Who is likely to suffer from asbestos disease?

Shipyard workers, including many engineering and construction trades

Railway workshop workers, especially those who have worked on insulation of carriages.

Manufacturing Most asbestos production ceased in the 1970s, but prior to that, asbestos products were manufactured for the home, industry and construction in huge quantities. Cape plc and Turner and Newall were two of the largest manufacturers of asbestos products.

Asbestos laggers and sprayers applied asbestos, e.g. to boilers, pipes, steel work etc, in buildings, ships, railway carriages and countless other locations.

Construction plumbers, joiners, bricklayers, roofers, painters and labourers will have worked with asbestos products often without realising it. Also site engineers and surveyors.

Engineering workers including pipe & maintenance fitters, engineering trades using asbestos products.

Dockers and Transport workers unloading and conveying asbestos.

Other workers who have worked nearby when asbestos was used or disturbed.

Non workers may also be affected by asbestos. People living near to asbestos factories and families of asbestos workers who bring dust home on their overalls.