Would you accept Asbestos back in building materials?

[SirGalahad]

https://archpaper.com/2018/08/epa-asbestos-manufacturing/

Trump is just slashing environmental protections and regulations and I was wondering anyone who has worked with the materials was its banning the correct action?

 

[Bodd]

https://archpaper.com/2018/08/epa-asbestos-manufacturing/

Trump is just slashing environmental protections and regulations and I was wondering anyone who has worked with the materials was its banning the correct action?

Yes of course. Horrible material

 

[SirGalahad]

MAGA - Make Asbestos Great Again

 

[Bodd]

MAGA - Make Asbestos Great Again

I think he's got shares in a Russian asbestos company..

 

[Notch7]

Chlorinated asbestos....great!

 

[Bodd]

Chlorinated asbestos....great!

I don't know what's best. Chlorinated Chicken or Asbestos.

 

[Bodd]

That's got to be the worst dubbing I've seen since Monkey and the Water Margin

MAGA - Make Asbestos Great Again

 

[Ihavenojob]

What is wrong with using asbestos ?

 

[Brigadier]

Nothing, if done properly.
Which has been demonstrated, and continues to be demonstrated time and time again, beyond the abilities and management of most people, and many organisations.

 

[Diver Fred]

Even if the workers would (Did) - would the insurance companies?

 

[Ian H]

I had a stupid asbestos occurrence recently.

A soil stack was suspected asbestos so a firm was employed to remove it.

I turn up and it's still there, I phone up to ask and the firm wouldn't take it until they had tested it.

They told me to remove it, bag it up and leave it on site for collection.

I said why not just treat it as worst case and remove it without testing but no, they can't do that.

So I do my repair, remove it, bag it, tag it and leave it in someone's garden for them to collect if it tests as asbestos.

Seemed stupid.

I touched it and was rendered unconscious*

*The last sentence is not true.

 

[Notch7]

I touched it and was rendered unconscious

Asleep on the job again...Im telling your boss

 

[Brigadier]

I had a stupid asbestos occurrence recently.

A soil stack was suspected asbestos so a firm was employed to remove it.

I turn up and it's still there, I phone up to ask and the firm wouldn't take it until they had tested it.

They told me to remove it, bag it up and leave it on site for collection.

I said why not just treat it as worst case and remove it without testing but no, they can't do that.

So I do my repair, remove it, bag it, tag it and leave it in someone's garden for them to collect if it tests as asbestos.

You have to be very careful, messing about with asbestos soil pipes.
Get it wrong, and you're in the shoite.

 

[SirGalahad]

Nothing, if done properly.
Which has been demonstrated, and continues to be demonstrated time and time again, beyond the abilities and management of most people, and many organisations.

So the banning was appropriate because compliance was low or non existent?

The costs of non compliance outweighed any benefits of the use of Asbestos?

 

[Brigadier]

Lack of knowledge is (and probably has been) the major factor for decades now.

Knowledge of whether there is any asbestos present, where someone is working.

(Wilful) non-compliance is an acknowledged issue, but IME makes up a small proportion of the issue as a whole.