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 ...

Britain's Health and Safety Executive is taking comments until Sept. 30 on its proposed consolidated version of the Approved Code of Practice (L143) -- Work with materials containing asbestos Control ...

Asbestos is the generic name for several types of minerals that occur naturally in the Earth's surface. Asbestos became popular in building materials during the late 1800s because of it's fire and ...

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 ...

Britain’s workplace regulator, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), is reminding manufacturing firms of their asbestos duties ahead of Global Asbestos Awareness Week (1-7 April). HSE says that ...