You may not be aware of the significant dangers that are attached to asbestos, which was once a favoured building material, thanks to its great fire-resistant properties, yet in Australia, the use of asbestos has been banned since the early 1980s. While we can prevent the material being used, that doesn’t address the issue of the many thousands of structures that do contain asbestos, mainly built pre 1970s and such is the prevalence of asbestos, a whole new industry has emerged since the 1990s. Asbestos & Respiratory Disease There are numerous lung diseases that are caused by exposure to asbestos, such as asbestosis and lung cancer, which are caused by the inhalation of minute asbestos slivers that become airborne when the material is agitated. If you think there might be asbestos in
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