Asbestos: from lifesaver to killer
Article
The Safety and Health Practitioner
2001
5
45-47
asbestos ; history ; legal aspect ; prohibition of use ; user centred design
Asbestos
English
"When it was the first introduced to industry, asbestos was hailed as a lifesaver - only for the substance to be banned 100 years later because of the number of deaths it caused. Judith Gledhill, of the Thompsons Solicitors, sets out the legal history of the deadly fibre."
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