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Old 26-07-2005, 10:41 AM
Nick Maclaren
 
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Mike Lyle wrote:
Mike wrote:

I used to work in a steel heat treatment factory where asbestos
wool was commonly used as an insulator.
I used to have to stuff it into the required areas - masks were
optional ! (the sixties)


I worked in a shipyard in the Boiler Rooms of the ships being

built.
Pipes being lagged with dry asbestos and wet asbestos, stuff mixed

up
with water to apply in great handfulls. we had snowball fights with
the stuff. Masks? What were they? 1950's and much to the owners of
the newsgroup I am still here.

PC State gone tooooo far


What a relief to read the sane views of a trained epidemiologist.


That is exactly what the asbestos experts say. There was a furore
after jobs with such negligible protection but using BLUE asbestos
killed several people, so our wonderful, so-scientific Lords and
Masters introduced regulations that treated all asbestos the same
way. This has since then supported the economy by requiring
expensive removal contracts for the massive amounts of the almost
harmless white asbestos.

We got the same thing recently when new regulations place the same
conditions on the carriage of compressed nitrogen and argon/nitrogen
as on compressed hydrogen or compressed chlorine. Yes, really.

Yes, white asbestos is harmful if you breath it, but only a little
more than glass fibre (one of its replacements) and, if I understand,
LESS than road tar fumes.

Personally, I find my radium watchchain is not only a great
talking-point at parties but has contributed enormously to my general
health.


Doubtless. The use of radioactives in watches was abolished because
it was applied by hand and the workers used to lick the end of their
brushes to dampen them. Even bulk radioactives are unimportant until
you ingest them.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.