Health and Safety statistics from the HSC Great Britain’s Health and Safety Commission/Executive (HSC/E) has published the latest statistics on work-related ill health, workplace injury and enforcement in Great Britain.  Estimates that are currently being updated of occupational cancer range from 3,000 to 12,000 per year.  Deaths from mesothelioma have increased from 153 in 1968 […]

According to an article appearing in the February 27, 2007 edition of the Manchester Evening News, mesothelioma–a cancer of the lining of the lung, abdomen or heart related to asbestos exposure–is affecting growing numbers women and younger people in the United Kingdom.  Traditionally, men who worked in construction and shipbuilding – particularly in the 1960s […]