Following the Dresden Declaration at the asbestos conference in 2003, the Senior Labour Inspectors’ Committee (SLIC) took the initiative for a common Europe-wide Campaign in order to increase the attention to health and safety when dealing with built-in asbestos. This initiative, launched on 1 September 2006, is supported by the European Commission and will be carried out in cooperation between SLIC and the Advisory Committee on Safety and Health at Work (ACSH). The main focus of the campaign is on the protection of workers in maintenance-demolition-removal activities and waste disposal.
