Thread: Asbestos

Originally Posted by bsperka

From health.gov.au
"As a General Rule ...
if your house was built:

before the mid-1980s it is highly likely that it has asbestos-containing products

between the mid-1980s and 1990 it is likely that it has asbestos containing products

after 1990 it is unlikely that it has asbestos-containing products.a

a Some houses built in the 1990s and early 2000s may have still used asbestos cement materials until the total ban on any activity involving asbestos products became effective from December 2003."

I know this as i started my apprenticeship in 2001. I stated 1980 as it almost a given that there will be asbestos layden materials through out the house. 1990 onwards you'd find that it was used less.

Originally Posted by 1nando

I know this as i started my apprenticeship in 2001. I stated 1980 as it almost a given that there will be asbestos layden materials through out the house. 1990 onwards you'd find that it was used less.

I was stating for others as still issues until 1990s. Btw: I also knew the years.

Originally Posted by 101 Ron

I certainly don't want this personal or a slanging match.
Just a difference of information and experiences so far learnt.
That bloke who fought very hard for the compension from Hardies and tragically died I think before he could see it through.........a former smoker.
I friend I knew died of asbestosis and thought was a non smoker...........turns out smoked in his time in the navy (asbestos pipe lagging) and was wardrobe cigar smoker later in life.
About Eight people still live at Wittenoon..........and have been long term.
Guess what they have in common.
Every time I dig I find a connection.
Strangys story is the first I have heard with no smoking connection.
Then the famous story of the women as a girl played in the fibro pile and died of asbestosis many years later.......was a smoker in her older years.
It goes on.
I was pointing out over reaction to asbestos already in the work place at times.
I am not suggesting not to use common sense in handling asbestos.
Glass fibres appears to be a isuse in the glass wool insulation industry in the confined spaces of house roofs.
Then the true story of the lady who lived in Wiittenoon most of her life until she couldn't look after her self......in her 70s......guess if she smoked or not.
I just looking at things from a different angle.

Ron it's sort of 6 of one and 1/2 dozen the other. Yes smokers are more likely to get lung cancers when exposed to asbestos, BUT other studies have shown chain smokers in the factories where LESS likely to get asbestos in their lungs as they almost always had a filter. This was particularly highlighted by their wives getting asbestosis from doing the washing from the 1900's-1980's. While the chain smoking husband was either ok or had the associated smoking issues.

I've just remembered while rereading this thread that a lady at work approx. 10 years ago died from asbestos fibres from her husbands overalls.
All she did was launder time.
AlanH.

We all need to die, in Australia at the moment you can not die from old age, you can live to 110 and will be put on the heart disease list or the lung cancer list, you will have died from some disease, traffic accident, murder so on and so on.
There's 2 billion chinese people, smoking doesn't seem to be hurting them.
Maybe some are manipulating the stats to get a result they want.
It seems to me that not everyone that spent lots of time breathing in asbestos dust fibres died an early death.
What is an early death?
60 maybe.
My grandfather died from smoking at 95.
My grand father lived untill the ripe old age of 95 despite being a smoker since he was 14.
Same story told differently.

Certainly some smokers live to a ripe old age and well done them. But my dad died at the age of 52 when I was 14.....
AlanH

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