The Health and Safety Executive is warning tradespeople in the UK about the ‘hidden dangers’ linked to asbestos.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has launched a campaign to raise awareness about the risks associated with asbestos exposure among young workers.

Managers of buildings including schools, hospitals and social housing should urgently review their management plans amid fears that asbestos left in buildings as “safe” could now be in a damaged state.

More than 100,000 UK buildings still need “extensive asbestos remediation”, according to the Asbestos Testing and Consultancy association and the National Organisation of Asbestos Consultants.

Excavation work exposed staff at one of logistics company Eddie Stobart’s sites to asbestos.

A court has handed suspended prison sentences to two former construction company directors for asbestos failings.

A director and a contracts manager of an asbestos management company have been jailed, and their company fined £100,000, after failing to protect workers from exposure.

An influential group of MPs has called on the government to commit to removing all asbestos from public and commercial buildings within 40 years.

A man has received a 12-month sentence, suspended for two years, after he secured a series of demolition jobs by falsifying documents and posing as a registered asbestos-removal specialist.

A new, one-page asbestos risk guide aimed at small construction businesses and tradespeople who work with or disturb building fabric has been launched.

An Innovate UK-funded project has succeeded in recycling cement roof sheets containing chrysotile asbestos into an asbestos-free cement substitute.