Tried the prohibition of imports and to implement widespread industrial use of asbestos in the United Kingdom for much of the twentieth century a tedious tedious and slow history been. It serves a clear picture of the implicit reluctance by employers to accept to give growing medical and legislative asbestos awareness of the serious health risks attached to continued exposure to asbestos.
For many thousand employees in the shipyards, railways, textile mills, car factories, construction, and many other industries, where blue, Brown and white asbestos has been used extensively, which is häufenden notes held often hidden and the terrible consequences only come up to 50 years later to light if the first Mesothelioma or asbestosis symptoms would appear.
The use of asbestos as a cheap, flexible and highly effective heat insulating material retained up to the 1980s and 1990s years. This was despite the first asbestos regulations 1969 only 'Asbestos contact to manage', but at least was the first time the deadly fibers as a risk to workers declared positive. It was not until fourteen years later, in 1983, the asbestos was (Licensing) regulations introduced the HSE (health and Safety Executive) license for anyone working with asbestos coating or asbestos insulation products required.
Meanwhile the increased due to a long latency, the number of deaths of asbestos-related diseases at an alarming rate with mesothelioma claims for damages brought by the victim's families. The research showed that male mesothelioma deaths of 1968 from about 32,000, with the total number of deaths in men still increase the overall number of the observed even as late as 2008 changed, almost 60,000.
For the first time an attempt to prohibit the import and use of dangerous forms of asbestos, crocidolite (blue asbestos) and Amosite (brown asbestos), was in the 1985 UK asbestos (Prohibition). And while colonial city regulations, introduced control of asbestos at work to ensure stricter controls in the prevention of risks from exposure to asbestos at work, it was not until 1992, that the use of white chrysotile asbestos ban law from seven years previously added that was banned originally blue and Brown types.
Although the HSE license requirement in place for any work that had been products coating or insulation with asbestos since 1983, it took another 15 years to asbestos (Licensing) regulations were amended to AIB (asbestos insulation Board) to integrate in 1998. Control of asbestos at work regulations were changed in 1993 to the substitution of asbestos to force any material where it was possible.
Only one year before the end of the twentieth century saw a 1999 ruling, the complete prohibition on the use and import of chrysotile used as late as the 1980s and 1990s in construction materials and products.
Over to the second millennium, in 2002 the "duty to manage" policy was introduced, further protection from risks related to exposure to asbestos at work made available. A year later, asbestos were amended in 2003 (Licensing) regulations again to ensure the competent authority about the details of each asbestos work would be notified, a license, at least 14 days prior to beginning the work required.
Finally, some were 170 years after asbestos in first, introduced in the United Kingdom all was rolled previous ban and licensing requirements in a comprehensive control of asbestos regulations, 2006.
