Guidance for Controlling Asbestos-Containing Materials in Buildings

by Dale Keyes
Guidance for Controlling Asbestos-Containing Materials in Buildings
Author: Dale Keyes
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 125
Release: 1998-05
Genre:
ISBN: 078814314X
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Provides guidance on controlling asbestos-containing materials (ACM) found in buildings. Provides a current summary of data on exposure to airborne asbestos; gives survey procedures for determining if ACM is present in buildings; explains how to establish a special operations and maintenance program in a building found to contain asbestos; reviews technical issues confronted when assessing the potential for exposure to airborne asbestos, in particular indoor settings; suggests a structured process for selecting a particular course of action, and much more. Commonly referred to as the Blue Book.

Surviving Mesothelioma and Other Cancers

by Paul Kraus
Surviving Mesothelioma and Other Cancers
Author: Paul Kraus
Publisher: Surviving Mesothelioma
Total Pages: 7
Release: 2005
Genre: Cancer
ISBN: 0977290107
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In June 1997, Paul Kraus was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a very aggressive cancer, and given only a few months to live. More than eight years later, Mr. Kraus is alive with a good quality of life having rejected surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. Here, the author offers solid practical advice on: how to cope with the initial diagnosis; nutrition and diet; conventional and complementary therapies; the role of the mind in health and the principles of healing.--From publisher description.

Asbestos Control

by Wayne K. R. Johnson
Asbestos Control
Author: Wayne K. R. Johnson
Publisher: ASTM International
Total Pages: 109
Release: 1987
Genre: Air quality management
ISBN:
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"In this dissertation the issues associated with asbestos hazards, forms, uses associated diseases and the types of exposure to airbourne asbestos fibres, drawing together material from a number of sources. The managerial requirements are reviewed and summarised as an initial consideration in the establishment of a control programme. From this the principle of risk management develops and the management and control strategy for asbestos hazards forms, it includes elemenets such as removal, substitution, encapsulation and enclosure. Additionally, the peripheral areas of contractor selection, tendering control and education are discussed. The programme draws upon the latest Worksafe Australia Draft of Practice and Guidance notes." -- Abstract.

The asbestos lie. The past and present of an industrial catastrophe

by Maria Roselli, journalist
The asbestos lie. The past and present of an industrial catastrophe
Author: Maria Roselli, journalist
Publisher: ETUI
Total Pages: 2
Release: 2014-06-24
Genre: Asbestos
ISBN: 2874523135
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For decades asbestos was considered an ideal substance and therefore was called 'the mineral of the twentieth century'. Even though the fiber had already proven much earlier to cause various ailments, a real boom began in the 1950s and prospered everywhere in Europe. This book retraces the history of the Swiss asbestos cement company Eternit, investigating the strategy it developed – together with other asbestos industrialists – to prevent this carcinogen from being outlawed until, in 1999, an EU Directive was finally adopted to this end. The book also reviews the struggle of the asbestos workers and their families to gain official recognition of, and compensation for, the harm suffered.