- Reference: 2014/3021
- Question by: Jenny Jones
- Meeting date: 10 September 2014
It is over ten years since the Institute of Occupational Medicine did their study on the health impacts of tube dust, which concluded that dust levels were ‘highly unlikely’ to cause serious damage to staff and public. Since then, there have been considerable advances in our understanding of the health impacts of particulate matter. For example, we now know that brake and tyre wear plays a major part in urban road pollution, which may be comparable to tube dust, and the WHO now states that “there is no evidence of a safe level of exposure or a threshold below which...