It Won’t Happen To Me

Unfortunately, all too often, this is the rationale behind many a tradesman’s thinking when it comes to asbestos and its lethal effects.

We should all learn then from a very tragic case that came to light in Ireland recently where three members of the same family died as a result of exposure to asbestos. To make matters worse the three that died were two brothers and their sister.

The one brother was involved in cutting asbestos sheets for the building trade in the 1960’s, the other brother was a pipefitter in Australia in the 6o’s and 70’s and their sister was exposed to it when she washed her builder husbands overalls after he had been working with asbestos.

Three people, all suffering the same fate, all exposed in different places at different times, but all three dying from a mesothelioma, a tumour around the lungs which has a more than 90% association with asbestos exposure.

So please don’t think “it won’t happen to me” think carefully about what you do and think about booking onto one of C&D’s Asbestos Awareness courses.

Here's a link to HSE’s Mesothelioma campaign video:

http://www.hse.gov.uk/asbestos/campaign/video.htm