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Kurai
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Used to work as a baker, was the only one who wore a mask despite the place being completely full of airborne flour.
Bakers lung is another that should be on there,
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It's interesting (albeit morbid) to speculate how many of these conditions we are only really finding out about now, as the people that would have got them in the past generally wrecked their lungs by smoking before any of these presented themselves.
Nef
NickCJ
Oh I’d definitely test. I guess part of my consideration is that people show concern for the tradesperson and their exposure to asbestos (which is a good thing to be concerned about) but they also ignore the vast dust exposure that tradesperson will experience. In the case of a plasterer, they’ll be working on dusty building sites or houses almost permanently, where the quantities of dangerous airborne particulates will be massive, and the culture for self preservation with regards to dust masks etc isn’t quite up to scratch.
It’s a bit of a sore point for me basically. As a tradesperson I spend all my time working in places that are savagely bad for my health. I try my best to mitigate these risks, but a lot of the time it feels like every tradesperson is basically exchanging health tokens for money. These places are dangerous and inherently bad for your life expectancy. So while the considerations for asbestos are well meaning, I find it rubs me up the wrong way as it is given such reverence and respect, but the huge amounts of day to day dust exposure aren’t (and I’d wager that a lifetime of working in dusty places will be doing most of the legwork when it comes to killing you with some form of lung disease).