Includes failures or hazards specifically involving asbestos contamination, release or exposure where dedicated controls for identification, containment, remediation, protection or warning are inadequate, including contaminated council records and asbestos exposure arising during or after a fire.
What is not included
Excludes generic fire, building, workplace or environmental safety deficiencies where asbestos contamination or exposure is not identified.
Excludes unrelated hazardous-substance contamination or exposure without an asbestos component.
Excludes clinical diagnosis or treatment of asbestos-related disease where no ongoing asbestos contamination or exposure-control deficiency is identified.
Excludes ordinary records-management or document-storage deficiencies unless asbestos contamination of the records is the material safety concern.
Trends
Reports over time
Reports mentioning this concern, over time
Reports about this concern issued each year.
* 2026 is projected from reports observed to 7 Sep 2026.
Most frequent recipients
Most frequent recipients
Reports about this concern sent to each recipient.
London Borough of Lambeth1
NHS England1
West Sussex County Council1
English county council1
Executive non-departmental public body1
London borough council1
Reports and published responses 2 reports
See individual reports that have raised this concern, and the actions taken in response
West Sussex
Concerns raised2
Potential asbestos-fibre contamination of council records
Risk of asbestos exposure from contaminated council records
Linked responses
London Borough of Lambeth
West Sussex County Council
Stated actions An action is something a respondent says it has done, is doing, or plans to do in response to the concern raised.3
London Borough of Lambeth
Commission and complete asbestos inspections, laboratory testing and air sampling of representative Registrar’s records at all three storage locations.
West Sussex County Council
Conduct asbestos air monitoring in strong rooms 4 and 5 where the registers are stored.
West Sussex County Council
Sample and analyse dust from strong rooms 4 and 5 for asbestos contamination.
Respondent positions A position is what a respondent says about the concern when they do not describe a specific action.3
London Borough of Lambeth
Inspections found no asbestos contamination or associated risk in Registrar’s records, so further asbestos-related action is not proposed.
Disputes the concernThe respondent disagreed with part of the concern or the basis for it.
West Sussex County Council
Testing found no asbestos in dust or airborne fibres, so contact with the registers does not present an apparent asbestos exposure risk.
Disputes the concernThe respondent disagreed with part of the concern or the basis for it.
West Sussex County Council
No further action is required regarding the storage location or registers because monitoring and dust sampling found no asbestos risk.
No action considered necessaryThe respondent said that no further action was needed.
Inner West London
Concerns raised1
Potential asbestos exposure causing late-onset health conditions
This report raised 5 other concerns. They are not shown here because they do not form part of this recurring concern.
No linked response statements
No respondent-stated action or position is linked to these concerns in the published data.
Actions and positions describe what organisations say in published responses. Implementation is not independently verified.
Actions and positions describe what organisations say in published responses. Implementation is not independently verified.