Asbestos - The Evil Dust
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Watch this 1950-60s film that captures the UK relationship with this amazing natural mineral. Sadly, the multi million pound industry was too aware of the potential health hazards. It was used everywhere and now is the UKs largest industrial occupational killer. 4500 avoidable deaths per year due to one reason only, that they have been exposed to asbestos fibres. Please don't take the risk. STORM find the lethal menace on your premises, assess it, allowing you to manage it and inform those who may disturb it eg contractors. STORM asbestos surveys. HSE asbestos survey. STORM asbestos awareness training. Get in touch with STORM on 0845 862 0228 or contact jessica@stormconsultancyuk.com
Some progress has been made since this documentary was produced. Canada no longer exports any asbestos and all the mines are permanently closed. Russia is the main producer now.
Yup... and to nobody's surprise there was a past US president that attempted to relax Asbestos regulations via an EPA appointment. The Russian company even stamped his mug on their products. Uralasbest, look it up.
This angers me my husband died of mesothelioma in September 2022 at the age of 61 he was a joiner and had worked on construction and ship yards .He suffered for 21 months with it and to watch some one you love suffer with severe pain ,coughing and watching them slowley fading away is not nice .no compensation will ever bring back my husband, l and his family are living the nightmare ever day. By him going to work to earn a living cost him his life like so many like him
Did he refuse to use his dust mask?
So sorry for your loss marianne…your husband was so young,my heart breaks for you and hoping you are able to find some peace…my heartache of losing my husband is yet to come….he’d been an all round builder since leaving school,he loved his work and will leave behind many amazing projects…
His love of creating will eventually kill him! How sad is that? X
Life for 95% of humans. You’re born. You work hard your entire life. You die. Same fate for most of us.
you think a dust mask would protect against this
@@gingerhiser7312
Sorry to your family. That's terrible.
Turner & Newel had an asbestos factory located next to the cement factory in my birth own of Rhoose, South Wales. Workers from the town worked in either the cement plant like my father or the asbestos plant. The plant closed down in the 1970s but as children we played near there including a large settlement pond where water laden with asbestos was allowed to seep into the water table below the asbestos sediment. The factory became a pallet factory, then a scrap yard & eventually the whole thing was burried & there is not a housing estate on top of the site....I kid you not. Thinking back to the years after Turner closed down, I knew NOBODY who had worked for Turner who was still alive...
David Brewer yeah, same is true worldwide, all because of money.
@@AcornElectron smartphones and bluetooth danger aswell in long term
@@angc1456 I hear you, wifi is terrible, I feel it. (yes I do use it ) The country park that I like to walk to get as far as away as possible has now just had a wifi network installed because the lazy people that only drive there and then sit on their asses complained that they couldn't get a good signal.
In Europe, for example, another scandal is immanent: the use of lead tetraethyl-added fuels was only completely banned at the beginning of 2000. This highly toxic substance can still be detected in the bodies of all people born before 2000. The number of people in whom this has caused cancer, infertility or other diseases has never really been fully researched.
That scene of the indian asbestos workers is so sad. Because the workers apparently know - trying to protect themselves with a woefully insufficient scarf...
My darling husband has recently been diagnosed with cancer of the lung….mesothelioma…he s only 69 years old….😢 our life now is trying to be positive day by day,he and his father worked many years in building,he died of asbestosis 12 years ago…
Governments should hold these firms responsible and accountable for these deaths…..
Glad they eventually did…too late now for some…
No good wasting precious time we both have left for misery and hatred….our time will be spent making new memories and hoping for as much more time God can give us!
I'm so sorry to hear of your husband's diagnosis. Watching a loved one suffer from this horrible disease can be very hard on spouses, families and caregivers. I wish you and your husband continued strength.
@@shepardodonnell thank you so very much for your kind words….every day is a battle but we both battle on!
Best of luck to you both. Look into the Optune Lua tumor treating fields device. It can be used with chemotherapy and may help extend survival time.
You can put a claim in with a legal firm about mesothilioma
Im so sorry for your loss. =(
Do you think i can get asbestos id im being exposed 2 times?
Greed and corruption at its finest.
Today still alive and well at the consumers health expense.
Boost up!
They used to put asbestos in cigarette filters for a short time in the 50s before they pulled the plug on that genius idea😂
In Russia, asbestos is still being mined en masse in opencast mining
Eye opening documentary
I lived in a 1926 house and there was some asbestos in the basement around pipes . I was just told not to mess with it . Leave it alone
Should of had it removed
@@dLw920 Nope. Removing it is what releeaes fibers. Just leave it alone.
My 1920 house has asbestos siding. No one will remove it. They say just paint it. It will not harm anyone until it's taken off.
@@trr5291asbestos contractors set up containments and go in and remove it. After they’re finished abating they’ll have an air tech come in and do an air test to see how many fibers are in the air. I currently work as an abatement supervisor and remove it most days of the week throughout Pennsylvania.
@@gingerhiser7312 You can remove it in a safe way but it's very expensive. My house has asbestos too, I'd like to remove it but it's too expensive.
And with that we learned never to use toxic materials except when well maintained in niche applications when absolutely necessary and definitely not in domestic applications and in every appliance and piece of packaging currently made. Now we use plastic.
Exactly
I feel so bad for people of the past, may they rest in peace.
In Australia the passenger trains contain asbestos in the 80s whole carriages were buried in pits due to them containing blue asbestos even in 2020 Melbournes comeng trains still have asbestos in the electrical cabinets
Asbestos is everywhere in Australia still.
As you know it’s fireproof so they have no choice but to bury it into the ground.
There was a mining town in Pilbara region and place called Wittenoom gorge mines and which mined the dangerous mineral blue asbestos mining town of Wittenoom from 1947 to 1966 and now is a abandoned ghost town now
Asbestos is pretty horid ,but look up the 1979 Woolworth fire the use of flammable materials in furniture was found to be problematic
I work in homes that burn down, most of them contain Asbestos and it doesn't stop the house from burning down and falling apart
They are just doing it in different ways today
friend died in 2002 aged 62 from asbestosis from living close to mill as a child.
Heavy industry wants profit and any cost.
Mining industry
Tobacco industry
Asbestos industry
War industry
Oil industry
Nuclear industry
Sugar industry
Farm chemical industry
Eventually people are shown the hazards and stop using the products.
Simply diabolical ! The greed of those factory owners is just disgusting, knowing your product was killing people and yet pretending is was not dangerous to keep profits at the cost of their employees and employees’ families lives..
@1:26 I wish we still had good gas like that , look at how nice that lights off, the stuff you get nowadays won't do that
I lost my father in law to mesothelioma 2 yrs ago and are still fighting the government for compensation. They knew for yrs and yet they let people like him, my father and my husband breathe in that deadly dust. They all worked in the chemical industry. Two are still alive. But refused to get tested. We only found out about my father in law because he got COPD.
It’s a horrible death.
mine dad to😞 what age was your dad🙂↕️
@@martindobrev-u6j 83, my husband just found out what his service was worth I was so annoyed by ICI. They were nothing but meat!
It’s no wonder why we cannot trust people in government.
Wealth and power want to stay in wealth and power at any cost to us plain folk.
But you can trust companies???
If it wasn’t for the fact that we cant breathe it or ingest it, it would be awesome stuff…….
Greed is incredibly insidious.
So true
In Pilbara region of the town of Wittenoom gorge mines did blue asbestos mining town of Wittenoom gorge mines and my mate William munro died of metheleoma asbestos disease and people got diagnosed of blue asbestos mining town of Wittenoom
My 104 year old house has asbestos siding. No one wants to remove it. The only option is paint. They did remove all the asbestos from the interior.
Its expensive as hell to remove
I can't find anyone to remove it either way. Luckily the stuff does last forever. It's still in good condition. Just paint it and move on. It's all you can do. The siding itself isn't dangerous. What is behind it is.
My ex hired inmates to remove the roof on my office 20 hrs ago. That asbestos dust fell inside my office daily for a decade before I became disabled from it being removed half ass. I have symptoms now of painful lungs when I breath. I don't even think I want to know if I have it. That building was over a hundred yrs old. The ceilings were boards with gaps..it's probably still.falling down inside for whoever ow s it now. He's an ex husband now
when i was in england i cleaned such an old house no ventilation no mask 3 days now i am constantly sick and coughing and i have scars on my lung fix your houses yourself... i hate my life now i am 25 and from a healthy man I am weak!!! and no one will give me compensation in bulgaria
I would recommend leaving it on and painting it. As long as it is not deteriorating it will not pose a health risk. Removing it will unleash enormous quantities of asbestos dust into the air and should only be done by professional asbestos abatement companies.
Brake shoes by the billions filled the air with particles each time the brakes were applied. Why did this not impact life?
It did and it does. Roadways and roadsides harbor all sorts of nasty chemicals. Forever chemicals - asbestos, lead, oil, gasoline, etc etc.
Yes when I was a apprentice I remember the. a mark on the brake shoe boxes ,I would clean drums and shoes with soapy water,and latterly the company got a proper brake shoe washer system
Good stuff
I thought cocaine was the evil dust
12:05 If only she knew...
There’s no way this video is from the 1950s or 60s. Maybe the 90s or early 00s
Ya think?
😂😂😂 we know
01:48 Don't.
Capitalism is ruthless and knows no remorse .
I love to work with asbestos plates, grinding them with an anglegrinder
Choice is a beautiful thing. You go for it. With a vengeance.
Mrs. Adams doesn't speak very well for the camera
Most people during that era were awkward in front of a TV or movie camera. It was quite rare to be on camera back then unlike today where we constantly take videos of everybody/everything.
I wonder how much money Mrs. Adams got for filming.
Nothing is evil, asbestos exposure however was evil
😢
My grandma was around asbestos for years and she died at 93
Some people are life long smokers and live to 100
u lie in all post
Canada exports asbestos to india
Journalist wears HazMat suit and respirator in 130 degree heat for dramatic effect.
Fat guy in shorts and flip flops lives in exact area for 30 years and journalists wonders if he can take mask off for two minutes.
I see Australian TV is as stupid as American TV.
Would a house built in 1995 contain asbestos ?
No, not in U.S. or the E.U. Russia or India, yes, even today.
No only house built from 1937-1978 contain asbestos.
In 1978 US prohibited asbestos in construction
There may still be modern materials that have been slightly contaminated with small amount of asbestos. So dont break anything until you get it tested, best to way to keep a peace of mind
@@robertgarcia7377 This isn't true. Asbestos is 100% legal in the U.S. The only restriction is that asbestos can't be adopted for applications that it hadn't already been used to when that particular regulation was passed, which I believe was some time around 1980, and I think spray-on asbestos insulation specifically is banned.
You're still not likely to see asbestos in buildings from the 1990s (most asbestos in use today in the U.S. is actually for chemical plants), but that's only because it's no longer profitable to sell asbestos products in the U.S.
Plenty of people had contact with asbestos and are fine
As a small child in the very early '60s I was warned about asbestos by my father, not to scratch the iron stand on the ironing board, not to touch the lining of the fuse boxes etc. yes, even at that age I was expected to re-wire a fuse if it blew. There was also asbestos in other places, but I can't remember all of them now. He had reason to know about it, he worked as an architect for a paper company and had to work in mills containing it. He suffered no ill effects from his exposure to it, but died at a relatively early age from something quite unrelated; whether the asbestos would have got him if he had lived longer we will never know.
Until a few years ago I worked as an I.T. technician in a college. I quite often had to request a check on the asbestos register if doing any work such as lifting a ceiling panel to access cables. It's astonishing the range of products and materials which contained asbestos, even though much had already been removed over the years.
Yo Fucknugget what’s the point?
Plenty of people have driven a car when stoned or drunk and are fine ;) ;) ;)
This reminds me of how much the government and pharmaceutical companies covered up all the covid bs!
Be sure to get all of them boosters! 😅
Your conflated belief in COVID-19 misinformation with the established dangers of exposure
to asbestos isn’t worthy of a moment’s consideration. Mindless, idiotic nonsense.
Reported.
@27:38 "Looking back in light of present knowledge, it is impossible to feel that opportunities for discovery and prevention of asbestos disease were badly missed." Thomas Legge 1934 ex. Chief Medical Inspector of Factories.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------What the heck!! "Present Knowledge"?!! . . .this statement being made 90 years ago! As, to this day, people are still dying from Mesothelioma! GREED by those holding POWER and WEALTH leads to death for the common man . . . . PATHETIC!