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Dandaps

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Been working on a site where the building has asbestos fascias and soffits. The main contractor has got specialist removal team doing encapsulation and removal from top lift . Now the site agent wants us to carry out alterations and add next lift for the roofers whilst the team are still removing asbestos basically around the corner on the gable. What do you fellas think is this wrong or ok
 
ask the asbestos removers what they think the risk is they will know better, I think it prob ok as the removers all work in confined space and hoover everything up but i think they should maybe raise a handover cert to say they have handed the scaffold back to you in a safe condition for use ie all their work is complete and clean
 
Ask To See The Clearance Certificates And If They Are Current And Signed Off, Fine If Not Dont Touch The Scaffolds Until Every Last Drop Of Dust Is Hoovered Up.
 
Yer asked them they said we be ok. Then one of roofers came to site and asked why we on scaff already give us all frighteners saying fack that we shouldnt be up there and all this stuff about pictures he seen on his asbestos course. Ive been on course but it didn't cover anything about working near removal team and couldnt find anything on tinternet.
 
Be careful big lad... even though they clean it, there may still be fibres stuck in the boards, i know they say there aloud so many fibres per litre of air. But i agree with SP, get a comformation from the asbestos removeres that the scaffold is safe..
 
Very Very nasty stuff It's the minute spores that embed in your lungs and can produce CANCER thirty or forty years down the road, or the week after you have inhaled it

HSE: Asbestos - health and safety in the workplace

All the information you will need to make an informed decision on asbestos can be obtained by following link above

If I had any concerns about inhaling asbestos dust, I would be off the job like greased lightning.
 
It should be made law that all scaffold works up for removal of asbestos removal must be plastic boards surly easier to get them asbestos free than wooden boards
 
MY DA DIED OF MESOTHELIOMA AGED 56 DIED WITHIN 6 MONTHS OF DIAGNOSIS DUE TO WORKING BESIDE LAGGERS WHO WERE STRIPPING THE LAGGING ON PIPEWORK.
get it checked and recorded as the fibres have been known to give wifes Mesothelioma etc when washing workwear.There was a very sad story of a lady who contracted it in Clydebank due to polishing her fathers work boots as a wee girl.THIS SHIIT IS NOT TO BE MESSED WITH
 
They Call It The Silent Killer Because It Can Lie Dormant For Thirty Years Or More, Horrible Stuff Horrible Way For A Man To Die.
 
Sorry for your loss happy. Im fortunate enough not to know anyone who suffers from it, and i hope i dont its fecking evil stuff.
 
We buried a family member just 1 year ago who died of Mesothelioma. Now, if I have any doubts on site about asbestos I leave - sooner lose pay than my life in this way.
 
Same thing got my old man,worked as a merchant seaman where all the pipes were lagged with asbestos. Took 40 years to show, nasty stuff needs clearance cert. I worked in oz many moons ago,the asbestos clearance program wouldn't allow anyone to work in cleared areas for 3 months. Here its the next day.
 
DEMAND to see a clearance cert from removal firm if employer can't produce one keep well away!!!
Asbestos is feckin evil.
Apparently those of us above the age of 40 or so were regularly exposed to it as kids but that dunt mean We should have to work with or near it now.
I personally have regularly refused to work on certain areas of power stations/refineries because I wasn't convinced all safety measures were in place.

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DEMAND to see a clearance cert from removal firm if employer can't produce one keep well away!!!
Asbestos is feckin evil.
Apparently those of us above the age of 40 or so were regularly exposed to it as kids but that dunt mean We should have to work with or near it now.
I personally have regularly refused to work on certain areas of power stations/refineries because I wasn't convinced all safety measures were in place.
 
Adolf Hitler made Abestosis a state pensionable disease in one of the first Laws he ever passed
Yet here in Britain in nearly 1 hundred years later there is still lobbying by some MPs and Lords for the use of Blue Asbestos in the UK
NEED I TELL YOU WHAT SIDE OF THE PARLIMENTARY BENCHES THEY ARE FROM:mad:
 
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