Asbestos or not? How to tell the difference

  It can be very difficult to tell if you have asbestos in your property. Whilst asbestos is a huge danger to human health it is also often misunderstood, and this means that you could be living with the material in your property for a long time without...

Do you need asbestos air testing?

Whenever a property contains asbestos, and that asbestos is disturbed, fibres can be released into the atmosphere. And it is here that they can be harmful to human health. This means that before it is safe to re-use the property it may be necessary to have asbestos...

Should we still worry about asbestos?

Following the recent release of the Health & Safety Executive’s (HSE) report, asbestos-related deaths are currently at an all-time high, having almost doubled since 1995. As such, Britain’s death toll from asbestos is said to be at a ‘crisis level’, with 2,523...

Six unexpected places to find asbestos

Back in early June 2019, the US Food and Drug Administration issued a safety alert warning people to stop using the Claire’s Jojo Siwa Makeup Set. This was because the product was found to have tested positive for asbestos, which led us to thinking: what other...

Three more myths about asbestos

Asbestos is scary stuff. After all, it’s not only illegal to use, but it’s also dangerous to human health. Knowing your stuff about asbestos – what it is, how to identify it, why it’s so dangerous – is therefore incredibly important. That said, a number of myths still...