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Occupational Risk
Amongst best known illegal occupational risk factors are asbestos, benzene, alphatoxines, aromatic amines and formaldehyde.
Asbestos
What can exposure to asbestos lead to?
Exposure to asbestos can increase risk for illnesses such as asbestosis (a chronic lung illness), mesothelioma (lung membrane cancer), lung cancer and other kind of cancers (larynx, oropharynx, gastrointestinal tract and kidney)
What is the extent of the risk?
Not all workers exposed to asbestos develop a disease from the ones mentioned. Risk varies with the length of exposure and with different factories. The diseases are caused by inhalation of asbestos fibres, so not workers alone are exposed to the risk, but also who lives with them, since they could inhale fibres deposited on clothes.
Many epidemiological studies have shown that a combination of exposure to asbestos and smoke leads to a much higher risk for lung cancer.
What can be done to avoid exposure to asbestos?
Since years asbestos is banished in all European Countries and the final goal would be total dismantling (from houses and harbours above all).
Presently, the issue many countries are confronted with is where to deposit the dismantled asbestos with no dust spread in air, as this would cause a higher risk than the one that existed before its dismantling.
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