Dickson asbestos alert

They also did asbestos testing in Ainslie shops. My bro’s clinic was targeted and even though tested it and found no risk they still shut him down whilst they do “structural testing” and given the media hype of it all the Canberra times had an asbestos story with a photo stating that the acupuncture clinic was ridded with asbestos…….Bulls***t

dungfungus said :

c_c™ said :

CraigT said :

troll-sniffer said :

Anyone who worked in a city during the 60s and 70s and wandered the streets while traffic was moving about was almost certainly exposed to more fibres than anyone today who might stumble across a bit of friable asbestos sheeting and disturbs it.

It just occurred to me – anybody who visits a a city in countries where asbestos is still common (brake pads, etc…) has breathed in gazillions of these fibres.
Anywhere in China. Bangkok. Jakarta. Asbestos everywhere.

troll-sniffer said :

…it was revealed that the Wittenoom workers on average were breathing in 6-7 million fibres per hour of their working lives, and although a lot got mesothelioma a percentage didn’t.

10% of them got mesothelioma.

..and Wittenoom was [b]Blue Asbestos[/b].

Nothing like what goes in fibro.

Fibro can have blue asbestos too.

While there are no records discovered yet, anecdotal evidence suggests there are a lot of concrete/asbestos mains water pipes in Canberra (and New South Wales).
It will be interesting to see what is unearthed when the heavy infrastructure light rail contractors start digging up Northbourne Avenue.
What happened to Mr. Corbell’s “audit report” on what services and utilities were located under the Northbourne Avenue median strip?
Maybe too horrible to release?

How can there be no records? I was recently on a building with loads of them.

c_c™ said :

CraigT said :

troll-sniffer said :

Anyone who worked in a city during the 60s and 70s and wandered the streets while traffic was moving about was almost certainly exposed to more fibres than anyone today who might stumble across a bit of friable asbestos sheeting and disturbs it.

It just occurred to me – anybody who visits a a city in countries where asbestos is still common (brake pads, etc…) has breathed in gazillions of these fibres.
Anywhere in China. Bangkok. Jakarta. Asbestos everywhere.

troll-sniffer said :

…it was revealed that the Wittenoom workers on average were breathing in 6-7 million fibres per hour of their working lives, and although a lot got mesothelioma a percentage didn’t.

10% of them got mesothelioma.

..and Wittenoom was [b]Blue Asbestos[/b].

Nothing like what goes in fibro.

Fibro can have blue asbestos too.

While there are no records discovered yet, anecdotal evidence suggests there are a lot of concrete/asbestos mains water pipes in Canberra (and New South Wales).
It will be interesting to see what is unearthed when the heavy infrastructure light rail contractors start digging up Northbourne Avenue.
What happened to Mr. Corbell’s “audit report” on what services and utilities were located under the Northbourne Avenue median strip?
Maybe too horrible to release?

GaryLooney said :

Mesothelioma is a horrible disease, our Government claims concern about worrying the public in order to not deal with political and commercial Liability.

If there is no concern, there is no action, plain and simple politics.
For those who do not agree, who cares. I do

http://www.scribd.com/collections/4441447/TelstraPits

You can work with asbestos if you protect yourself from it.

Our government has done more than most when it comes to providing the laws that regulate those protections.

Mesothelioma is a horrible disease, our Government claims concern about worrying the public in order to not deal with political and commercial Liability.

If there is no concern, there is no action, plain and simple politics.
For those who do not agree, who cares. I do

http://www.scribd.com/collections/4441447/TelstraPits

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

JC said :

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

Do you have sources for any of that BS, craigt?

Btw, asbestos sheeting is not “just fibro”.

CC is 100% correct.

Most of what Craig says is most correct. It is well known fact that there is friable and no friable asbestos and asbestos sheeting, roofing etc is very much non friable, meaning the danger time is people making it, people cutting it, people removing it and it if becomes damaged simply because the fibres are bound in something else. In most cases with non friable leaving it alone is more safe than having it removed, so long of course you know it is there and treat it as such.

I reckon there is some of this in every home built in the ACT before the early to mid 90’s.

The friable variety is the most dangerous because it isn’t bound in something so fibres can get in the air more readily. The insulation that was removed from Canberra over the years being a good case, along with some forms of pipe cladding where it can be easily disturbed and broken.

Now all that said in the case of Dickson it would appear as if some sheeting has started to break up and there were broken parts of the sheeting on top of false ceilings. So in this case clearly it should be considered as potentially dangerous and properly inspected and cleaned. But as mentioned what Craig said is for the most part the truth and not BS. Just need to do some googling for friable and non friable.

If air monitoring has detected fibres, then there is a major issue.

Did you not read my last paragraph?

CraigT said :

troll-sniffer said :

Anyone who worked in a city during the 60s and 70s and wandered the streets while traffic was moving about was almost certainly exposed to more fibres than anyone today who might stumble across a bit of friable asbestos sheeting and disturbs it.

It just occurred to me – anybody who visits a a city in countries where asbestos is still common (brake pads, etc…) has breathed in gazillions of these fibres.
Anywhere in China. Bangkok. Jakarta. Asbestos everywhere.

troll-sniffer said :

…it was revealed that the Wittenoom workers on average were breathing in 6-7 million fibres per hour of their working lives, and although a lot got mesothelioma a percentage didn’t.

10% of them got mesothelioma.

..and Wittenoom was [b]Blue Asbestos[/b].

Nothing like what goes in fibro.

Fibro can have blue asbestos too.

troll-sniffer said :

Anyone who worked in a city during the 60s and 70s and wandered the streets while traffic was moving about was almost certainly exposed to more fibres than anyone today who might stumble across a bit of friable asbestos sheeting and disturbs it.

It just occurred to me – anybody who visits a a city in countries where asbestos is still common (brake pads, etc…) has breathed in gazillions of these fibres.
Anywhere in China. Bangkok. Jakarta. Asbestos everywhere.

troll-sniffer said :

…it was revealed that the Wittenoom workers on average were breathing in 6-7 million fibres per hour of their working lives, and although a lot got mesothelioma a percentage didn’t.

10% of them got mesothelioma.

..and Wittenoom was [b]Blue Asbestos[/b].

Nothing like what goes in fibro.

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

CraigT said :

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

JC said :

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

Do you have sources for any of that BS, craigt?

Btw, asbestos sheeting is not “just fibro”.

CC is 100% correct.

Most of what Craig says is most correct. It is well known fact that there is friable and no friable asbestos and asbestos sheeting, roofing etc is very much non friable, meaning the danger time is people making it, people cutting it, people removing it and it if becomes damaged simply because the fibres are bound in something else. In most cases with non friable leaving it alone is more safe than having it removed, so long of course you know it is there and treat it as such.

I reckon there is some of this in every home built in the ACT before the early to mid 90’s.

The friable variety is the most dangerous because it isn’t bound in something so fibres can get in the air more readily. The insulation that was removed from Canberra over the years being a good case, along with some forms of pipe cladding where it can be easily disturbed and broken.

Now all that said in the case of Dickson it would appear as if some sheeting has started to break up and there were broken parts of the sheeting on top of false ceilings. So in this case clearly it should be considered as potentially dangerous and properly inspected and cleaned. But as mentioned what Craig said is for the most part the truth and not BS. Just need to do some googling for friable and non friable.

If air monitoring has detected fibres, then there is a major issue.

Crap.

Just like science, huh?

More crap.

It’s been explained to you in a variety of different ways (see above, if you can read) that a bit of old fibro lying around poses ^%$#-all risk in terms of asbestos.

CraigT said :

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

JC said :

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

Do you have sources for any of that BS, craigt?

Btw, asbestos sheeting is not “just fibro”.

CC is 100% correct.

Most of what Craig says is most correct. It is well known fact that there is friable and no friable asbestos and asbestos sheeting, roofing etc is very much non friable, meaning the danger time is people making it, people cutting it, people removing it and it if becomes damaged simply because the fibres are bound in something else. In most cases with non friable leaving it alone is more safe than having it removed, so long of course you know it is there and treat it as such.

I reckon there is some of this in every home built in the ACT before the early to mid 90’s.

The friable variety is the most dangerous because it isn’t bound in something so fibres can get in the air more readily. The insulation that was removed from Canberra over the years being a good case, along with some forms of pipe cladding where it can be easily disturbed and broken.

Now all that said in the case of Dickson it would appear as if some sheeting has started to break up and there were broken parts of the sheeting on top of false ceilings. So in this case clearly it should be considered as potentially dangerous and properly inspected and cleaned. But as mentioned what Craig said is for the most part the truth and not BS. Just need to do some googling for friable and non friable.

If air monitoring has detected fibres, then there is a major issue.

Crap.

Just like science, huh?