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COVID-19: Novel Coronavirus Content Free to Access
As a leading publisher of trusted science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences research, Taylor & Francis is committed to helping public health authorities, researchers, clinicians and the general public contain and manage the spread of COVID-19....
National Asbestos Awareness Week
23 - 29 November 2020 After the success of a nationally consistent slogan and theme for 2019, we will once again work with stakeholders this year to agree on a consistent message for 2020. The Asbestos Safety and Eradication Agency will also be providing a resource...
Asbestos liabilities and insurance
This fact sheet provides information about asbestos related health and financial risks, how to reduce those risks and whether insurance can help. The information will be of use to anyone planning minor or major renovation work in a domestic property that might contain...
WorkSafe Victoria has worked with key stakeholder Bushfire Recovery Victoria, to produce new bushfire asbestos clean up guidance.
The document provides guidance to those who manage or control a workplace, employers, and self-employed persons, who are proposing to perform asbestos clean up (removal) work on a building/structure that contains or is suspected of containing asbestos following a...
New Immunotherapy Drug Hailed as Major Breakthrough For Mesothelioma Patients
Researchers at Cancer Research UK's Southampton Clinical Trials Unit (SCTU) have made a major breakthrough which may help patients with mesothelioma survive for longer. The new immunotherapy drug, Nivolumab, had impressive trial results, reducing the participants...
Determination of airborne fibre number concentrations
The inhalation of airborne fibres in the workplace can cause a variety of occupational respiratory diseases, which contribute appreciably to morbidity and mortality among workers in both developing and developed countries. Monitoring airborne fibre concentrations is...
ECHA Scientific report for evaluation of limit values for asbestosatthe workplace
Preamble The Commission, in view of the preparation of the proposals for amendment of Directive 2009/148/EC on the protection of workers from the risks related to exposure to asbestos at work, and in linewith the 2017 Commission Communication ‘Safer and Healthier Work...
Final Risk Evaluation for Asbestos, Part 1: Chrysotile Asbestos
As part of US EPA mission to protect human health & the environment, the agency has completed a final risk evaluation for asbestosChrysotile asbestos is the only form of asbestos known to be imported, processed, or distributed for use in the USA.The agency...
British Occupational Hygiene Society Faculty of Asbestos Assessment and Management e-Bulletin
FAAM News Issue 2 - 2020 CONFINED SPACESThe lack of understanding that could cost lives. View the publication here
Hazardous Homes to Let: Protecting Renters from Asbestos
This paper is published by ResPublica on the current policies in the United Kingdom for landlords and private housing tenants. The UK current regime does not require landlords to manage and maintain asbestos in private living areas, which are not for common use. The...
Asbestos could be a powerful weapon against climate change (you read that right)
Scientists are exploring ways to use mineral waste from mines to pull huge amounts of carbon dioxide out of the air. On a scorching day this August, Caleb Woodall wielded his shovel like a spear, stabbing it into the hardened crust of an asbestos-filled pit near...