30-10-2020, 12:16 PM
Having spent most of my life in the motor industry I watch the slowly developing debate about health and safety with interest and some confusion. Things are certainly better than they once were. On the other hand I still see a lot of 'lip service'; and as many have discovered in recent months, much PPE is scarcely fit for purpose. The best I can say about asbestos is that it seems to be a bit of a lottery, some seem to get away with extraordinary exposure yet others seem to suffer dire consequences from relatively little. The only conclusion I can draw is that it's better safe than sorry, all the more so at the present moment in history where a lung complaint is the very last thing one needs.
I was reading at the weekend a book written in the 1870's in which there was a paragraph detailing the untimely deaths then prevalent among the knife-grinders of Sheffield. When opened up they were found to have lungs quite solid and black. At that time the 'state of the art' was to equip workshops with tall chimneys which would set up some level of dust extraction.
I was reading at the weekend a book written in the 1870's in which there was a paragraph detailing the untimely deaths then prevalent among the knife-grinders of Sheffield. When opened up they were found to have lungs quite solid and black. At that time the 'state of the art' was to equip workshops with tall chimneys which would set up some level of dust extraction.