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Cheers, hoping to retire from full-time work shortly although I'll be trying to pass on my experience as a Visiting Lecturer on Occupational Health & Safety at a London University for a few more years...

I would not disagree with this but not all ACMs present the same risk and in my experience a lot of unscrupulous 'professionals' have given very poor advice regarding asbestos. Which usually involved them subsequently making a lot of money from the situation.

Exactly what I was talking about, absolute nonsense and not risk assessment based, the asbestos contractors must have loved it!

Cheers, amongst my Consultancy Site Work I ran Asbestos Training Courses (Awareness/Surveying/Management) for many years.

Just because the Donald has said it doesn't make it untrue. Once applied, sealed and kept in good condition by proper management ACMs are 100% safe. If badly managed, poorly maintained and subjected to disturbance they may be 100% unsafe!

In regards to white asbestos it is generally accepted that as a 'serpentine' mineral the fibre morphology (curly) is totally different to all the other forms of 'amphibole asbestos' (they form long straight needles) and the clearance time via the bodies defence mechanisms is vastly quicker...

Don't agree, if you look at the epidemiology, Blue and Brown Asbestos are far more likely to cause cancers, in particular mesothelioma, than White asbestos. I didn't say it wasn't dangerous but the risk from most ACMs is hugely overblown from an Industry that has sprung up to 'Manage' it...

You are welcome, there is a huge amount of scaremongering about asbestos from people who want to make money from it. The facts are that most Asbestos Containing Materials are perfectly safe (and probably carrying out a useful function such as fire protection) especially if not disturbed...

It wasn't actually banned until 1999, although in practice virtually no-one was using it. Don't understand what you mean about 'asbestos not in a fibrous state'. That is the point about asbestos it is always in a fibrous state, although it is usually mixed in with other products...

Even less of risk than AC, although Asbestos Removal Contractors probably wouldn't agree as they would love to charge you hundreds of pounds to remove them. Vinyl floor tiles of a certain era (1950's to 1970's) contained a very small (less than 5%) amount of white asbestos but it was very...

As are most of mine at Jakarta Towers, you are more in danger of falling off your stepladder than getting an asbestos related disease when drilling through AC soffits.

Urban Myth, I have been working with asbestos surveys, management and removal for over 30 years. The THEORETICAL ability of a single fibre to start carcinogenesis is based upon in vitro studies. In actual fact you have to have significant exposure for this to happen (which means inhalation...