ASBESTOS PROTECTION
February 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLCOMPANIES, especially construction firms, will have to review their asbestos worker protection procedures, following the agreement by the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers of an updated directive on the subject. The new rules, also backed by the European Parliament, introduce a single maximum average airborne exposure in excess of 0.1 fibres per cm3 measured over eight hours. They also include regulations on how to detect asbestos fibres and on training in how to deal with them. And they introduced tightened controls on the extraction, ...
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