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mesho-thelioma
Many people is surprised to learn, especially in the context of our modern understanding of its toxicity and harmful properties, asbestos is a natural and mineral extremely useful and not a material created by man. But what is even more surprising is that the toxicity and the potentially harmful nature of asbestos has made thousands of years!
Asbestos has been extracted from the soil and used for over 3,000 years! As in more recent times, ancient civilizations used first of all it has many uses. The Greek, Egyptian, Persian and Roman all used asbestos for various purposes, including hair, clothes, building materials, insulation and heat and flame retardants. Because of these properties, asbestos word itself derives the Greek term for unquenchable and the Greeks also called it the miracle or magic mineral in recognition of these properties.
The use of asbestos is regarded by many as a modern practice but clearly not. However, certainly the manifestation of serious health problems arising from the use of asbestos is a modern phenomenon? Yet again, the answer to this must unfortunately be put in the negative. It is because while former realized the considerable benefits of asbestos, they also realize that workers (mostly slaves) that operated for asbestos mineral soil and manufactured items incorporating asbestos develop lung disease. A Roman observer for the same time called for the protection of workers from the inhalation of asbestos fibres by the provision and use of a dust mask shape at the beginning.
There is a decrease in the use of asbestos in the middle ages. During the industrial revolution, there was a huge increase in the use of asbestos, more than at any prior time. It is now put in an even more range of uses, including insulation for pipes and boilers, steam locomotives, brake and clutch linings, doors etc. of fire, uses were almost without end its "magical" properties Millions and millions of tons of asbestos were used in these and many other ways for many years until its use decreased in the 1970s following growing pressure not to use because of the, by then, more widely known health risks. However, at this time of millions of workers had been exposed to damaging fibres. Miners and workers employed directly in the asbestos industry, their families and residents who lived near plants were also exposed. It is shocking to realize that often the workers return home after work covered in the research of like asbestos dust "snowmen" and expose their, often very young people, families in it. This resulted in members of family develop the same types of diseases asbestos often very serious as workers themselves developed.
As alumni before them, the Victorians began to carry out, or at least rediscover, the dangerous nature of asbestos fibres and the risk to the health of asbestos disease. In 1898, the annual report of the Chief Inspector of factories and workshops for the Government reported ' all dusty professions who came especially under observation in 1898 three... stand out because of their easily demonstrated danger to the health of workers and ascertained cases of injuries to the bronchi and lungs medically attributed to employment of people with a. These occupations have been asbestos spinning and carding.... The evil of asbestos dust effects also drew my attention, a microscopic examination of this mineral dust which was made by the medical inspector HM clearly reveals the sharp as glass particles serrated nature and where they are allowed to rise and remain suspended in the air of a piece, in quantity, the effects have been found might as could be expected.... The worker may continue for a long time before that the symptoms of evil becomes marked. "There was a lot more than reports, research papers and the changes in the legislation to follow to highlight the risk of disease asbestos for Governments and employers still despite this body of evidence, it took almost a century of an outright ban on the use of asbestos to be implemented! In the range of millions of workers were being exposed, sowing the seeds of a crisis of health reign now by thousands of workers who developed diseases of asbestos as a result. These diseases include malignant mesothelioma, asbestos, asbestosis lung cancer, pleural thickening and pleural plaques.
Unfortunately, during the same period, the use of asbestos increased until 1970 and despite changes in legislation to protect workers in reality very little action was taken by employers despite all evidence of the risks of asbestos disease. What is even more regrettable is that history shows that employers continued to expose their workers to asbestos will be full knowledge of the risks of asbestos disease and conspired to hide this information by the workers themselves who, in the vast majority of cases, were not aware of the risks or fully aware of the risks and how they can protect themselves against these risks! Simple steps could have been taken by employers to workers and give them some protection as masks, respiratory etc apparatus.
Unfortunately, the history shows that big business and the pursuit of high profits obtained appropriate warnings and the protection afforded to workers. In pursuit of the price for these large profits, the asbestos companies has hidden the inconvenient truth that asbestos is a potential killer of the most vulnerable and at risk. It is a hard fact suffers from asbestos illness have to swallow when they learn this coverage up to. It is worth remembering that there is no cure for the disease called mesothelioma asbestos and suffering people may have 9 to 12 months to live following diagnosis. It is a fatal and terrible condition.
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