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It has long been assumed that asbestos does not move through soil. That belief led abatement professionals to bury asbestos-laden wastes and soils under a cap of clean soil. Now that assumption is challenged by a study led by Jane Willenbring of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California along with Sanjay …
‘Even if the Canadian government were to ban all asbestos use tomorrow, this country will be dealing with the legacy of its love affair with the deadly mineral for decades, perhaps centuries, to come.” This shocking statement is from an article by Michelle Lalonde in the Montreal Gazette. The incubation time for asbestos disease to …
Asbestos has been a killer for decades. The first wave of victims was miners and plant workers. Wave number two killed many shipbuilders, boiler workers, and insulators. Now the third wave has hit. These victims were not those who worked with asbestos-laden products as they were being produced and installed. These are workers encountering old …
In the past, actuarial tables in British Columbia (B.C.) predicted asbestos-related deaths would peak between 2015 and 2020. However, due to new statistical information, WorkSafeBC recently recognized the rise in fatalities will continue much longer than anticipated. While accidents due to traumatic injuries have decreased 68 percent since 1990, workplace deaths due to disease – …
Fedor Zarkhin, writer for The Oregonian|OregonLive, wrote an article, “Unsettling dust: Hundreds of Portland homes demolished with asbestos inside,” this week. It exposed poor demolition practices in the tear-down of hundreds of Portland homes. While Oregon regulations require asbestos removal by licensed contractors, the rules are weak and few contractors even know they exist. With …
