Post by Toreador on Dec 8, 2022 7:06:45 GMT
The government may well withdraw from EU legal shackles which is not to say they will renounce health and safety laws on asbestos or any other dangerous substance.
I well remember the TV discussions on ther topic back in the late seventies and I remember it going on within the industry which had for years been attempting to manufacture alternative non-asbestos products but it wasn't that easy. Whilst products could be made using alternatives that could produce fire protection they struggled to meet the strength required particularly for the construction industry.
Those discussions usually involved the wailing environmentalists who sat in a television/radio studio protected by asbestos products and who had travelled there in vehicles using a clutch and brake pads containing high levels of asbestos. From memory, these automotive products were among the last to be replaced due to the requirement to function at high friction temperatures.
For many years I was a builder and when I had to give that up I went into selling into the construction industry. Some 15 months later I was asked to join a company that processed sheet and roofing products containing asbestos. Their factory was armed with some of the best technology to prevent asbestos dust and air tests inside the factory showed less content than air outside the factory, miles away. But that didn't alter the fact that many of their employers had been breathing in the stuff for years before there were worthwhile regulations, several of those have died and there may be more to come.
Mrs. T worked as a secretary for one of the major asbestos product manufacturers; she has pleural plaques almost certainly as a result of that. Next week I'm up for chest X-rays looking for potential problems that may be asbetos related; I have pleural plaques and pleural thickening and whilst they may not be responsible for my problem, the pleaural plaques are always likely to present problems.
I well remember the TV discussions on ther topic back in the late seventies and I remember it going on within the industry which had for years been attempting to manufacture alternative non-asbestos products but it wasn't that easy. Whilst products could be made using alternatives that could produce fire protection they struggled to meet the strength required particularly for the construction industry.
Those discussions usually involved the wailing environmentalists who sat in a television/radio studio protected by asbestos products and who had travelled there in vehicles using a clutch and brake pads containing high levels of asbestos. From memory, these automotive products were among the last to be replaced due to the requirement to function at high friction temperatures.
For many years I was a builder and when I had to give that up I went into selling into the construction industry. Some 15 months later I was asked to join a company that processed sheet and roofing products containing asbestos. Their factory was armed with some of the best technology to prevent asbestos dust and air tests inside the factory showed less content than air outside the factory, miles away. But that didn't alter the fact that many of their employers had been breathing in the stuff for years before there were worthwhile regulations, several of those have died and there may be more to come.
Mrs. T worked as a secretary for one of the major asbestos product manufacturers; she has pleural plaques almost certainly as a result of that. Next week I'm up for chest X-rays looking for potential problems that may be asbetos related; I have pleural plaques and pleural thickening and whilst they may not be responsible for my problem, the pleaural plaques are always likely to present problems.
