UK’s Health and Safety Executive forced to take ‘misleading’ asbestos radio ad off air.
UK trade magazine Construction News reports that the Health and Safety Executive’s radio advertising about the number of people killed by asbestos has been ruled as misleading and will be taken off the air following an objection to the fatality statistics used.
The advertising regulator said it had received the criticism from the Asbestos Watchdog about five adverts run by the HSE warning of the dangers of asbestos exposure to tradesmen.
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