asbestos exposure Articles
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Lung cancer and mesothelioma in towns with environmental exposure to asbestos in Eastern Anatolia
Objective: Our previous study demonstrated the presence of environmental tremolite and chrysotile asbestos fiber exposure in Hekimhan town in Malatya located in eastern Turkey. The aim of this study was to investigate whether environmental asbestos exposure increases the incidence of lung cancer and mesothelioma. Method: One hundred and forty-nine patients with mesothelioma and lung cancer living ...
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Asbestos Exposure and Your Job: At-Risk Occupations, Industries and Locations
Exposure to asbestos fibers can cause asbestos-related diseases including mesothelioma cancer and others. A potentially dangerous exposure can result from very small fibers at low exposure levels. Most such exposure would likely have occurred prior to the 1980s, but the latency period can be up to 40 years for most asbestos-related cancers to develop. (See more information on screening.) ...
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How to deal with asbestos exposure in your workplace: advice for industrial workers
At one point, more than 75 different industries exposed workers to asbestos. Even though these industries have been made safer by regulations from the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety, many workers still come in contact with asbestos products that remain at their jobsites. Although most industrial employees face some form of asbestos exposure risks during their career, ...
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Asbestos Diseases
What happens when we breathe? When we take a deep breath, the air goes down the wind-pipe (or trachea) into the middle of the chest. There the trachea divides into two, then four, then eight - and finally, hundreds of thousands of little airways (or bronchi and bronchioles) in each lung. At the end of each airway is a tiny sac (or alveolus.) Healthy lungs have hundreds of millions of these ...
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Asbestos exposure and your job: at-risk occupations, industries and locations
Exposure to asbestos fibers can cause asbestos-related diseases including mesothelioma cancer and others. A potentially dangerous exposure can result from very small fibers at low exposure levels. Most such exposure would likely have occurred prior to the 1980s, but the latency period can be up to 40 years for most asbestos-related cancers to develop. Many people have come into contact with ...
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How to Deal with Asbestos Exposure in Your Workplace: Advice for Managers
Industrial mangers are faced with hundreds of responsibilities each day. Ensuring worker safety should be at the top of their priority list – especially when it comes to asbestos. Do you work in management at a construction site or industrial occupation? Here’s what you can do to promote asbestos safety: Conduct daily or periodic monitoring. Unless a manager can demonstrate that ...
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How to Deal with Asbestos Exposure in your Workplace – Advice for Industrial Building Owners
Building owners play one of the primary roles in preventing asbestos exposure at the workplace. When constructing a building – or leasing out an existing facility that contains asbestos – building owners can take several steps that ensure safety on the premesis. Only purchase asbestos-free building materials for renovations or new construction. Despite its known health hazards, ...
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Absestos Firm Pins Hope to an RV off eBay
On weekends, or whenever Simona Farrise finds time, she likes to go bargain-hunting on eBay and at garage sales near her home in the Oakland hills. She once picked up a 60-year-old occupational safety manual, a document the lawyer later used in civil trials to show that American auto companies long ago knew—or should have known—about health hazards caused by asbestos exposure. Farrise paid 50 ...
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Asbestos in the Home and School
This section discusses the presence of asbestos in houses, rental apartments, schools and other public buildings, and has a list of useful EPA contacts. Does Your House Contain Asbestos? It is very common for homes built or remodeled before the 1970's to have asbestos-containing materials in them. During the twentieth century, about 30 million tons of asbestos fiber were used in the ...
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Increasing asbestos awareness as a preventative measure
Asbestos is a naturally occuring mineral known for its durability and fire-resistant properties. In the past, the substance has been used in a wide variety of building materials, including insulation products, siding, cements, flooring and roofing, to name a few. When asbestos containing materials become damaged or disturbed, toxic asbestos fibers can be released into the air. If these ...
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Making a List and Checking It Twice: A Precautionary Approach to Schools
In autumn 2004, parents, teachers, and children were doing what they typically do at that time of year - namely, preparing to return to school. Others, however, were preparing for the school year in a different way. The Coalition for Healthier Schools, a broad coalition of educational, environmental, health, and civic organizations, was preparing a “Back to School ...
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The `Anatomy` of an Asbestos Lawsuit
Clients and potential clients are often curious about 'what happens' in an asbestos lawsuit. This is a difficult question to answer because every case we handle is unique, and one of the things that makes The Firm distinctive is that we handle every case on an individual basis. Nevertheless, asbestos litigation in California has some common features, and this article attempts to describe the ...
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DaimlerChrysler Launches Dr. Gag Campaign
Here’s a question for Dr. Z: Why are you trying to prevent the news media from covering a high-profile asbestos trial? DaimlerChrysler, the auto company represented in TV commercials by its chairman, Dieter Zetsche a.k.a. 'Dr. Z', moved yesterday for a gag order to stop an Oakland law firm from fielding calls from the press, including Legal Pad’s sister publication The Recorder. The gag motion ...
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Why is Asbestos Removal Important for business?
As a popular building material in the 1970s, the dangers of asbestos were not fully realised until much later, meaning that professional asbestos removal is now needed on many properties. Found to be a carcinogen, this material was most commonly used in duct, loft and pipe insulation and floor tiles. Many businesses are now looking to make sure that any asbestos they have is removed, but it can ...
By Flame UK
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Identifying Naturally Occurring Asbestos Hazards at Worksites
Asbestos is the name given to a group of six different fibrous minerals that occur naturally in the environment. These minerals can be found in soil and rock formations in many regions of the Western United States. The term naturally occurring asbestos, or NOA, refers to the mineral as a natural component of soils or rocks as opposed to asbestos in commercial products, mining or processing ...
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Asbestos in Dusts Can Pose Health and Safety Issues for Building Occupants
Asbestos was used heavily in many building materials in the United States up until the mid-1980s. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), “Asbestos fibers may be released into the air by the disturbance of asbestos-containing material during product use, demolition work, building or home maintenance, repair, and remodeling.” The EPA goes on to report, ...
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Asbestos is still with us: repeat call for a universal ban
All forms of asbestos are proven human carcinogens. All forms of asbestos cause malignant mesothelioma and lung, laryngeal and ovarian cancers, and may cause gastrointestinal and other cancers. No exposure to asbestos is without risk. Nonetheless, a large number of countries still use, import and export asbestos and asbestos-containing products. And in many countries that have banned other forms ...
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`A pack in your pocket and a cigarette in your mouth`
Not only did he smoke, but he was required to smoke - on the job. Jim McEvoy told this to Firm principal, Victoria Edises, twenty years ago, long before the secret documents of the tobacco industry had been made public. Back then, when asbestos plaintiffs' attorneys were emboldened to sue tobacco companies, they were overwhelmed with motions, interrogatories and depositions, awash in a ...
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Environmental enforcement trends in brazil
Environmental enforcement trends in brazil Brazil does not have a strong reputation for the enforcement of its laws. Lesley K. McAllister stated that “The paradox of environmental enforcement in Brazil is that environmental laws are strong but environmental agencies are weak.” (McAllister paraphrasing Aragão and Bunker, 1998, in Making Law Matter: Environmental Protection ...
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Enhesa Enforcement Corner - Issue 1
Input from Taotao Yue, Kengo Okuda, Tjeerd Hendel-Blackford, Riccardo Zorgno, and Jimena Murillo Chávarro. Enhesa keeps an eye on key regulatory enforcement actions around the globe. Here are just some examples of the many enforcement cases around the world in the past month. CHINA: Jiangsu environmental authority publicized 25 typical environmental law violation cases, covering ...
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