Global asbestos ban plan

TUC Risks 6th October 2007 reported that top international agencies are pushing forward with a plan for a worldwide asbestos ban.

While asbestos is banned throughout the EU and in a number of other countries, usage of the fatal fibre in some developing nations has been increasing. Now the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have prepared an 'Outline for the development of national programmes for elimination of asbestos-related diseases.'

ILO says: 'This Outline has been developed to give effect to the ILO 2006 resolution on asbestos adopted by the International Labour Conference in June 2006 and to the WHO position paper on elimination of asbestos related diseases. The document is intended to assist countries in establishing their national programmes for the elimination of asbestos-related diseases (NPEAD). It is a tool for increasing policy coherence for reducing and finally phasing out the use of asbestos and asbestos-containing materials.'

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