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Remember, they'd rather kill you than lose out on profit (kbin.social)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Jaytreeman@kbin.social to c/antiwork@lemmy.ml
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Remember, they'd rather kill you than lose out on profit

(https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/14/australia-will-become-the-first-county-to-ban-engineered-stone-bench-tops-will-others-follow)

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[–] Auzy@beehaw.org 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Someone I know was actually included in one of these reports and was on the news here in Australia

Really nice guy

Anyone who thinks this isn't serious are kidding themselves, last I heard, he'd lost a huge amount of lung function. Hopefully pink Batts are next. They can't be healthy

The crap thing are the people still arguing that should keep doing them, because they care too much what people think about their houses.

There is literally no good reason risking yourself for some rich asshole, and I regret a lot of things I did as a tradie now installing cables like climbing in potentially asbestos contaminated dirt under houses

[–] Jaytreeman@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago

It's wild to me that people don't see this as some type of attempted murder.

[–] anthropomorphized@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

Love the one downvote. Makes it seem like someone needs their counter top of suffering, more than the lives of those who made it

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Link doesn't work. I think the text and URL are reversed. Copy link just returns "url".

[–] Jaytreeman@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago

Thanks, I edited the post. Seems to work for me

[–] kamills@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Can't the stone be cut and handled without generating airborn dust?

[–] Mitchie151@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Some locations in Australia already had controls in place, such as requiring integrated water delivery systems and on tool dust extraction. PPE was a legal requirement on top of that. With all that it must have been decided it was still too dangerous, so I support the decision.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

In another post about the same one of the comments was that despite the regulations workplace safety was bullshit and more people got sick. So the authorities decided it's simpler to ban the thing altogether than to try to force everyone to comply to the regulations.

Not sure if that's a good decision but it seems like the one with less casualties

[–] Specal@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Airfed masks with the correct filter is perfectly fine. Combined with water suppression on the Stone cutting machine.

Decent ones can be pricey at about £700 each but that's cheaper than someone getting silicosis.

[–] kamills@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's what I figured. Sounds like they have a hard time enforcing and checking people get the correct PPE.

[–] Specal@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah my company offers "Wear your PPE or hand in your notice" mentality