The following information for the UAB community has been gathered to inform our students, faculty, staff and guests regarding the presence of asbestos-containing material (ACM) in some buildings on ...

Workplace safety is a constant balance between the costs of preventative measures and industry’s need for productivity and profitability. As a case study of this tradeoff, the asbestos tragedy offers ...

Safety” features in vintage homes that would be highly illegal today Walk through a house built before 1980 and you are ...

Chrysotile, a type of asbestos, is thought to be from Daler-Rowney factory's roof in Bracknell.

It is important to make sure workers are made aware of any presumed asbestos-containing materials found in buildings if they were built and installed before the 1980s. The importance of occupational ...

Home renovators are being warned of asbestos dangers as medical experts see a long-predicted "third wave" of disease sufferers. "A number of people have predicted this would happen, a number of ...

North Tyneside Council says it is shutting schools as a precautionary measure.

At a time when blight removal is at historic highs and a record number of contractors are getting into the asbestos-abatement business in Michigan, the state's worker safety agency rarely gets tough ...

Seattle Environmental Services LLC faces willful and serious violations after misleading investigators and allowing employees to remove 3,000 square feet of asbestos without respirators. A Puget Sound ...