methods for asbestos. Although OPSEU supports these changes, we still have a distance to go to fully protect workers. Asbestos is a substance that kills. The fire retardant material is often found in old buildings, in ceiling and floor tiles, mixed with cement, and around pipes. The fibres are so small that when people inhale them, fibres lodge in the lungs and may, after a long latency period (15-30 years), cause fatal diseases such as mesothelioma or other lung cancers. There have even been cases where family members of workers exposed to asbestos have developed asbestos-related disease from inhaling deadly asbestos fibres off the worker’s clothing without ever having been exposed to the substance in the workplace.
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