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영국 전역에 적어도 1억5천만개의 석면함유 물질이 공공건물에 있는 것으로 밝혀졌으며 이것은 381,398개의 조사를 취합한 결과입니다. 이 자료는 인터액티브 앱으로 나왔는데 석면과 중피종 사망의 다발 지역을 보여줍니다.
지도를 참조하면,
교통사고에 의한 사망율보다 중피종 사망율이 최대 8배 많은 지역 등을 알 수 있습니다.
각 지역을 클릭하면
석면함유 물질의 종류(바닥재, 시멘트, 단열재 등)의 수
석면물질을 함유하고 있는 건물의 수,
중피종 사망자 수
교통사고 사망자 수
등을 볼 수 있습니다.
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Deadly asbestos kills three times as many Britons as road accidents and is rife in hospitals and schools, a new report has warned.
The probe compiled 381,398 separate inspections and found there are at least 150 million asbestos items hidden in public buildings across the UK. The data has been turned into an interactive map that shows the prevalence of asbestos and mesothelioma - an incurable cancer caused by inhaling asbestos fibres - in each area of the country.
Today, we are publishing an interactive map produced from the Asbestos Information CIC research as part of The Mail’s Asbestos: Britain’s Hidden Killer campaign. It is a constituency-by-constituency guide to what asbestos they found, and what state it was in. There are few areas without it in an alarming state.
Researchers used more than 7 million data entries from 381,000 asbestos surveys in order to build up a picture of the prevalence, and condition, of asbestos in the UK. In Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s constituency of Holborn and St Pancras, around 40,000 buildings contain asbestos, with more than half containing the highest risk variety.
Asbestos Information CIC, which compiled the report, is now calling for a national database of asbestos so it can be removed urgently. It is also demanding a new system of certificates, rating buildings from A to G based on their asbestos content, to be displayed publicly like food safety certificates.
At the report’s launch in Westminster this morning, Charles Pickles, of campaign group Airtight on Asbestos, branded the material ‘Britain’s dirty little secret’.
‘We have been in denial as a nation for a long time,’ he said. ‘It is now policy to eradicate asbestos, but it has not yet gone into practice.
‘Asbestos is Britain’s dirty little secret because it’s in all our schools and hospitals and no one knows about it.
‘Understanding the location and condition of asbestos in buildings is vital for the development of a strategy that can lead to the removal of asbestos from all buildings, starting with those that present the greatest risk.’
He added he has a ‘dream’ of an asbestos-free UK by 2065 - and believes it can be achieved.
The fireproof material is found in floor and ceiling tiles, wall insulation, external cladding, sprayed coatings and lift shafts of thousands of public buildings built since the 1960s.
As asbestos ages, it starts to break down, potentially shedding its deadly fibres which can then be inhaled.
The policy of successive governments has been to leave asbestos where it is unless visibly damaged and shedding fibres.
The Mail’s Asbestos: Britain’s Hidden Killer campaign aims to end that policy.
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