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Industrial Diseases can be an insidious aspect of work. In cases of Asbestos exposure, symptoms of a disease can take decades to manifest, and can often prove fatal. If your employer didn’t manage the risks, withheld the necessary PPE or improper training in dealing with dangerous substances or practices, you may be able to claim. Contact our team to discuss injury compensation from employer negligence.

Asbestos and Industrial Diseases: Making a Claim
Posted: 25 January 2016
Posted in: Asbestos Exposure, Industrial Deafness and Disease, Mesothelioma
Thousands of people are injured each year in the workplace with many more suffering illnesses later in life as a result of exposure to dangerous chemicals and substances in their place of work. Asbestos related illnesses and industrial illnesses can take between 10-40 years to develop but can have a lasting effect on your quality of life. Your employer has a duty of care to protect you and your fellow employees, however, if they fail to do this then you could be entitled to take legal action. Exposure to asbestos…
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Asbestos in School Must be Eradicated
Posted: 13 July 2015
Posted in: Asbestos Exposure, Industrial Deafness and Disease, Mesothelioma, School Accidents
A senior Union member has called for the government to eradicate asbestos from schools once and for all following a report into the conditions of education centres. According to a report, asbestos remains present in 86% of schools leading to “unnecessary deaths”. The National Union of Teachers has accused the Government of failing “to address the legacy of asbestos in schools” and said it is a “scandal” that the Government have failed to address the serious issue that affects teachers and young children. Asbestos Illnesses Statistics from the Health and…
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Asbestos Victim's Family Take Up Legal Fight Against Factory
Posted: 24 March 2015
Posted in: Asbestos Exposure, Industrial Deafness and Disease, Mesothelioma, Wrongful & Accidental Death
The family of a woman who died from cancer caused by workplace asbestos are trying to contact former workers at the same factory to take up legal action. Frances Hamilton died last year after being diagnosed with mesothelioma, a form of cancer caused by consumption or exposure to asbestos fibres and chemicals. The 75-year-old had worked at the Templeton carpet factory in Glasgow from the late 50s for around 15 years, and her family believe that it was at this factory that she was exposed to the poisonous fibres that…
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Mesothelioma: Not a Problem of the Past
Posted: 2 September 2014
Posted in: Asbestos Exposure, Industrial Deafness and Disease, Mesothelioma
James Cant, head of British Lung Foundation Scotland has made clear that the effects of asbestos are still very much a part of Scotland and should be afforded greater attention. Mr Cant outlined that while the shipyards, coal-mines and steel works have long gone, the legacy of industrial disease lives on. At the height of Scotland’s industrial period, thousands of young workers were exposed to the dangerous substance asbestos without and protective equipment. In previous years very little was known about the disease and we are only now beginning to…
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Mesothelioma Compensation to be Reviewed Again After "maladroit" Consultation by Government
Posted: 6 August 2014
Posted in: Asbestos Exposure, Industrial Deafness and Disease, Mesothelioma
The Justice Committee has condemned the Government’s review of mesothelioma claims and called on the Government to carry out the consultation again. The consultation carried out under section 48 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) was not prepared in a thorough and even-handed manner according to the Justice Committee, and thus they have called on the Government to undertake a fresh consultation. Furthermore the Justice Committee have commented on other matters to do with the mesothelioma claims process; The Committee urges expedition of the…
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Academics Criticise HSE Safeguards against toxic workplace dust
Posted: 24 July 2014
Posted in: Employer Negligence, Industrial Deafness and Disease
A failure by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to introduce adequate safeguards against toxic workplace dust mean workers are being put at risk of contracting lung cancer or other respiratory diseases say experts. The Scottish university academics have the HSE regarding its recommended safe level of exposure to the substance crystalline silica, a powder created when working with bricks, concrete and plaster. Silica is second biggest cause of occupational cancer deaths after asbestos and exposure to the substance can cause a range of other illnesses including silicosis, tuberculosis, kidney…
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Company Held Accountable for Employees' Permanent Nerve Damage
Posted: 9 May 2014
Posted in: Hand Injuries, Industrial Deafness and Disease, Workplace Injuries
A firm has been fined for failing to protect its workers from exposure to high levels of hand arm vibration (HAV) resulting in permanent vibration-related conditions and health issues. Babcock Flagship Ltd hadn’t properly assessed the vibration risks faced by staff carrying out ground maintenance at a naval base in Cornwall and failed to implement controls to limit exposure to machinery such as hedge cutters and strimmers. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that employees could regularly work eight hours a day using the same tools, which aggravated their…
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Gov plans support for asbestos industrial disease victims
Posted: 14 March 2014
Posted in: Asbestos Exposure, Industrial Deafness and Disease, Mesothelioma
Sufferers of a deadly industrial disease in England and Wales will be the focus of work to improve the compensation claims process for them, the Government has announced. The Government has responded to its consultation on measures to help victims of mesothelioma – a condition which often develops decades after the sufferer has been exposed to asbestos but usually kills within months of being diagnosed. The response follows the consultation last year on improving the compensation claims process for mesothelioma victims. Justice Minister, Lord Faulks said the Ministry of Justice…
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Occupational Hazards Resulting in Industrial Disease
Posted in: Industrial Deafness and Disease, Workplace Injuries
Industrial diseases are illnesses that you contract as a result of long-term exposure to an occupational hazard in the workplace. The key to a successful industrial disease claim is the fact that your employer has been negligent in leaving you exposed to something that has destroyed your health and quality of life. Often through a lack of PPE or training. Examples of industrial disease include but are not restricted too: Asbestosis Mesothelioma Secondary exposure to asbestos Pleural Plaques Diffuse Pleural Thickening Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS) Vibration White Finger (VWF)…
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