Why asbestos still remains a global hazard | DW News 

I'm sure people are told about it but just ignore it. I worked at a job with silica dust and I was the only one who would wear a mask even though everyone knew the dangers

You can just as easily be hit by a car, can’t make the world hazard free.

@@yp77738yp77739 yeah but people also tend to look left and right before crossing the street. so you say you dont do that?

@@EudaderurScheiss 1879 was the first noted anomaly and the first formal diagnosis was in 1935. Took many decades for any action to occur. Asbestos, isn’t a problem, providing it is known where it is and it isn’t aerosolised. The same way that cars aren’t a major risk if you look left and right, however, still, far more people are killed in car accidents than die from asbestos. Or at least that’s what the empirical evidence indicates. The death stats from smoking or alcohol are far higher than both combined. Rather like covid, the harm caused by the mitigating actions was equal or greater than the harm caused by the disease itself, that was certainly what the only sensible nation, Sweden, proved.

​@yp77738yp77739 That's what i say to those crazy gun control people lol

My dad worked at the docks, as a welder inside ship halls in the 1980ties. Last year he suddenly stopped eating and two months later he died from Asbestos related lung cancer.

May the Glorious Eternal Beloved Heavenly GOD Rest the soul of Everyone good and everyone good who died to ssbestos,Amen Eternally

@II-wx4kv Yes. It was a hassle. I warned our neighbors of it because our houses were all built around the same time.

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Tough call if it is mixed or embedded into other materials .

No need to worry. The video forgot to mention that asbestos is only dangerous when processed (manufacturing, construction demolition etc). So just make sure that you order asbestos checks before major renovations in your house built during the time of usage of Asbestos in your country.

There are environmental test labs which can identify asbestos for you. My Dad's approach was to treat any suspected fibrous material as if it is asbestos. That's probably why he thought fiber glass insulation being asbestos. I suspect though that fiber glass is also highly suspect of potentially causing lung disease as does silica. I agree with his conservative approach. The shipping company provided his ships with so much extra paint that he laughed at how white they quickly painted the ship's deck before inspection and got praised by the inspector. They poured buckets of paint upon the deck and used brooms to spread it around. That was the *WHITEST* deck the inspector had ever seen ! 😂

If one has to work with asbestos dust, one should clean up afterwards using a vacuum cleaner with *HEPA* filter and wet mop the area clean. Avoid getting any dust into the air. As my Dad had taught me to be conservative about being exposed to asbestos, glass fiber, silica dust, etc., I only use HEPA-filter equipped vacuum cleaners nowadays to avoid generating dust. Wet mopping floors also help mitigate dust.

One should wear proper equipment such as face masks or respirators of HEPA quality and other PPEs and environmental control such as sheeting and sealing tape. When done, also take a whole-body shower and remove any dust from one's body. The whole point is to keep asbestos fibers from being inhaled by anyone. Dust abatement can do that.

went to home school in 8 th grade. only been to a hospital several times in nearly 30 years of life and only once for more than a few hours,still just a few days. i think i might've briefly been in a court house when i was i think 12, i just remember my dad had paperwork that had to be physically rushed to be delivered and i recall having to leave my knife in the car,considering it was Oakland California i was hesitant but i can't remember anything else. im sure i might have some very limited exposure, but with my health problems i won't live long anyway so im not concerned.... im here for a good time, not for a long time.

@@bloodlove93 I am sorry to hear about your health issues. I have been struggling myself, since my birth, with several eye diseases - which made my left eye legally blind. And, recently, my father in Law moved with me with tongue cancer, which is a more impactful disease. Not only he stopped eating by his mouth, but also he is not able to speak as clear as before. It is an overall challenge for the entire family. Do you have lung cancer as well as the people who contact with asbestos regularly?

Immoral air-conditioning outfits disregard CFC regulations and continue to release CFC from old refrigeration equipment into the atmosphere.

🎶 It is not even a real country anywaaaaay 🎶

No because asbestos is a wonder fiber

im so sorry😔 how old was he..

Everyone should know where asbestos is and keep it well-maintained (such as by painting over it to bind together the asbestos fibers -- my Dad worked about three decades on British Merchant Navy ships and serviced their boilers and piping probably lined with asbestos -- he warned me upon seeing glass fiber insulation believing that it was asbestos so yes, I appreciate his efforts to guide me as well as he could as an illiterate person) not allowing it to frat and disperse into the air

Slightly wetting by spraying the asbestos first with soapy water to reduce dust creation first before painting over it can prevent its fibers from being frayed and dispersed into the air where people and pets can breathe it into their lungs. As *undisturbed* insulation, asbestos is just like rock. Removing it from where it is to a buried site may actually create more dispersal of asbestos fibers than keeping it working where it is. For example, asbestos on my Dad's ships' boilers and piping was immobilized with paint.

It is cheap and fireproof, that is all.

@@setcheck67it filters gas too, its lightweight its the best

How old was he😊

74...he fought it till the end. He used to sweep the floors with it at B.C. Hydro Burrard thermo plant at 17 and continued to work with it before they knew it was a hazzard, back in the 60's & 70's. @@alphagenie7716

He used to come home and his pants were covered with the dust from work. He was worried later he would infect all of us with it. @@alphagenie7716

Studies show that Navy veterans in particular were impacted by Asbestos related diseases because of the close confines of the ship and how widespread asbestos use was. It didn’t kill everyone obviously but it killed many before their time.

Most fine particles are bad to inhale - including smoke and dust.

@@justayoutuber1906 Talking about cancer.

I can live with well-maintained asbestos in the same way that I can live with lead-acid battery in my car. I don't use or buy any asbestos-containing product anymore but I leave the existing well-maintained asbestos alone painted over. My Dad could repair boilers and piping probably insulated with asbestos for about three decades without any problem with asbestos-induced diseases. I think that his employer made sure that he knew what precautions to take. He was conservative in not wanting to risk his health or life unnecessarily. He was probably the "designated survivor" of his parental family and he survived the influenza pandemic, the Second Sino-Japanese War, as well as WWII's U-boat torpedoing and sinking his ship in the Battle of the Atlantic and the Great Pacific War. Eat slowly and be patient when eating fish to avoid bones. When all hope is gone, know how to surrender submissively to the ones who had torpedoed his ship. All his (over ten of them) siblings died of the scourges of diseases, biowar, and major wars. Knowing that one's own life is precious and acting patiently with great situational awareness definitely helped.

My Dad was a fireman shoveling coal to feed the fire 🔥 boiling water to make steam in order to outrun the U-boat powered by liquid fuel, diesel. It's like boiling tea as quickly as possible in order to avoid becoming shark food when the ship sinks below the sea surface and the boiler explodes in a huge steam explosion.

All other countries are probably safer than New York and Washington D. C. It's been proven on 2001-Sep-11. About three thousands civilians were murdered in lower Manhattan. We are the land of the free and the home of brave. Dare you live in New York or D. C.? I don't mind. Do you ?

Ultra left 😂 Educate yourself in politics.

@@christianzilla why do you laugh? Seems like you are an expert in politics.. can you recommend where I start?

@@pattheegreat I apologise for laughing, but your statement seemed absurd to me. I am no expert in politics, my grounding comes from observation and study. There are many good books that lend clarity and much online that muddies the waters of understanding, particularly social media (including RU-vid). There is much profit in confusing people and obfuscating what left wing and right wing actually are. Also know that there has been an age old class war that is waged daily but only one class fully knows it exists. Try to learn the true definitions of names of political movements and where they truly fit on the political spectrum as there is a lot of posturing and perception management.