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What you need to know about asbestos

Mesothelioma Awareness Day highlights importance of asbestos prevention in the workplace
September 23, 2020

Mesothelioma Awareness Day is on September 26, and is a day to recognize the importance of asbestos prevention in the workplace. 


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EHS research

Researchers: Take-home workplace contaminants are a public health hazard

February 3, 2020
Workplace toxins that are inadvertently tracked by employees into their homes serve “as an intriguing example of how occupational conditions can have broader public health consequences,” according to scientists who’ve studied the problem. In Eliminating Take-Home Exposures: Recognizing the Role of Occupational Health and Safety in Broader Community Health, researchers reframe the problem as one arising from unsanitary worker behavior – the current thinking – to a larger issue that needs to be viewed through an ecosocial lens in order to institute effective prevention.
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2019 in review

Top regulatory stories of 2019

December 26, 2019
Hours of service regulations for truckers, workplace violence prevention and hazardous materials that endanger bees and people were among the top regulatory stories during 2019.
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A FairWarning story

Mistrial declared in high-stakes Johnson & Johnson talc-cancer case

Myron Levin
September 25, 2018
A mistrial was declared today after a California state court jury deadlocked on whether Johnson & Johnson was responsible for the asbestos-related cancer of a woman who blamed her illness on longtime use of contaminated baby powder. Soon after starting a sixth day of deliberations, jurors in Los Angeles Superior Court told Judge Margaret L. Oldendorf that they were at an impasse, with eight of 12 favoring an award of damages to the plaintiff, Carolyn Weirick.
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Asbestos in the United States

Will it ever be banned?
Jackie Clark
January 19, 2017
Asbestos is a long, thin, fibrous mineral made of up of microscopic crystals. There are six different types that are split up into two different groups: serpentine or amphibole. Serpentine asbestos is classified by its layered structure and curly fibers. One particular type of serpentine asbestos – chrysotile – is most commonly found in building materials throughout the United States.
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European Union

Europe grapples with asbestos issue

47K deaths per year v. billions to remove the substance
July 20, 2015

The total number of asbestos-related deaths in Europe could peak at 47,000 per year -- 50% higher than previously believed and double the number of deaths caused by road accidents – according to an expert who spoke last month at a conference entitled, Freeing Europe Safely from Asbestos.


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Report from Europe

Asbestos: the long and winding road to a global ban

May 15, 2015

Report from the European Trade Union Institute: An important international meeting on toxic products opened in Geneva on 4 May with, as one of the main items on its agenda, the inclusion of chrysotile in the Rotterdam Convention. In spite of the deleterious effects of this form of asbestos, lobbying by producer and importer states has so far enabled this carcinogenic substance to remain outside the purview of this instrument.


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