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Guidance on Asbestos Risk and Health Issues

 

Chrysotile contains asbestos risk factors, and like all other forms of industrial asbestos risk needs to be treated with caution.

 

Mesotheliomas have been observed in people who were occupationaly exposed,  and residents who lived close to asbestos factories and mines. Brown asbestos, like all asbestos risk, is hazardous. Amosite and Crocidolite is the most hazardous of the asbestos risk types.

 

Asbestos risk exposure becomes a health concern when high concentrations of asbestos fibres are inhaled over a long time period. People who become ill from asbestos are almost always those who are exposed on a day-to-day basis in a job where they work directly with the material. As a persons exposure to fibres increases, either by breathing more fibres or by breathing fibres for a long time, that persons asbestos risk of disease also increases. Disease is very unlikely to result from a single, high level exposure, or from a short period of exposure to lower levels.

 

Other asbestos risk-related diseases

 

•     Asbestos Warts - caused when the sharp fibres lodge in the skin and are overgrown causing benign callus-like growths.

 

•     Pleural Plaques - discrete fibrous or partially calcified thickened area which can be seen on X-rays of individuals exposed to asbestos. They do not become malignant or cause other lung impairment.

 

•     Diffuse Pleural Thickening - similar to the above and can sometimes be associated with asbestosis. Usually no symptoms shown but if extensive can cause lung impairment.

 

For further advice on asbestos risk services offered by FibrecleanUK.com, please contact our office on 0800 917 35 70 or complete the online enquiry form - we will be happy to discuss your specific asbestos removal requirements and tailor an asbestos risk service to meet your needs.

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