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The white stuff: asbestos: Australia's fickle friend.

Publication: Arena Magazine
Publication Date: 01-DEC-04 		Format: Online - approximately 912 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
I spent 1981 working for an air-conditioning firm that routinely used white asbestos sheeting on its production line. The stuff was fixed inside beating ducts by a designated employee, who habitually tossed off-cuts onto the factory floor. Most of these heating ducts were destined for hospitals. The heavy trolleys we used to trundle work around the building soon ground these chunks to powder. This non-union factory wasn't air-conditioned (though management's offices were) and we metal workers were enveloped in a constant fug of grey dust--especially on Friday afternoons, when we attacked the week's mess with brooms. Dust hung thickly in the air as we clocked off. By Monday morning it had drifted back to the floor, there to be kicked around until the next Friday, when it was stirred up all over again.

I resolutely...

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