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Jamie Hailstone is a freelance journalist and author, who has also contributed to numerous national business titles including Utility Week, the Municipal Journal, Environment Journal and consumer titles such as Classic Rock.
March 29, 2019
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The international 15th Annual Asbestos Disease Awareness Week runs this year between 1 and 7 April.
The annual event is organised by the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organisation (ADAO) and will focus on preventing asbestos exposure, strengthening international partnerships and banning the mining, manufacture and use of the hazardous substance.
It will culminate on April 7 with an online, worldwide candlelight vigil.
The week-long event also once again feature the 30-second animated public service announcement video “Asbestos: The Killer You Can’t See” that captures the tragic reality about deadly asbestos.
The video reveals how a young girl loses her father to asbestos, highlighting the insidious and nearly invisible fibres.
The video is also available in five other languages, including Russian, Hindi and Spanish to order to reach nations who continue to mine, use and export asbestos.
Asbestos is a known carcinogen and there is no safe level of exposure.
Since the 19th century, asbestos was widely used in construction, shipbuilding, and the automotive industry.
Nearly 200,000 people die each year from preventable asbestos-caused diseases.
Since its founding in 2004, ADAO has worked with the U.S. Senate to unanimously pass fifteen Asbestos Awareness Week Resolutions and secured five U.S. Surgeon General asbestos warnings in an effort to prevent exposure, to help eliminate deadly asbestos-caused diseases.
“We are excited to bring our educational messages to an even wider audience by collaborating once again with McOnie an award-winning U.K. based public relations agency, that expand our ability to distribute our messages globally,” said Linda Reinstein, mesothelioma widow and ADAO co-founder.
“The simple truth is asbestos kills and prevention remains the only cure. Asbestos-caused diseases like mesothelioma can take years, even decades, to kill, but the hidden risk of asbestos fibres only takes a few heartbeats to tell.”
In this episode of the Safety & Health Podcast, ‘Burnout, stress and being human’, Heather Beach is joined by Stacy Thomson to discuss burnout, perfectionism and how to deal with burnout as an individual, as management and as an organisation.
We provide an insight on how to tackle burnout and why mental health is such a taboo subject, particularly in the workplace.
15th Annual Asbestos Disease Awareness Week launchesThe annual event is organised by the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organisation (ADAO) and will focus on preventing asbestos exposure, strengthening international partnerships and banning the mining, manufacture and use of the hazardous substance.
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Chris H
5 years ago
Asbestos awareness should be imparted to all those who are working with asbestos.
Asbestos awareness should be imparted to all those who are working with asbestos.