Back in 2011 a deadly earthquake hit Japan and caused a critical melt down of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. After the Fukushima disaster more than 44,000 people worked to safely take the Fukushima Daiichi offline, while exposing themselves to radiation.
4 years after the disaster doctors have just diagnosed the first case radiation related cancer. It has been announced that the worker has Acute Myelogenous leukaemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. It has been confirmed that the cancer is directly related to the work that he carried out cleaning up the plant.
TEPCO , have outlined all the attempts it has made to limit the account of radiation exposure to their workers during the clean-up missions . This is the first diagnosis of cancer linking directly to the clean-up missions, however, it has been reported that over 400,000 people under the age of 18, in the Fukushima area have thyroid cancer.
When Working around radiation, it is important that the amount of radiation the workers are exposed too are minial, and that safety regulations are strictly followed inclucding the use of safety signs.
Here at Label source we stock a huge range of Personal Protection Safety Signs and radiation signs which remind workers of the correct safety precautions they need to take to work safely in areas where there is high risk of exposure.
We also have a large variety of radiation signs designed alert workers, and visitors of possible exposure risks
Here at label source we pride ourselves on having a large range of labels always available and in stock, however, in the unlikely event that you can not find the exact label that you require please contact us on 0800 3761 693 or email info@labelsource.co.uk.
