WorkSafeBC is advancement homeowners active in houses congenital afore 1990 to analysis their homes for asbestos afore starting any advance projects.
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The bureau has launched an acquaintance attack in acknowledgment to analysis that indicates homeowners may not be acquainted of aloof how accustomed the actual can be and how alarming it is.
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Asbestos is the number-one analgesic of workers in British Columbia, according to WorkSafeBC. In the ten years from 2006 to 2015, 584 B.C. workers died from diseases accompanying to asbestos exposure.
If workers breathe in abundant asbestos, their lungs can be assuredly damaged or they can get lung cancer. There is a continued cessation aeon (10 to 40 years on average) amid the time a artisan breathes in asbestos fibres and back a ache can develop.
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In homes congenital afore 1990 - townhouses and condominiums included - asbestos can potentially be begin in added than 3,000 architecture abstracts such as linoleum, bank lath and bushing compound, textured ceilings, vermiculite insulation, aqueduct insulation, in furnaces or wiring.
Asbestos can be appear into the air back these architecture abstracts are drilled, sawed, sanded or burst up during a advance or demolition. In such cases, workers can breathe in asbestos fibres if they are not protected.
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"Asbestos kills," said Al Johnson, WorkSafeBC's carnality admiral of Prevention Field Services. "The almost low akin of acquaintance by home owners apropos the dangers airish by asbestos agency workers and alike ancestors associates can potentially be put at risk.
"Renovations and demolitions of earlier backdrop abide at a actual aerial amount and homeowners charge to be abreast about the alarming attributes of asbestos and how to assure workers and themselves."
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The best way to analyze asbestos in a home is with the advice of a able testing aggregation or asbestos surveyor. Once that's done, the abutting footfall is to accept the articular asbestos removed by a able asbestos abatement contractor.
More advice can be begin at ThinkAsbestos.com and HiddenKiller.ca, as able-bodied as at WorkSafeBC.com.
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