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I cleared out all the popcorn ceiling in my 50s house with nothing more than a hand scraper and a box fan before I learned about this asbestos thing. Whoopsie!
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IPCRESS posted:Some states in Australia now have Industrial Manslaughter laws. Your employees die as an outcome of your actual* policies and procedures? You are an executive or a member of the board? Congratulations, you're in the running for an all-expenses-paid trip to prison. In addition to your fines. This needs to be universal practice decades ago, but also for financial crimes.
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Jose posted:Just hold your breath longer imo I find it easier to just hate all my co-workers. "Quick! Barry's entered an area with no O2!" "heh. He'll be missed."
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FCKGW posted:I cleared out all the popcorn ceiling in my 50s house with nothing more than a hand scraper and a box fan before I learned about this asbestos thing. Aren't the percentages in it extremely low? Maybe 3% in a completely pulverized ceiling is awful though? And if you just left it alone, then it would be pretty well encased and not prone to kamikaze-ing your body?
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:This morning it's OSHA-3, Florida Man-0. I like how the whole tone of the report is "What a tragic accident" rather than "somebody is going to pay heavily for these 3 completely avoidable deaths". The risk of encountering low-oxygen environments in confined spaces is extremely well-established and well understood and a few simple precautions would have prevented this from happening.
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Same scenario that we read about all the time: person A goes into an unventilated manhole and collapses. Person B goes for the rescue and collapses. Person C goes to help and collapses. Turns out that it was a cocktail of hydrogen sulphide and methane that got them. Ventilate your confined spaces, people.
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Pistol_Pete posted:I like how the whole tone of the report is "What a tragic accident" rather than "somebody is going to pay heavily for these 3 completely avoidable deaths". I feel like something very similar was posted not too long ago too 
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Ak Gara posted:I find it easier to just hate all my co-workers. Nice av/post combo.
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I'm pretty sure I've seen this here already but whatever. http://i.imgur.com/nB27Rzq.gifv
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Baronjutter posted:But regulations kill jobs, can't have that. You want air quality monitors? Well, you'll have to get rid of hard hats and safety shoes. Or maybe eye protection and high vis.
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REMEMBER SPONGE MONKEYS posted:Aren't the percentages in it extremely low? Maybe 3% in a completely pulverized ceiling is awful though? And if you just left it alone, then it would be pretty well encased and not prone to kamikaze-ing your body? We'll find out in 40 years I suppose.
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Baronjutter posted:But regulations kill jobs, can't have that. Can we just pay people to paint IF YOU GO IN HERE YOU WILL DIE on all the entrances? That'd create jobs!
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FCKGW posted:I cleared out all the popcorn ceiling in my 50s house with nothing more than a hand scraper and a box fan before I learned about this asbestos thing. I've done, and have to do that to another home, too. I was told that misting it down with a spray bottle first helps there not be any dust which can potentially be the bad part. Dunno how true that is, though.
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Keiya posted:Can we just pay people to paint IF YOU GO IN HERE YOU WILL DIE on all the entrances? That'd create jobs!
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AzureSkys posted:I've done, and have to do that to another home, too. I was told that misting it down with a spray bottle first helps there not be any dust which can potentially be the bad part. Dunno how true that is, though.
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asbestos is so goddamn sinister. a highly useful and abundant mineral that at first glance seems perfectly safe and inert. turns out it's a cancer machine and to top it off, the carcinogenic action isn't radiological or even chemical, it's loving mechanical. the poo poo's so finely grained it tangles chromosomes during mitosis.
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VectorSigma posted:asbestos is so goddamn sinister. a highly useful and abundant mineral that at first glance seems perfectly safe and inert. turns out it's a cancer machine and to top it off, the carcinogenic action isn't radiological or even chemical, it's loving mechanical. the poo poo's so finely grained it tangles chromosomes during mitosis. See also: chlorofluorocarbons No more ammonia leaks maiming everyone at the refrigerated warehouse! Now the sun belt is liveable! Put it in cans and use it to spray insecticides, paint, cooking oil, or practically anything! Tetraethyllead, though: everyone ought to have recognised the danger of that.
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VectorSigma posted:the poo poo's so finely grained it tangles chromosomes during mitosis. This shouldn't be possible.
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The Lone Badger posted:This shouldn't be possible. believe it quote:Mechanisms of Asbestos Carcinogenicity
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The old tiles on my roof were an asbestos concrete mix from the 80s and when I had some work done I had to pay a guy to come and do a full asbestos survey and he basically went "yeah I can tell just by looking that those are asbestos tiles because there's moss/no moss on them. Just don't grind them up and snort them and there's no problem". So that was £900 well spent.
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The Lone Badger posted:This shouldn't be possible. Have a watch of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJyUtbn0O5Y - biochemistry is exceedingly mechanical. It's amazing.
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Platystemon posted:See also: chlorofluorocarbons God bless Thomas Midgley  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZAnnvSOEmw
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I loved Midnight Oil and all their songs for most of my life . But after seeing this video I cannot see anything else: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLv5AGeIJeI Humphreys fucked around with this message at 12:58 on Jan 18, 2017 |
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Hexyflexy posted:Have a watch of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJyUtbn0O5Y - biochemistry is exceedingly mechanical. It's amazing.
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Tumblr of scotch posted:Is there a version with narration that explains what, exactly, all that's going on in that video is? Because while it's cool I have no clue about like 95% of it. The next video in the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzcTgrxMzZk
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To be fair, they were probably going to kill themselves on the trampoline anyway.
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Just put another trampoline on the ground and there you go!
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Mozi posted:Just put another trampoline on the ground and there you go! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXya2WoQKnE
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Platystemon posted:
Truck would be correct, but apparently that particular one could be described as a "pantech" truck, "pantech" van or just plain "pantech", derived from the old British "Pantechnicon van".  I'm surprised it wasn't just shortened down to one syllable with an "ee" on the end, though 
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I have never in my life heard pantechnicon or any abbreviation thereof used in Australia. The only relevant Google results are from people selling trucks, and I guess in that context it works as a term to distinguish them from other types.
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