Asbestos alert around us

2011-06-11T03:06:00.000-07:00

Asbestos is commonly known in the market are mainly used for roofing materials, brake and as raw material for fire-resistant devices.

In its development, it was known that asbestos is very dangerous. From some experience, the use of asbestos as a building material has generated a lot of casualties. In Japan alone, a result of inhaling asbestos contaminated air, 500 people die of the world (1995). This number increased to 878 persons in 2003. And until then, the Japanese government banned all forms of buildings using asbestos materials. And in several countries in Europe, in the 80s started to ban asbestos as a raw material for the construction of houses or buildings will be occupied by humans. This was followed by many other countries like America, Sweden, Iceland and many other countries.
Asbestos Is it?
Asbestos is a mineral form of silica fibers are included in the serpentine group (krisotil which is a magnesium silicate hydroxide with the composition Mg6 (OH) 6 (Si4O11) H2O),and amphibole of rock-forming minerals, including: actinolite, amosite(Brown asbestos, cummingtonite, grunnerite), anthophyllite, chrysotile (white asbestos),crocidolite (blue asbestos), tremolite, or a mixture of at leastcontaining any of these minerals.
asbestos dust is asbestos particles flying / scattered in the air ordeposited asbestos particles which can be scattered into the air as dustwork environment.
Asbestos fibers can be inhaled asbestos particles diameter is less than 3 um andwhose length is at least three times the length of its diameter.
Asbestos dust can contaminate through:
(A) the mining or milling operations;(B) processing of materials containing asbestos or from the manufacture / productiongoods containing asbestos;(C) the use or the use of goods produced that contain asbestos;(D) activities to disassemble, open, dismantle, repair the damage (repair) ortreat goods produced that contain asbestos;(E) activities to destroy and destroy the factory buildings or other buildingscontaining materials berasbes;
(F) the transfer (transportation), stores and activities that causeoccurrence of physical contact or touch with asbestos or materialscontaining asbestos;(G) other activities which raises the risk of asbestos dust inair.

What the dangers of asbestos

Health hazards caused by asbestos dust:(A) asbestosis: fibrosis (which causes thickening and scarring of the lungs);(B) lung cancer: including cancer of the trachea;(C) mesothelioma: cancer in other parts of the respiratory tract such as cancer or pleuralperitoneum.Asbestos dust can also cause pleural thickening here and there (diffuse pleuralthickening) and the incidence of pleural plaques lining (circumscribed pleural plaques) that canleads to calcification.
Inhaled asbestos fibers will enter into the lungs and cause the connective tissue, inflammation, and adhesions in the lungs.

Patients will complain of cough, weight loss, shortness of breath during activity. Even when it has advanced, even at rest can occur crowded. What harm is shortness of breath continued to worsen even if the patient be kept away from exposure to asbestos.

Asbestos poisoning process does not happen in real time, toxins will attack humans Chrysotile cumulatively, the process will trigger Chrysotile infected human cancers occur within tens of years later. After 15 years of exposure, asbestosis can lead to the emergence of malignant pleural tumors (= Mesothelioma). These tumors are resistant to various kinds of therapy and prognosis is very bad.

Who is at risk of exposure to Asbestos?

Those who are at high risk of this disease are those who work in: manufacturing of pipes, welding industry, construction and ship building. Also includes those who use asbestos as roofing and materials containing asbestos.

So, from now on, let us be alert and avoid the occurrence of asbestos exposure that would be bad for our health.

Hazards of Asbestos Roof House

2011-06-08T05:54:00.000-07:00

Jakarta, Asbestos was widely used for roofing houses. In the long run continuously inhaling asbestos can pose a health risk. Asbestos enters the body through inhalation.

Impact of the dangers of inhaling asbestos fibers can not be seen in the short term. Sometimes symptoms of disease first appeared within 20-30 years after first exposure to asbestos fibers.

As quoted from Health.nsw, Friday (29/01/2010) asbestos fibers are inhaled and get into the lungs can cause asbestosis (scar tissue occurrence in the lungs), lung cancer and mesothelioma (a malignant cancer that attacks membrane mesothelium).

Risk of disease This will increase equivalent to the large number of asbestos fibers are inhaled. In addition, the risk of lung cancer from inhaling asbestos fibers greater than cigarette smoke.
This is caused by asbestos made up of tiny fibers separate easily, so that if the fibers are flying in the air and inhaled by the body would be harmful to health.
Usually this asbestos fibers can cause health risks if enters the body through inhalation. Small amounts of asbestos fibers in the air that is inhaled when breathing person will not be painless.
The average person just to asbestos in a number of very small and low risk to health. several studies show that asbestos-shaped sheet shows no significant health risk.
People who are very risky to have general health problems from asbestos or working in the mining industry.
But that does not mean the roof of a house made of asbestos is not dangerous at all, it's just a lower risk of health problems. Various forms of asbestos materials create different levels of health risk.
If the asbestos fibers in a stable form such as sheets and conditions are still good, then a small health risk. However, if the sheet is already damaged, perforated or wrong in terms of its use, it can menimbilkan higher risk.
Building materials are commonly used as a sheet of asbestos cement (fibro), drainage, chimney pipes, roofs or other building boards. Starting in the 1960s and 1970s, the asbestos fibers are widely used by the public as roof insulation.
To reduce the exposure of asbestos fibers and short-term prevention can do a few ways:

   1. Spraying water into the sheet of asbestos to prevent soil, dust or fibers    flying through the air.
   2. Closing the asbestos with plastic sheeting or tarpaulins to avoid exposure to weather.
   3. Preventing child to play on a roof made of asbestos Daria.    4. As much as possible to provide space boundary between asbestos premises rooms in the house.

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Hazards of Asbestos Roof House