742,000 dead a year … Not a warzone … Not a natural disaster … BUT the world’s workplaces.
Cancer caused by work exposure to carcinogenic substances accounts for more deaths than work accidents, but it is an avoidable cancer. In the UK alone, almost 14,000 new cases of cancer are registered a year – 4,000 because of asbestos, and 10,000 linked to exposures from silica dust to diesel fumes. Workers risk getting lung, skin or bladder cancer because of what they do for a living, and thousands will die as a result. But with understanding of the risks and the correct equipment to use, this can be prevented.
Many employers are unaware of the impact of carcinogenic exposure … and many don’t know what to do about it.
The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, IOSH’s “No Time to Lose” campaign aims to get the causes of occupational cancer more widely understood.
Tower Supplies offers free workplace resources to help organisations educate to beat occupational cancer – timely as it’s World Lung Cancer Day on 1st August.
Contact Tower for a free factsheet about Silica Dust and the dangers of it.
Breathing in asbestos dust today can lead to fatal diseases in 20 to 40 years time. What sort of future can your colleagues look forward to? Contact Tower for our free workplace poster.
Health is not to be sniffed at – diesel engine fumes can kill. Don’t let fumes be a death sentence – if your respiratory protection equipment doesn’t fit, it doesn’t work! Talk to Tower.
Companies prioritising the health and wellbeing of their workforce deserve a PPE supplier like Tower.
mark.dowling@towersupplies.com | 01202 305518
This article is featured in the August edition of the Dorset Business Focus magazine. Read on the online version here.