Thread: Asbestos asbestos

Originally Posted by JDNSW

I suspect that the danger is different for different forms of asbestos - the term covers multiple minerals, the most common being white and blue, the latter being the most dangerous apparently.

One interesting question - for about ninety years asbestos was the major component of all brake linings. What happens to them? they mostly turn to dust, which is dispersed into the air, mostly in our cities - which is where most of the cars are. Yet we do not see city wide epidemics of asbestos diseases, instead we see in almost all cases a distinct link to specific intense exposure.

The biggest home owner problem is probably since people started using power tools on fibro.

John

I did hear many years ago that when Melbourne's West gate bridge used to have tolls, there was concern for the staff that used to man the toll booths.

I grew up on a major arterial road that had set of traffic lights about 100 metres up the road. During the afternoon peak, for about two hours five days a week, cars were continually braking past my place.

Further up the road about two km where there are more lights there was a big tree in the front yard on the corner. This tree had a bit of historic value and was having some health issues.It was blamed on dust from cars brakes.

I've been to a seminar on asbestos and the fibres from Perths CBD looked no different from the fibres they got from Tom Price,Paraburdoo and Newman.Whaleback was closed to mining for 2 weeks or so while I was there because they hit a seam of it,air samples pick it up all over the north of WA. Pat