Asbestos, Its use is prohibited by their health risks and the environment

Asbestos, also known as asbestos, refers to a group of six resistant and flexible material that can withstand high temperatures. In addition, there are numerous sites around the world and its cost of extraction is low. Because of these characteristics, it has been used extensively as a building material in tiles, slabs, tiles, paper, cement, automobile industry in clutches, brakes, transmission components, or in various textile materials, packaging coatings.

According to the analysis, asbestos is widespread in the environment in small amounts, but higher levels are found in cities and industrial areas where the risk of contamination. Most buildings built between 1965 and 1984 in Spain are asbestos, either in its entirety or in building their facilities. Some expert’s estimates that live between three million tons of asbestos throughout the country

Asbestos fibers are safe if they stay solid. However, if you are released by improper handling and passing water or air are harmful to health. In this sense, asbestos is associated with various lung diseases, including lung cancer. Studies also suggest that breathing asbestos can increase the chances of getting cancer in other parts of the body, although this is more uncertain. In addition, the combination of exposure to asbestos and snuff increases the chances of getting lung cancer.

The number of asbestos-related diseases cannot be calculated accurately, and cancer caused by asbestos does not appear immediately but occurs after several years, a period that ranges between 15 and 40. Therefore it is very difficult for a worker who was exposed for years to prove the causal link with asbestos and claim as an occupational disease. However, some reports indicate that over the coming years about 30,000 people die each year from cancer in developed countries caused by inhaling asbestos fibers. Oncology experts have predicted that in 2010-2020 there will be an explosion of cases of cancer from exposure to asbestos. In Spain, the Ministry of Health estimated at 400 deaths per year related to work with asbestos.

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