That lack of care for local workers has resulted in the biggest industrial compensation case in legal history.
Although recent research has suggested that dangers from the deadly dust, Asbestos, were known as early as the 1930s, workers remained generally unaware that exposure to asbestos fibres could cost them their lives.
The stories of shipyard workers having 'snowball' fights with asbestos while working down below in the bowels of ships are legion.
While such images make us shudder nowadays, there was ten no general realisation that breathing in asbestos could result in the killer disease, mesothelioma. This ignorance was compounded by the fact that mesothelioma is a disease which can lie dormant in the lungs for decades.
The new Mesothelioma Bill means those affected by the condition can claim up to 75 per cent of the total compensation available through a civil court claim. The said fact is that asbestos has already claimed many lives - and will continue to do so for years to come.
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