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HSE Launches New Consultation on Tighter Asbestos Regulations to Enhance Worker Protection

2025-11-19T16:59:19+00:00

Earlier this month, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) launched a public consultation on proposals to strengthen the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012, aiming to further protect workers and building users from exposure to asbestos. The consultation, which opened on 10 November 2025, is seeking stakeholder views on three key proposals to improve asbestos management and safety practices across Great Britain.   Key Proposals The HSE is consulting on the following regulatory and non-regulatory measures: Regulatory proposals 1. To amend the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 and associated guidance to ensure the independence and impartiality of roles in the four-stage clearance [...]

HSE Launches New Consultation on Tighter Asbestos Regulations to Enhance Worker Protection2025-11-19T16:59:19+00:00

Talcum Powder Giant Sued in UK Over Cancer Risks

2025-10-27T15:25:22+00:00

It has been reported that Johnson & Johnson, the pharmaceutical giant known for its Johnson & Johnson baby powder, is facing a major legal challenge in the UK over allegations that the firm knowingly sold baby powder contaminated with asbestos. According to BBC News, the lawsuit is being brought by KP Law against Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and its consumer health subsidiary Kenvue Ltd. The claim alleges that J&J were aware that, as early as the 1960s, its mineral-based talcum powder contained fibrous forms of talc, as well as tremolite and actinolite. The article highlights that when in their fibrous form, [...]

Talcum Powder Giant Sued in UK Over Cancer Risks2025-10-27T15:25:22+00:00

Bridge McFarland Secures £107,500 Damages for Retired Maintenance Fitter Diagnosed with Asbestosis

2025-10-03T10:40:53+01:00

Bridge McFarland LLP’s industrial disease specialists have successfully secured £107,500 damages for a retired maintenance fitter who was diagnosed with asbestosis in May 2024.   Exposure to Asbestos While Working at Immingham Docks Our client was employed by the company, which produced chemicals and fertilisers and has settled the claim, between 1969 and 1993, working at Immingham Docks. During his employment, our client was exposed to very high levels of asbestos. His work required him to regularly remove old asbestos from pipework to carry out repairs, often working in a dusty atmosphere with very poor ventilation. He was also not provided [...]

Bridge McFarland Secures £107,500 Damages for Retired Maintenance Fitter Diagnosed with Asbestosis2025-10-03T10:40:53+01:00

Compensation Awarded to Family After Asbestos-Related Death

2025-09-12T16:50:42+01:00

Earlier this year, the family of a man who died from an asbestos-related cancer, were awarded compensation from his former employer. As part of the settlement, the wife and son donated a portion of the settlement to Salisbury Hospice, which had cared for him before his death. In speaking to BBC Radio Wiltshire, his wife said: “His last few months would have been unbearable without the hospice’s help.” Mr Downton was diagnosed with mesothelioma, which was caused by being exposed to asbestos between 1977 and 1982 when he worked as a painter and decorator. He died in 2023, just a year [...]

Compensation Awarded to Family After Asbestos-Related Death2025-09-12T16:50:42+01:00

PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPILS EXPOSED TO ASBESTOS IN BRISTOL

2025-07-01T14:09:56+01:00

A construction site supervisor has been fined after taking action that exposed primary school students and teaching staff to harmful asbestos throughout the course of renovation work taking place in Bristol. Occurring during May of 2023, it is now known that the site supervisor cut through asbestos insulating board using a saw. As a result, asbestos fibres spread through the school’s hall, which was used for the subsequent two days by both young children and teachers alike. An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that the site supervisor failed to follow standard training, as well as concise instructions [...]

PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPILS EXPOSED TO ASBESTOS IN BRISTOL2025-07-01T14:09:56+01:00

Sufferers Reveal the Common Ways They Contracted Mesothelioma

2025-02-13T10:45:06+00:00

As the UK struggles to keep up with the mounting mortality rates of people diagnosed with asbestos-related deaths, the policy of successive governments still dictates asbestos should not be disturbed. Still today, many believe that provided asbestos is painted over or not degraded so that its fibres are airborne, it is safe. Recent research and studies suggest this is not the case. According to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), asbestos is the biggest cause of work-related deaths in the UK. Today, many hospitals, schools and other public buildings are aged and commonly in varying states of disrepair, meaning the chances [...]

Sufferers Reveal the Common Ways They Contracted Mesothelioma2025-02-13T10:45:06+00:00

Government Urged to Take Immediate Action To Develop Asbestos Regulations

2025-01-10T14:58:37+00:00

In a letter published by the Guardian on 2 January, Dr Gill Read, a former technical adviser from the Joint Union Asbestos Committee, has proclaimed that due to asbestos exposure the UK has the highest percentage of mesothelioma cases worldwide. He also wrote that the Guardian’s investigation into underinvestment in public buildings has revealed its harmful effects and that as many as 1.5m children in England are studying in unfit school buildings (read more here). However, he added that it was “heartening” that a government spokesperson has stated that “immediate action to remedy the state of disrepair” should be taken. He [...]

Government Urged to Take Immediate Action To Develop Asbestos Regulations2025-01-10T14:58:37+00:00

Bridge McFarland LLP secures £125,000 damages for family of Grimsby and Immingham Docker who died from Asbestosis

2024-11-29T11:39:59+00:00

Bridge McFarland LLP has secured £125,000 in damages for the family of a former Grimsby and Immingham Docker who died from Asbestosis. The deceased was diagnosed with Asbestosis after undergoing a routine CT scan at Grimsby Hospital. He was regularly exposed to asbestos in the 1960’s and 1970’s whilst working on the Grimsby and Immingham Docks unloading bags of asbestos dust which were imported before being distributed elsewhere. The bags would regularly split during the unloading process which covered the deceased and his work colleagues in clouds of dangerous asbestos dust. The deceased was never warned about the dangers of working [...]

Bridge McFarland LLP secures £125,000 damages for family of Grimsby and Immingham Docker who died from Asbestosis2024-11-29T11:39:59+00:00

New Clothes Range Inspired by Renowned Local Glaswegian Asbestos Campaigner

2024-11-29T12:06:57+00:00

A Glasgow shipyard worker who spent 25 years campaigning for victims of asbestos has inspired a new clothing range which aims to continue spreading awareness whilst honouring his contribution to the fight against asbestos. The range, launched by Glasgow-based clothing brand Finnieston, includes a shipyard-themed T-shirt featuring Bob Dickie’s initials. Five per cent of the proceeds will go to the Clydebank Asbestos Group, a charity dedicated to supporting those affected by asbestos exposure. Bob Dickie, a former worker at the John Brown shipyard and one of the founding members of the Clydebank Asbestos Group, sadly passed away in October of last year but [...]

New Clothes Range Inspired by Renowned Local Glaswegian Asbestos Campaigner2024-11-29T12:06:57+00:00

Promising Research Project into the Diagnosis and Treatment of Mesothelioma

2024-11-29T13:02:55+00:00

Mesothelioma UK, the mesothelioma cancer charity, has recently shared details of a six-month research project that has been investigating a new class of cancer target for mesothelioma diagnosis and treatment. This latest research study, supported by Mesothelioma UK and funded by Erase Meso, aims to characterise a new target for cancer treatment that could potentially benefit patients suffering from this asbestos-related cancer. According to the article, the research team focused on an enzyme called ‘MDIG’, which acts a cellular switch using oxygen. Although MDIG is already known to be persistently active in several tumour types, it has not been previously explicitly [...]

Promising Research Project into the Diagnosis and Treatment of Mesothelioma2024-11-29T13:02:55+00:00

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