You read about a lot of cases like this in buildings of this nature and public buildings, but show me a case where it involved an Electrician putting up a replacement light in a private domestic dwelling.
In my area council houses were under refurbishment and asbestos was found, the project was closed down, tenants were relocated, it must have cost over a million to implement.
However what about the people that had already lived in them for the past 35 Years, rubbing it down and decorating over it.
Surely these people must now be able to claim for damage to health if it's that bad, or is it overkill.
Great Western Railway had men in the boiler rooms lagging with asbestos, apparently you could see it in the air, it was like fog.
Some of these men died as a result but not all.
Similar with the woman that made matches, the fumes meant they lived very short lives, people knew it was bad but still did the job.
The amount of fuses I've pulled over the last 40 years that had the asbestos in the back of the carrier that fell out when you removed the fuse and you picked it up and put it back, was never considered dangerous but now you seal it up and close the factory down.
MDF dust is a killer, how many sites do you go on and the carpenters with the circular saw cutting away and not a care in the world, with everyone else breathing it in.
Yes it's all bad and should be avoided if possible, but I do believe in this day and age people want to make money off the back of it being dangerous and make it out to be far worse than it is.
Everything we do is bad for us, like going outside and breathing all the fumes from vehicles, would they stop all transport, I don't think so, yet in China people walking around with masks on, do they know something we don't.
