Rövid leírás:
Asbestos was once known as the ‘magic mineral’ because of its ability to withstand flames. Yet since the 1960s, it has become a notorious and feared ‘killer dust’ that is responsible for thousands of deaths and an epidemic that will continue into the millenium. This is the first comprehensive history of the UK asbestos health problem, which provides an in-depth look at the occupational health experience of one of the world’s leading asbestos companies – British asbestos giant, Turner and Newall.
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Hosszú leírás:
Asbestos was once known as the ‘magic mineral’ because of its ability to withstand flames. Yet since the 1960s, it has become a notorious and feared ‘killer dust’ that is responsible for thousands of deaths and an epidemic that will continue into the millennium. This is the first comprehensive history of the UK asbestos health problem, which provides an in-depth look at the occupational health experience of one of the world’s leading asbestos companies – British asbestos giant, Turner and Newall. Based on a vast company archive recently released in American litigation, Magic Mineral to Killer Dust gives an unprecedented insight into all aspects of the asbestos hazard – dust control, workmen’s compensation, government regulation, and the development of medical knowledge. In particular, it looks at the role of industrialists, doctors, factory inspectors, and trade unionists, highlighting the failures in regulation that accompanied the commercial development of a material that was already known to be lethal at the start of the twentieth century.
this is an excellent book, not only for the industrial health and safety professional, but for any reader interested in the problems of technology, and of managing the attendant risks: and for anyone interested (and that should be all of us) in the problems associated with achieving consensus on what is ‘acceptable’ risk. I fully commend it and heartily recommend it.
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Tartalomjegyzék:
A Physical Paradox
Dust Control and Mortality: 1931 to the 1940s
Medical Provision, Diagnosis, and Prescription
Compensation for Asbestos Workers
Death by Industrial Disease
Dust, Mortality, and the Cancer Hazard: 1940s to the early 1960s
Countervailing Forces
Lighting the Powder Trail
The Asbestos ‘Bomb’ Explodes
Turner & Newall on Trial
An Acceptable Level of Death
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