Widow urges tradesmen to take precautions against asbestos

Wigan, UK - A Wigan widow is supporting the warnings released by the Health and Safety Executive telling the public that the asbestos health crisis is not over.

Marjorie Catterall, whose husband died nearly five years ago from asbestosis, is now an important member of the Mesothelioma Action Group. Her husband, Tom, had lived for only four months after he was diagnosed with the disease, which he had developed as a result of exposure to asbestos during his working days.

Mrs. Catterall said tradesmen should be aware that the material still exists within a large of percentage of buildings built or refurbished before 2000, and she urges them to take all possible safety precautions to prevent being exposed to it. She said she didn't want anymore people to suffer through what she saw her husband experienced, citing he was no longer his healthy and energetic self within weeks of diagnosis.

HSE reports show that between 1981 and 2000, 86 people in Wigan only died from mesothelioma, and it's believed the number of deaths each year continues to rise. Those victims were among the 2,431 deaths reported across the North West for that period of time.

Health experts warn that it takes only one inhaled asbestos fiber to cause mesothelioma, a lung cancer that doesn't show symptoms until decades after exposure. It is estimated that about half a million non-domestic buildings in the country currently contains asbestos.

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