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Annual Global Asbestos Awareness Week launches

The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) has launched the 14th Annual Global Asbestos Awareness Week (GAAW), which runs until April 7.

The week-long event is dedicated to awareness and prevention, with each day featuring educational resources from various organizations in six different languages. The week culminates on April 7 with an online, worldwide candlelight vigil.

Global Asbestos Awareness Week 2018

Building on the issues of strength and collaboration, this year’s Global Asbestos Awareness Week will focus on:

  • Banning the mining, manufacturing, and use of asbestos
  • Preventing asbestos exposure
  • Increasing compliance and enforcement of existing laws and regulations
  • Strengthening international partnerships

This year, the event will feature a 30-second animated YouTube video, entitled “Asbestos: The Killer You Can’t See,” that captures the tragic reality about deadly asbestos.

Through hand-drawn animation by Chocolate Moose Media (CMM), the video reveals how a young girl loses her father to asbestos, highlighting the insidious and nearly invisible fibres.

Video: Asbestos Awareness PSA: The Killer You Can't See (Multiple Languages)

Click to see the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC3nK10Ic58

“We are excited to bring our educational messages to an even wider audience by collaborating again with McOnie, an award winning U.K. based public relations firm, who are expanding our ability to distribute our messages globally,” said Linda Reinstein, mesothelioma widow and ADAO co-founder.

“The simple truth is asbestos kills and prevention remains the only cure. Asbestos-caused diseases like mesothelioma can take years, even decades, to kill, but the hidden risk of asbestos fibres only takes a few heartbeats to tell.”

Asbestos statistics

Asbestos is the biggest occupational cancer killer in the world and around 5,000 people die every year from work-related asbestos exposure in the UK alone.

More than 60 countries, including the UK and the rest of the European Union have banned its use and have laws in place to protect workers and others who may be exposed from it.

But asbestos is still used and imported into many countries and there are still thousands of tonnes of asbestos-containing materials (ACMs) in many buildings.

The Institution of Occupational and Safety Health (IOSH) will be launching the asbestos phase of its No Time To Lose campaign next week, on April 9.

IOSH are also organising a “thunder clap” on social media to raise awareness of the issue. Take part in the “thunder clap” here.

For more information, visit www.asbestosdiseaseawareness.org

Article by – shponline

Asbestos Awareness online
  • Venue: Online
  • Course code: OLAA
  • Course duration: 1 – 2 hours
  • Course Audience: All levels of employees who may undertake or plan work that may be carried out in buildings and premises. This will also be beneficial for personnel responsible for the management of buildings and premises.
  • Instructor student ratio: N/A

Course Aim
This course is specifically designed to help organisations and individuals meet their legal obligation to train employees whose work could lead to exposure to asbestos containing materials (ACMs). The regulations require that employers must ensure employees have undergone suitable asbestos awareness training so that they are aware of the potential dangers they may face and the procedures they must follow regarding ACMs.