In 2022, a group of accredited consultancies researched and released the first annual data analysis report into asbestos in UK buildings.
The survey was conducted over a six-month period from October 2021 to March 2022. The information gathered from more than a million data points from 128,000 buildings produced some shocking top-line statistics.
Clearly, more needs to be done to identify, track, manage and remove instances of disturbed and undisturbed asbestos. Specific measures also need to be set in motion to reduce the number of asbestos-related deaths within our population, which remain at unacceptably high levels.