Product Innovation Award for Asbestos Alert From Building Solutions UK
Alert Technology are happy to share that we were presented with a Product Innovation award by construction industry press Building Solutions UK for the Asbestos ALERT at the recent Contamination Expo. This recognition from the construction industry was a great end to a really positive show in which Asbestos ALERT received high levels of interest and had one of the busiest stands at the show. Dr Chris Stopford from the University of Hertfordshire gave a very well attended seminar on the science behind Alert’s technology which generated a lot of interest. Alert has now come away with a database of …
ALERT – An Asbestos Detector That Could Save Lives
Once embraced as the “miracle mineral” for its tough, flexible, fireproof qualities, asbestos is now seen as a killer. It is blamed for the deaths of thousands from lung diseases like the aggressive, cruel chest cancer mesothelioma, and is currently banned in 54 countries. Yet asbestos is still with us. Exposure from legacy asbestos products like insulation is the leading cause of work related deaths worldwide, and until now there has been no way of detecting the lethal presence of asbestos fibres in the air. That is changing thanks to a European research project to develop an asbestos detection device. …