duties to manage asbestos in the properties that they own/manage. Regulation 4 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations. Same regulations also require that asbestos is identified before work starts which could disturb it, hence the survey. This building sounds like it is a...

Asbestos (in all its forms) was finally banned in the UK in 1999. Crocidolite (blue) and Amosite (brown) were banned in the mid eighties. It is commonly found in many commercial and domestic properties as well as plant and equipment such as heating systems. Therefore any structure etc. built or...