Asbestos in Construction: Workers

This video contrasts the inexperience of a young worker in the construction industry and the experience of a worker who is dying from exposure to asbestos.

Related videos in our Asbestos in Construction series:

Please note that the B.C. Association of Restoration Contractors amalgamated with the BCCSA in 2016.

[TheWalonja]

thats why we have extrem rules/laws for it in germany and i love it

[isaiahmcclure]

This needs to be nominated for a grammy

[stephenmasek]

Excellent! I like to show it in my asbestos training classes.

[jackriley]

In 1970 I worked as a carpenter on the school where Tyson learned to box. The soffits and skirts were made of Transite (a cement/asbestos product) which we cut with a circular saw utilizing a carborundum blade without any form of protection. That created such gray cloud that at times you couldn't see the line you were cutting. I spit gray and picked gray for about two months. Since then, through the VA, I've had several scans, and evidently suffer no ill effects. Luck of the Irish??

[JSMultimedia-fwow]

One time exposure won’t necessarily kill you. It’s if you work with it unprotected day after day. Never go around it without good PPE.

[brianticas]

Damn I am worried like fuck. I start working with asbestos next week. Hopefully I'll be safe.

[KillVrïłł]

I work with this stuff alot and with no protection I'm very worried

[joshrepp]

Luck of the draw. For every job site full of people that breath that stuff in may be one gets mesothelioma 40 years later. Maybe none get it. Luck of the draw. Millions of Americans have breathed asbestos yet only around 3, 000 cases are diagnosed each year. Consider yourself one of the lucky ones.

[Hardworkwork]

Asbestos killed my dad. Once diagnosed, he has just a little over a year before he died.