Would You Sign Up For A Job In The Asbestos Jobs Industry? [ March 11th, 2010 ] Posted in » Health
It was probably up until around 1985 when the asbestos industry - mainly manufacturing and building companies - had been using asbestos liberally. And as a matter of fact, the US Army also had jobs in that area. Well, I was born in the early seventies and as I got old enough to help my father working on our house, we used to cut, saw and trim asbestos sheets almost every day to install them on the outside walls.
But let’s go back to the manufactures and construction companies in the asbestos field; over 1.5 million employees in the USA, to my surprise, are still working in the asbestos production or installation industry.
High in popularity are asbestos abatement jobs and asbestos removal jobs. Probably because more and more homeowners realized that they live in a house that contains asbestos and therefore want to be rather safe than sorry, so they decided to have it removed.
That’s a good thing in a way, considering our overall unemployment rate. However, people who were hired for those jobs are clearly at a higher risk since they are being exposed to the material on daily basis. Therefore, the law requires companies who provide jobs in that field, to install the highest safety standards in order to protect their employees.
But they are still exposing themselves to a great deal of danger, nonetheless. No protection suit or breathing mask can filter out the microscopically small particles that will eventually find their way into the respiratory system. It is common knowledge that asbestos is the cause for disease like mesothelioma and asbestosis.
And that explains the fact that we have quite a few law firms out there, solely offering services tailored to asbestos lawsuits and asbestos settlements. If a person can prove that his asbestos related illness was caused by an unsafe working environment, he will have a good chance of getting compensation money awarded.
A lot of money is involved in mesothelioma class actions; it’s more or less a type of a collective lawsuit. But all the money aside, working with asbestos is always a dangerous task.
So make sure that you are protected to the best you can whenever you have to work with this toxic material. Mesothelioma is a devastating cancer that grows slowly. It has poor prognosis. Therefore, everybody who employs in the asbestos industry is required by law to provide their employees with a safe environment.
The author of this article is a kidney cancer patient. On his website, he writes about cancer related topics like asbestosis info and collects stories such as “asbestos removal jobs”