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Silicosis a Rare but Potentially Harmful Disease

KENTUCKY (10/27/16) — In recent decades, much has been done to improve workplace safety. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration instituted one such effort by requiring protective equipment to be used in the workplace. That resolution aimed to limit silica...
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Give us Rs 4 lakh while alive: Silicosis patients

JAIPUR: A group of silicosis patients will sit on indefinite dharna outside the office of the Jodhpur district collector from Friday. The patients are seeking that the government release compensation money in time, since they suffer a disease that cannot be cured....
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Jodhpur silicosis patients assured compensation in 10 days

JAIPUR: Patients with silicosis, whose compensation money had still not been released, on Friday met district collector Bishnu Mallick of Jodhpur. "We had decided to sit on an indefinite dharna, but the collector assured us today that the money would be released in a...
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43 silicosis patients to get compensation soon

JAIPUR: Silicosis patients were accompanied by social activists as they met district collector Tina Kumar at Badnor panchayat in Bhilwara district on Friday. Earlier, 103 people who had received certificates from the Pneumoconiosis Board showing that they had...
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सिलिकोसिस की जांच के लिए सक्रिय हुआ महकमा

सिलिकोसिस को लेकर स्वास्थ्य महकमा अब नींद से जागते हुए प्रभावित ग्रामीण क्षेत्रों में स्वास्थ्य शिविर लगाकर स्वास्थ्य कैम्प लगाने की रणनीति तैयार की गई है। समाचार प्रकाशित करने के बाद मेडिकल कॉलेज डीन की उपस्थिति में स्वास्थ्य महकमा की गत दिवस एक बैठक आहूत कर प्रभावित...
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‘Pollution pay’ for Panasonic’s expat staff in China

by | Mar 14, 2014 | News | 0 Comments

BEIJING: Electronics maker Panasonic Corp has announced it would compensate its Japanese employees for living with heavy smog and pollution in China amid reports that many foreigners were leaving the country due to it. So-called hardship pay is not unusual for...

Support for asbestos victims in Germany

by | Mar 8, 2014 | News | 0 Comments

by Laurie Kazan-Allen During the 20th century, up to 9.5 million tonnes of asbestos were consumed in Germany, with annual usage peaking around 1980 at 440,000 tonnes.1 Three decades later, thousands of Germans with asbestos-related diseases find themselves caught up...

Association for the Rights of Industrial Accident Victims

by | Mar 8, 2014 | News | 0 Comments

From: No More Asbestos in Hong Kong Alliance (NMAHKA) Date: March 5, 2014 Silent protest to MTR The New Zealand KiwiRail locomotives have been found to contain asbestos, Hong Kong media exposed that Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway (MTR) has imported the same series of...

Give reasons reasons for delay in relief: HRC

by | Mar 8, 2014 | News | 0 Comments

INDORE: Taking an exception to the deaths from silicosis in Panna, the National Human Rights Commission ( NHRC) issued a notice on Thursday to the chief secretary asking him to explain the reasons for not giving relief to the kin of the deceased on time. The state...