Sixth Report - The Health and Safety Executive’s approach to asbestos management
Select Committee
Work and Pensions Committee
HC 560
21 April 2022
Government Response (AI assessment · 27 of 27 classified)
Accepted
6
Acknowledged
15
Deferred
1
Rejected
3
Recommendations
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Conclusions (1) Observations and findings — click to expand
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Conclusion
Deferred
Para 14
Asbestos-related illness is one of the great workplace tragedies of modern times. Extensive use of asbestos in the twentieth century accounts for many thousands of deaths. The extreme exposures of the mid- to late twentieth century may be behind us, but its legacy lives on. Asbestos remains in many of …
Government Response Summary
HSE's Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 (CAR) Post Implementation Review (PIR) will be published later this year and HSE is developing its plan of work to take forward areas from the PIR and will consider using recommendations from the inquiry to inform this work.