Top Safety Accreditation for Deconstruct UK

Deconstruct UK has been awarded accreditation from safecontractor for its commitment to achieving excellence in health and safety.Safecontractor is a leading third party accreditation scheme which recognises very high standards in health and safety management amongst UK contractors.Deconstruct specialise in all aspects of deconstruction, dismantling and demolition works, including asbestos management and asbestos abatement. The company’s application......
 

Glasgow Health Board fined for asbestos failings

A recent article publish on the Risk Management Services blog reported that a Scottish health authority has been fined £6,000 for failing to clear asbestos from the Royal Hospital for Sick Children at Yorkhill in Glasgow.The health authority potentially exposed several workers to the asbestos fibres due to the failed management of the risks of asbestos in a basement plant room of the hospital.On the 20th of June, Glasgow Sheriff Court heard that......
 

Guidance issued on ‘Managing Asbestos in the Retail Sector’

The Retail Asbestos Working Group (RAWG) has launched a guidance document that promotes the continuous improvement of asbestos management in the retail sector.The purpose of the guide which is called ‘The Management of Asbestos Containing Materials in the Retail Sector’ is to promote good-practice and to provide guidance to retailers regarding their duties under the Control of Asbestos Regulations (CAR) 2012 and to contractors who work in this sector.The......
 

Derisk appointed by Solihull Community Housing to carry out comprehensive audit of asbestos risk management policies

Asbestos Risk Management experts, Derisk, were appointed by Solihull Community Housing to provide a full Asbestos Management Compliance Audit and Health Check of their policies.Derisk provided Solihull Community Housing (SCH) with a comprehensive and critical audit of their asbestos risk management policies, procedures and processes, to ensure that they are in line with the current statutory requirements and industry best-practice.The audit consisted......
 

CPD Accredited Asbestos Management Seminars

Here at Derisk, we know the importance of spending your time wisely which is why Robin Nower is embarking on a series of CPD accredited asbestos management seminars for a number of our clients. The sessions are only 1 hour long and can be arranged as a breakfast or lunchtime slot, so you and your team can get on with your daily duties without interruption.The sessions are FREE and cover:Asbestos Management for Duty Holders and Commercial Managers;Asbestos Information for Designers, Planners and Architects in Construction Projects; and/orCDM Duty Holder Responsibilities for Clients and PlannersPlease......
 

North East glass Firm fined after potential asbestos exposure

A North East glass firm has been fined after the potential exposure of dangerous asbestos fibres to nearly 200 workers and visitors at its Consett premises.The incident which was triggered by fire alarm installers when work at the firms Princess Building on Leadgate Industrial Estate started on July 12th 2011, which then went on to be investigated by the Health and Safety Executive.Recommendations by the safety advisors for Consett-based Romag Ltd......
 

Independant Asbestos Training Providers – Don’t miss your opportunity to attend the 2014 Annual Dinner

Tickets for the 2014 Annual Dinner are selling quickly. Tickets have been on sale for just over 2 weeks and we have already allocated 25% of them.The evening will be a formal dinner themed on the 1920's and “The Great Gatsby”.The evening is aimed at bringing all sectors of the Asbestos Industry together, whilst raising awareness and funds for the IATP’s chosen Charity, The Derbyshire Asbestos Support Team.The Annual Dinner also includes  “The IATP Recognition Awards”, which honours individuals for their work and contributions across all areas of the Asbestos Industry.The......
 

Provision of CPD Asbestos Management Seminar for Commercial Real Estate Management Professionals

Derisk, experts in Health and Safety Risk Management, provided a ‘free to attend’ targeted CPD lunchtime seminar for Commercial Real Estate Management Professionals.Robin Nower, Director at Derisk, provided a ‘free to attend’ targeted CPD lunchtime seminar for Commercial Real Estate Management Professionals, the seminar consisted of providing guidance on how to comply and how to ensure clients comply with the duties to manage asbestos, as stipulated......
 

A targeted approach to asbestos-related cancer

Current ratings for:A targeted approach to asbestos-related cancer A new targeted therapy for asbestos-related tumours has shown promise in an animal model. The results, reported in the open access journal BMC Cancer, raise hopes of a new therapy for this currently incurable cancer.Malignant mesothelioma (MMs) is a rare form of cancer, most commonly caused by exposure to asbestos. It tends to be diagnosed decades after exposure occurs, so is rarely caught early. Current treatments, including surgery and chemotherapy, have limited efficacy and unpleasant side effects.Traditional chemotherapeutic......
 

New data for engineering immune cells shows early promise in solid tumors

Current ratings for:New data for engineering immune cells shows early promise in solid tumors Engineered immune cells, called CARTmeso cells, designed to direct antitumor immune responses toward tumors that carry a protein called mesothelin, showed antitumor activity in two patients with advanced cancers that had not responded to prior treatments, according to a study published in Cancer Immunology Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.Chimeric antigen receptor T cells (CAR T cells) are a form of personalized cell therapy that uses immune cells called T cells from......
 

Leicester leads two groundbreaking trials into treatments for asbestos-related cancer

Current ratings for:Leicester leads two groundbreaking trials into treatments for asbestos-related cancer University of Leicester researchers are leading two major trials into treatments for a type of cancer which affects those exposed to asbestos.Professor Dean Fennell, of the University's Department of Cancer Studies and Molecular Medicine, is leading two groundbreaking trials into mesothelioma - a form of lung cancer strongly linked with exposure to asbestos.Mesothelioma most commonly starts in the inner lining of the chest wall, causing it to thicken, reducing lung capacity - which in turn......
 

Prognostic potential of rib cage lymph nodes in mesothelioma

Current ratings for:Prognostic potential of rib cage lymph nodes in mesothelioma For the first time, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have shown the predictive power of a group of overlooked lymph nodes--known as the posterior intercostal lymph nodes--that could serve as a better tool to stage and ultimately treat patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma. The findings were presented at the 15th World Conference on Lung Cancer. Physicians look to lymph nodes to stage essentially all cancers, including mesothelioma. The presence or absence of......
 

First Portable, Real-Time Asbestos Detector Offers Promise Of Better Workplace Safety

Current ratings for:First Portable, Real-Time Asbestos Detector Offers Promise Of Better Workplace Safety Asbestos was once called a miracle material because of its toughness and fire-resistant properties. It was used as insulation, incorporated into cement and even woven into firemen's protective clothing. Over time, however, scientists pinned the cause of lung cancers such as mesothelioma on asbestos fiber inhalation. Asbestos was banned in the many industrialized countries in the 1980s, but the threat lingers on in the ceilings, walls and floors of old buildings and homes. Now a team of researchers......
 

A New Approach To Reduce Risk In Construction Industry

Current ratings for:A New Approach To Reduce Risk In Construction Industry "Some of the most pressing occupational health hazard risks in construction" are associated with masonry operations, asphalt roofing, and welding, wrote Deborah Young-Corbett in an article recently accepted by the Journal of Civil Engineering and Management. To reduce these health risks to construction workers, Young-Corbett, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech and a member of the university's Myers-Lawson School of Construction since 2007, has studied much of the existing literature,......
 

Potential new target for treating malignant pleural mesothelioma

Current ratings for:Potential new target for treating malignant pleural mesothelioma Malignant mesothelioma is a rare asbestos-associated malignancy with limited therapeutic options. Despite advances in the treatment, the median survival remains 12 months from the time of diagnosis. Increased understanding of the molecular basis for the diverse signaling pathways involved in cancer progression should promote the discovery of novel biomarkers for early diagnosis and potentially lead to more effective therapeutic tools for the disease. In the September issue of the International Association for......
 

New online asbestos course for DIY renovators

Current ratings for:New online asbestos course for DIY renovators Home renovators are being encouraged to extend their 'DIY' skills and take a free online course to help them identify and safely handle asbestos.Cancer Council and the Department of Health in WA have developed the course in the face of growing concern about a 'third wave' of people contracting the deadly disease, mesothelioma, from exposure to asbestos while doing their own renovations.Chair of Cancer Council Australia's Occupational and Environmental Cancer Risk Committee, Terry Slevin, said short-term or low-level exposure to......
 

Concerns Over The Toxic Properties Of Carbon Nanotubes Resolved

Current ratings for:Concerns Over The Toxic Properties Of Carbon Nanotubes Resolved Safety fears about carbon nanotubes, due to their structural similarity to asbestos, have been alleviated following research showing that reducing their length removes their toxic properties. In a new study, published in the journal Angewandte Chemie, evidence is provided that the asbestos-like reactivity and pathogenicity reported for long, pristine nanotubes can be completely alleviated if their surface is modified and their effective length is reduced as a result of chemical treatment. First atomically described......
 

Lung Cancer Risk Greatly Increased By Asbestos Exposure, Asbestosis, And Smoking Combined Greatly Increase

Current ratings for:Lung Cancer Risk Greatly Increased By Asbestos Exposure, Asbestosis, And Smoking Combined Greatly Increase The chances of developing lung cancer associated with asbestos exposure, asbestosis and smoking are dramatically increased when these three risk factors are combined, and quitting smoking significantly reduces the risk of developing lung cancer after long-term asbestos exposure, according to a new study. "The interactions between asbestos exposure, asbestosis and smoking, and their influence on lung cancer risk are incompletely understood," said lead author Steven B.......
 

Study shows putting aggressive cancer on a starvation diet slows tumour growth

Current ratings for:Study shows putting aggressive cancer on a starvation diet slows tumour growth Scientists researching one of Britain's deadliest rare cancers, mesothelioma, at Queen Mary's Barts Cancer Institute studied how cancer cells are not able to survive and continue growing when starved of the amino acid 'arginine'. Cells are normally able to make arginine themselves, but research found around half of tumours lacked this ability and need to be fed arginine in order to survive, leaving it vulnerable to starvation.The identification of this 'Achilles' heel' led to a clinical trial led......
 

Cancer Cells Resistant To Cisplatin Are Sensitive To Experimental Anticancer Drugs, PARP Inhibitors

Current ratings for:Cancer Cells Resistant To Cisplatin Are Sensitive To Experimental Anticancer Drugs, PARP Inhibitors Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors may be a novel treatment strategy for patients with cancer that has become resistant to the commonly used chemotherapy drug cisplatin, according to data from a preclinical study published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. "Cisplatin is one of the most widely used conventional, anticancer chemotherapy drugs," said Guido Kroemer, M.D., Ph.D., professor at University Paris Descartes in Paris, France.......
 

46 people lose their lives due to workplace accidents in 2013

January 6th 2014Official figures, released today (Monday 6th January) by the Health and Safety Authority, show that there were 46 people killed in work-related accidents during 2013, compared to 48 in 2012. There were reductions in fatalities in the Agriculture sector, from 21 in 2012 down to 16 in 2013; the Fishing sector, from 7 in 2012 to 4 in 2013; and the Water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities sector with 4 fatalities in 2012 and 1 reported last year.Commenting on the sector with the highest number of fatalities, Martin O'Halloran, CEO of the Health and Safety......
 

City in Russia Unable to Kick Asbestos Habit

Olga Kravets for The New York TimesEvery weekday afternoon in Asbest, Russia, miners set explosions in an asbestos strip mine, sending out clouds of carcinogenic dust. ASBEST, Russia — This city of about 70,000 people on the eastern slopes of the Ural Mountains is a pleasant enough place to live except for one big drawback: when the wind picks up, clouds of carcinogenic dust blow through. Retirees living in Asbest, including Tamara A. Biserova, center, and Nina A. Zubkova, right. Asbest means asbestos in Russian, and it is everywhere here. Residents describe layers of it collecting on living......
 

The Asbestos Scam

“Since my diagnosis with lung cancer,” she wrote in a recent legal filing, “I have had mental and emotional distress and inconvenience. I am fearful of death.” She added, “My asbestos-related condition has disrupted my life, limiting me in my everyday activities and interfering with living a normal life.” Asbestos-related? Yes, that’s right. It’s hard these days for smokers to sue tobacco companies because everyone knows the dangers of cigarettes. Instead, McCarthy has become part of a growing trend: lung cancer victims who are suing companies that once used asbestos. With asbestos litigation......
 

The Pros and Cons of an Asbestos Bill

Your June 20 editorial “One-Sided Bill on Asbestos Injuries,” arguing that Congress shouldn’t pass the Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency Act until significant fraud in the asbestos bankruptcy claims process is detailed, is misguided. It’s already clear that there’s fraudulent activity within the asbestos trust system. The House Judiciary Committee has held three hearings, which revealed an opaque asbestos trust system constructed largely by plaintiffs’ firms that benefit from payments to asbestos claimants. They also revealed concrete examples of plaintiffs’ filing conflicting claims among......
 
 
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