The 3rd European Asbestos Forum Conference 25th & 26th Sept
The 3rd European Asbestos Conference is Coming Up Nearly two dozen top speakers from across Europe, the United States, Australia and New Zealand will give exciting, high-level presentations on various aspects of the main theme ‘Asbestos & Industry’. An ideal networking opportunity, the EAF reaches out to all professionals globally. Whether you are in the field of raising awareness, contracting, removing asbestos, training, managing, testing, inspecting or consultancy, denaturalisation, health & safety, law or insurance, etc. There will be interesting and relevant presentations and debates for you to follow and take part in. The EAF formula has proven to be …
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. …
