Reports have confirmed HSE’s estimates of occupational cancer risks fall way short. Hazards says the watchdog should get its act together before another working generation pays with their lives. According to Hazards: “Victims, meanwhile, continue to lose out – missed by prevention efforts and missed by the compensation system. Even HSE’s current estimate says 310 males die each year from occupational bladder cancer, whereas each year only about 20 workers receive DWP industrial injuries benefit for the condition. At least 95 per cent of all asbestos related lung cancers go uncompensated under this scheme.”

Hazards 99, July – September 2007.