TUC Risks 6th October 2007 reported that a campaign set up in memory of Prospect member Roger Lowe is drawing attention to the deadly dangers posed by asbestos exposure.
The daughters and wife of the dockyard electrical fitter, who died aged 68 from the asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma in December 2005, have founded a support group in his name. Daughter Jackie told a public meeting in Plymouth this week they did not want anyone to go through the trauma they suffered alone.
The city, with its dockyard where the material was widely used, has been identified as the UK's fourth largest 'hotspot' for the disease, with 320 people dying from mesothelioma caused by asbestos between 1985 and 2004.
Cases are expected to peak between 2011 and 2015, as the condition takes between 30 to 40 years to emerge. Global asbestos ban plan
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