Daughter’s warning after father’s
Ireland On-Line - A daughter of a plumber who died from asbestos exposure tonight warned many more people may be walking around unaware they were exposed to the lethal fibres decades ago. John Byrne, 59, from Blackrock in Dublin, died from a tumour in the chest on
Asbestos drill risk ’sat on’
Sidney Morning Herald - The NSW Fire Brigade is examining why it took at least six months for emergency workers to be told of asbestos exposure during anti-terrorist exercises at a Sydney army barracks. NSW Fire Brigade chief Commissioner Greg Mullins could not explain why
Now army checks for asbestos
Daily Telegraph Australia - THE Australian Defence Force has been dragged in to the asbestos scandal at the fire brigade’s Holsworthy training site, with soldiers at the army base now being checked for exposure to the deadly fibres. Two days after The Daily Telegraph revealed
Making the FAIR Act Fair
American Enterprise Institute - Welcome, reader! The AEI Liability Project hereby inaugurates its Liability Outlook series, designed to guarantee a paper trail to exclude any of its authors from Article III appointments. This Outlook examines the congressional attempts at asbestos
Ringing out a death warning
Daily Telegraph Australia - THE phones began ringing in the middle of last week. One by one, members of the elite ambulance and fire brigade rescue units were told the news they had never expected or wanted to hear. They had been exposed to asbestos diseases the silent
Deadly : 250 rescue workers ‘trained in asbestos’
News.com.au - AT least 250 of New South Wales’s elite emergency workers have been told they could die from exposure to lethal levels of asbestos during anti-terrorist training drills. The personnel at risk include members of the Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) unit