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1 Australian Dies Of Asbestos-Related Diseases Every 14 Hours - “Prevention Is The Alone Cure”

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MEDIA RELEASE: 23 NOVEMBER 2017

Although 1 Australian Dies Of Asbestos-Related Diseases Every 14 Hours

ASBESTOS WARNINGS CONTINUE TO FALL ON DEAF EARS

“PREVENTION IS THE ONLY CURE”

Friday 24 November is Asbestos Awareness Day - National Asbestos Awareness Anniversary 2017

Although at atomic one Australian dies from asbestos-related diseases every 14 hours, and with deaths predicted to acceleration due to homeowners and tradies inhaling asbestos fibres back renovating or advancement properties, tragically the warnings abide to abatement on deafened ears.

Some accept that asbestos-related deaths abide active abysmal in Australia’s accomplished but this is best absolutely not the case. Every week, 13 Australians die of asbestos-related diseases - 12 from cancerous mesothelioma and addition 13 are diagnosed with this cureless blight acquired from inhaling asbestos fibres back asbestos-containing abstracts are disturbed.

Don Burke OAM, Ambassador for the National Asbestos Awareness Campaign said, “Even faced with these adverse statistics, bodies abide to avoid the warnings and unnecessarily betrayal themselves, their ally and acutely their kids to asbestos fibres that are accepted to kill.”

“Due to Australia’s bequest of wide-spread use of asbestos-containing abstracts in homes and non-residential backdrop there charcoal a actual absolute and present danger, decidedly for DIY renovators and tradies who accident advancing these articles in their circadian work,” he said.

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If asbestos is abashed during renovations or in the annihilation of homes or non-residential backdrop and fibres are appear that can be inhaled, this can account asbestos-related diseases including lung blight and cancerous mesothelioma which can advance 20-50 years afterwards inhaling fibres - there is no cure and the boilerplate adaptation time afterwards analysis is aloof 10-12 months.

In the past, Australians diagnosed with cancerous mesothelioma were primarily men (including tradies) acquired from work-related exposure. However, according to the Australian Mesothelioma Registry (2016) about one third of Australians apparent to asbestos fibres occurred in non-work-related situations, of these about 50% were women with acknowledgment best accepted amid bodies who had done above home renovations involving asbestos products.

In the ‘Asbestos acknowledgment during home advance in NSW’ study, added than 61% of DIY renovators appear asbestos acknowledgment during renovations, 40% appear their accomplice had been apparent and about 23% appear that their accouchement had additionally been apparent to asbestos fibres - that is 1 in 4 accouchement actuality apparent to the baleful fibres during DIY renovations.

With asbestos acknowledgment affiliated to DIY and renovating, the affirmation credibility to an access in Australians (including women and adolescent Australians) who will be diagnosed with asbestos-related diseases through non work-related exposure.

“It may not be this year, or alike ten years from now, but blow assured that if Australian’s abide to avoid the warnings there will be families beyond Australia devastated by the account that a admired one is diagnosed with a baleful asbestos-related ache that could accept been prevented,” he said.

“While we don’t apperceive absolutely how abounding asbestos fibres it takes to account asbestos-related diseases, what we do apperceive is that inhaling fibres is the alone accepted account and the greater the cardinal of fibres inhaled, the greater the accident to health.

“Because Australia was amid the accomplished consumers of asbestos in the world, it’s activity to be abounding years (if ever), afore ACMs are removed absolutely from backdrop so every Australian charge accomplish it their business to apprentice how to analyze and administer asbestos cautiously because blockage is the alone accepted cure.”

“With Australia’s affection for renovating fuelled by anytime accepted DIY affairs programs, if Australians don’t alpha demography the warnings seriously, we could be risking our lives and the lives of those we love,” Don Burke said.

Asbestos charcoal in one third of Aussie homes – it can be in any brick, weatherboard, fibro or clad home congenital or adapted above-mentioned to 1987, including apartments. If able-bodied maintained and larboard undisturbed asbestos is absurd to affectation a bloom risk. It’s alone back these abstracts are abashed and fibres are appear and are inhaled, that they can account asbestos-related diseases including cureless mesothelioma.

Asbestos abstracts were acclimated everywhere in homes and in non-residential backdrop - ambuscade beneath attic coverings including carpets, linoleum and vinyl tiles, abaft bank and attic tiles, in adhesive floors, centralized and alien walls, ceilings and beam amplitude (insulation), eaves, garages, roofs, about hot baptize pipes, fences, home extensions, garages, alfresco toilets, backyard and acreage structures, chook sheds and alike dog kennels.

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Professor Ken Takahashi, Director the Asbestos Diseases Research Institute (ADRI) said, “With the cardinal of Australian’s afflicted by asbestos-related diseases predicted to abide aerial in advancing years, instead of blank the warnings, homeowners and tradies accept a albatross to apprentice the dangers of asbestos and how to administer it cautiously to anticipate acknowledgment to fibres that can advance into a baleful diseases including mesothelioma.”

If you’re cerebration of renovating and you anticipate a artefact ability be asbestos, comedy it safe, amusement it as if it is asbestos and booty all the all-important precautions including accepting the experts in. A licenced asbestos adjudicator can appear to your home and appraise the acreage and if you charge to abolish asbestos, alone use licenced asbestos removalists because it’s not account the risk!

When it comes to asbestos and renovating, GO SLOW - Asbestos it’s a NO GO! Visit asbestosawareness.com.au to acquisition out what you charge to know!

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Visit asbestosawareness.com.au for advice and useful, applied assets including:

· Asbestos Awareness - 20 Point Safety Check (asbestos risks and how to administer asbestos safely)

· Asbestos in Your Home – The Ultimate Renovators Adviser (easy to chase video hosted by Australia’s Advance Queen and Asbestos Awareness Ambassador, Cherie Barber)

· Asbestos Awareness Healthy House Checklist – A Homeowner’s Adviser to Anecdotic Asbestos-Containing Abstracts (user-friendly step-by-step adviser to anecdotic asbestos in the home)

· Fact Sheets for Homeowners (when, why and how to use Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

· Residential Checklist for Tradies – A Tradespersons Adviser to Asbestos (Identify the artefact types and locations in residential properties)

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· Trade Specific Checklist for Tradies – A Tradespersons Adviser to Asbestos (Tailored to trades)

· Fact Sheets for Tradies (when, why and how to use Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

· Asbestos Artefact Database – (Australia’s alone absolute online asbestos artefact database)

· Renovation Roulette Community Service Announcement

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