Health Effects of Asbestos

Health Effects of Asbestos

Pliney the Younger AD61-114 wrote; “those people who mine and work with asbestos become ill”, from that point in history very little seems to be recorded insofar as the effects of prolonged exposure to asbestos fibre or products.In the absence of any great...
What is Asbestos

What is Asbestos

Asbestos is a fibrous mineral silicate with a crystalline structure that comes from a mineral rock. Over the millennia is has been used in building materials because of its high tensile strength, flexibility, resistance to chemicals, high temperatures and stress. As a...
Types of Air Monitoring

Types of Air Monitoring

Background Monitoring Background Monitoring is undertaken to determine a datum result prior to the planned disturbance of asbestos containing materials. The intent of any such test is to identify any preexisting conditions, or sources of fibre release, whereby the...