Call for an asbestos eradication law



In October 2015, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Occupational Safety and Health called for the complete eradication of asbestos in the UK by 2035. In its report, The asbestos crisis: why Britain needs an eradication law, the All-Party Group set out recommendations for all commercial, public and rented domestic premises to be registered with the HSE and surveyed by 2022, with a view to the full removal of asbestos from public and educational buildings by the European Parliament-backed date of 2028 and total eradication by 2035. The report is available from the TUC website (https://www.tuc.org.uk/sites/default/files/asbestoseradication.pdf).


Education unions have joined forces to run the Joint Asbestos Union Committee to campaign to make all UK schools and colleges safe from the dangers of asbestos (see www.juac.org.uk/news).