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Posted By R Joe
I could be wrong but I suspect that I'm not the only one who can find themselves increasingly in a very cold sweat sometimes at night when I think of the various times that certainly I - and maybe members of my family - been unwittingly exposed over the last 25-30 years whether it's changing brake or clutch linings, engine gaskets, temporary labouring work involving ceiling tiles, sanding adhesive behind kitchen wall tiles, brushing up the felt dust after the garage has been re-roofed, realising that the painter had been sanding the soffits, having artex ceilings skimmed to discover that the first stage is to scrape it vigorously to provide a key for PVA pre-skim......or maybe it's the central heating engineer who's just hoovered up after servicing the gas fire with his domestic vacuum cleaner that he previously used to clean up an asbestos gasket on the last job.....anyway the point is, as well as those that we increasingly try to protect through our chosen vocation, have we also thought sufficiently about alerting family and friends?
As a further thought, is this an area (unwitting domestic exposure) where IOSH with its charitable remit, which includes the public not just those at work, could make a very worthwhile difference?
RJ
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Posted By Ron Hunter
In a non-work setting,we are all at some risk where ACMs are inadvertantly disturbed in our homes.
I have found that most LAs and Housing Associations will provide tenants with reasonable information. I believe the real gap is in the private housing sector, and it might be reasonable to expect Surveyors (maybe RCIS?) to play their part in addressing this.
There is an excellent guidance leaflet depicting typical uses of ACMs in a domestic setting (e.g. as shown on HSE website) and it would be of some help perhaps if a copy of that was included with every valuation survey of a pre-2000 property?
This topic was recently covered on the BBC's "ONE" show. The bottom line of course is that whilst there is a reasonable awareness across the public of the risks posed by asbestos (& sometimes an over-reaction to these risks)there is little or no understanding of what ACMs typically look like, where they were used and the issue of relative "friability". Too many leaflets still make reference to "blue, brown and white" - which is of no real use to the man in the street.
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