I followed the story at the time with keen interest because asbestos sheets were used a lot in the building sector in Ghana. Unfortunately, to date, I have not heard any warnings from any quarter.

He explained that the asbestos sheet over the bed his son and daughter slept in, was cut open. Suspecting something dreadful has happened to his child he had called the police emergency line.

It consumes about 65,000tonnes every year. Hospital surveillance 2012 showed a high percentage of asbestos-related diseases. Viet Nam has already taken measures to reduce the harm of asbestos to ...

Non-Friable: Asbestos is bound within a matrix that does not allow airborne fibres to be readily generated (eg vinyl tiles, asbestos cement sheet). Asbestos fibres are not generally detected in the ...

A man who said he spent more than a year cutting up asbestos sheets without protective equipment has been awarded a six-figure payout. David Lawrence was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a type of ...

According to Patel, asbestos cement sheets are extremely toxic for human health. “A person who is exposed to asbestos can be afflicted with lung cancer, cancer of mesothelioma or cancer of vocal ...

The sheets of asbestos roofing were dumped in bogland high up on the mountain road leading to Clermont Cairn at Edentubber, Ravensdale. There is, Cllr Loughran says, an on-going problem with ...