Interesting article from The Guardian from 2019 [1], Britain’s death toll from asbestos at crisis level, figures reveal Huge negligence is alleged: [Roger] Ma

Interesting article from The Guardian from 2019 [1], Britain’s death toll from asbestos at crisis level, figures reveal Huge negligence is alleged: [Roger] Maddocks [a lawyer specialising in workplace injuries] said the Factory Inspectorate knew by the end of the 19th century that heavy exposure to asbestos carried the risk of life-threatening respiratory disease and that by the 1960s it was public knowledge that exposure to small amounts of the substance carried the risk of mesothelioma. “Despite that people continued to be exposed, and in many cases heavily exposed, for years if not decades after the mid-60s,” he said. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jul/07/britains-death-toll-from-asbestos-at-crisis-level-figures-reveal https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jul/07/britains-dea... - edited immediately after posting to use the word negligence insteaad of cover-up