Document QMb9QmjbZdz7VjexLjVgb6po7
FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA
DATE 1966 Oct 30
DOC NMA200
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Published Letter from The Sunday Times - Dockers
Fear Health Peril from Asbestos
a controversial
statement their fears
dockers unloadingunloading asbestos dockers
of
several dockers said were realbrealllay ygs they critical
" 4
Isnspecteorate nt when of Labour partiesMinistry If concerned of ephemeral exposure frightened over the risk from
2
ye
spokesman of the Ministry
causing meso- the dust and would much sooner
fy
People have got it feel safe than get extra
money
however referred me me to a letter on the findings of the the
many years asbestos
after
playing got on They complained
and probably
,
tips in childhood As fairly when cargo is dis-
Intsopecsteovraetreal wihnitecrhesthedas been King Edward Edward VII said of tuber- charged the dust scatters and
reports
that
parties '
the concentration concentration prevent'
preventable preventable why not may involve men not concerned
blue with
Crocidolite mainly " of borne
dust
was
| sems
found to to asbestos seems to be mainly res-
the unloading It may
settle on
of foods
also :
safety ponsible exceed the upper limits of
safety
packages packages
and may feasible to grocers shops
going _' when unlined hessian bags
of
dispense with it
"| What they unloaded was blue
entirely asbestos are unloaded
;
When asked to
on his asbestos in unlined hessian bags
comment rate of working
that in such working
report Dr Lawrence inti- labelled GEFCO GEFCO GEFCO Cenbestos
mated cases
that did not wish wish to One bag had burst and its con-
debate the
on the phone tents were distributed over the
matter Transport
its areas officers
Through Workers and Transport and General
General Union has
members
the not
advised handle cargo asbestos where
was others Asbestos _
gaping gaping
throughholes in many many
more
which made by the hooks
dockers insist on using
i)
authority A world ,
thelioma questioned by
attending Tokyo where he was attending
meso-
in
attending
PLcoAnsi'dersed that ;
more than one of PLA's
nouncements pro- nouncements
on this subject did did
ExeteIrndiaDocDkursban throughout throughout world accord with the published
is imported in permeable bags Since that policy has been enforced at Southampton safer bags have become the rule One ship was turned away because unloaded the from
.
On the West
Wednesday waiting
City of
last waiting to unload out of
others did
othersdid
so intermittently respirator so intermittently
scientist who has says tested
masks personally says it is hardly practicable to workin them
more for The
hour ,
solution is not merely
a
: :
matter
of
masks but
safer
methods of packing and loading
;
That aspect
of the problem is
now exercising the and ingenuity ingenuity of
doctors scientists and
ists
the
industrial- industrial-