The cowboy removal of damaged asbestos roofs after the November 2014 hail in Brisbane has created a significant Workplace and Public Health incident.
Asbestos
CBS News in Canada has a disturbinbg video of the use use of Canadian chrysotile asbestos in India. No effective respiratory protection was seen to be used in the dusty workplace where asbestos was spun.
“Canada’s Ugly Secret”
I couldn’t resist this one. The super hero Asbestos Lady had the special power of having a fire proof costume. Its from The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson.
Asbestos Lady
What you see is not what you get. The paper: Stayner, L., E. Kuempel, et al. (2008). “An epidemiological study of the role of chrysotile asbestos fibre dimensions in determining respiratory disease risk in exposed workers.” Occup Environ Med 65(9): 613-619.
Asbestos fibre size
A case-control study (622 cases, 1420 controls) by Professor Julian Peto and others and funded by the UK HSE “A Occupational, domestic and environmental mesothelioma risks in Britain” has just been released.
2009 UK Mesothelioma Study
It seems that products from Asia containing asbestos are creeping into our supermarkets. These posts are from the UKOH listserver.