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THE OBSERVER, SUNDAY IS AUGUST 1982 PLAINTIFFS EXHIBIT by MARTIN BAILEY :vu - .$ . . -.. THE BRITISH asbe_s_t_os Invelueby fIT mflllsu-dtif*- tceordlag to Dr Bradley; company Turner &....N...e...w...a..l.lIn* the pest two week* be* partly bee suss of pressure exposed its Swaafland c..au. se of mounting cbnc_e_r_n__o_f f_r_o_m_.-..t.h..e media* He said: workers to dust levels more than 2S time* above* the safety*/* tinda f d. allowed/- by". company asbestos -TbSstudy Kayelock, 60 poef rtheemim--t !'o*l--hwen'ea*dr byT*N 4nd40percedtby 'Turners , tbea msda a rsal weWrImtfefutop*t,rtrato**1vga1ein*mr-dasgentiinbvrgete.a*innnragCttowoofrmasa.pnseabnemsi1atao,t0isjoo0inar0 policy, according to an un/ the Swaslland GovarnnwnL w sTiOBO. oubllshad report obtained was prepared`by the Cardiff* B-u-f--c-onditions-at Ha" velock, by Thx Otsznvat,:, <! `.. based, - Medical Research have* contradicted T & N't The nudv reveals thetfiim. CouncE's : Pneuaocenlosia public stand.. Mr Patrick 1976. Althoujgh .they hev'e s_i_n__c_e_d_e__e_rs_a_sect Lthey are sdll saboovre,, thbes company's safety The ftmlts of thS^itudy. which is. due to. bs publlshtd il*stter *th*}i"s 7yea*r iIin tn. t British Current British (safety)i Standard . ... In our factories tbcoughout. tho world.* standard in pens of the plant, Journal of Industrial Medi- . Tho UK legs] limit, intro* oaTrebde HbyavethloeckUiKtudSy#,<5pcrea*i*. dpenrii\od claiumnstil tha1t976f.or. the no c_du_u_cc_em_d_,_inwh1i9c6h9,wisill2 fibres per shortly be Research Council,-also re- accurate-estimates of dust ^reduced to 1 fibre. Yet sc 1 reals that.nearly s third of the workers sampled In. 19786 exposure are monitoring of tphoessaibilreb, oarsnecth.o.e.r..d.l.ie.n.v.g.e..l.t.o.a..t.t.h.H.e.a..v.C.e..al.o.r.cd..kiffwsatusdlA Maur bad - developed' asbestosis. dust w' as not started ' until times this figure in 1976, and The company** fortper doctor then, in .Swtnlthd, Dr Anthony- . Sivi Bradley^who helped write the DanttGrOUS report,.admit? that he wes- `Blevels of exposure, have been decreasing * :e then. ' `shocked- ar the rresuuIlt*;. ,T0iDu*r.dBoracdtloery`,twhrhTMo ihou^*Aa' du,t `re in the `Before the survey we had ltaock''s* doctor throughout the CasgtiTstudy. But Dr Bradley simply be . misdiagnosing f1f9O70*s,, jhiaaas adnmUitted to p* when he left Have- islwhat curbed.out to be asbes* ws**v*n that although tocwrwo years ago, the maxi* tosia.' he said. . ' . Aero "* no regular mooi* aiuS level at the mill was IS roand TAN, the.company at the -toring. dust levels were re* gbrea. Last wiek a company by RI such centre.,of * row over the cerded on an occasional spokesman told Thk Oasan* >unds, Yorkshire Television, film bn*i* Thesa figures, fid said, van.that the average personal brita the rssary ilstles Club i ex* who ` Alice.* secretly, considered. showed that white asbestos closing down the* mine three dust levels in some pans-of veers ego...But Dr Bradley, the- mill exceeded SO fibres who! ha*, since left TAN. per cu cm. . said: ` It was right not to shut Even outside the mill, con- down the ` mine because of dittons wero also dangerous. exposure for the 2,100 workers at Havelock was now below two fibres, and only 4 per cent of the work force received the equivalent of between two and three fibres. ing as month United Indian Diego s cu Irswa ijunc* lets, tiouth were reed jf re* tame, from Ports* ni tiiant IIwell pbS s U the affect it would have had on unemployment' . * But even now, according to the- study, 'In dry, windy The Cardiff .study points out that until 1970 asbestos was packed into hessian sacks and transported on a 13-mile But some dusty parts of the plant were therefore still above the UK standard. weather dust from the mill serial ropeway, 'which re- The C__a_r_d_iff _s_tu_d_y con* and waste dps is blown over suited in the workers on the eluded that 43 per cent of the whole area, so that even ropeway receiving a high the workers in the dustiest estate workers are exposed to dust exposure.' A T & N pub- areas of Havelock had the "background" leveL* ucity photograph shows developed asbestos pneumo* These new revelations nearly a hundred children coniosis or asbestosis. Over* about T & N*s safety stan- playing outside the mine all, 30 per cent of the 438 dards ere likely to put fur- school, a hundred yards from workers in thesample had ther pressure on the company the mill and it* waste tips, contracted the first stage of to reduce dqst levels. Its In 1976 a dust suppression the lung disease, known as share* have already dropped'' programme was introduced, category 1 pneumoconiosis. ____ill-___' - ________ Aneerc new f Maurit In an last we tain as sorereii `both wrong.' lease o has sp million the W, military Ocean.' The Chaaoi