My ex-boyfriend got severe sillicosis or acute sillicosis around 4 years ago. He is at 1/20th of his usual strength. He will probably only make it another couple of years he thinks. Its really good that he is still ok or alive. Use a respirator and be alive. He got this only after a few years of exposure. Really ware a mask to save your life. He says to just remind people that they will be so sick and will want to die because it hurts so much and is very uncomfortable not being able to breathe
What about small communities being covered in silica from non-complying nearby sandstone mines??? There is never any research regarding man made silica dust within the environment & the impact on surrounding communities!
Silicosis is no joke. Affects all sorts of working class people within variety of industries. There was a huge epidemic of silicosis on textile workers in my country back in the day (Turkey), main reason was the sanding process of the jeans, which could show symptoms even after a few years. It's horrible and I don't wish that even on my worst enemy. I've seen many of my experienced colleagues dropping sick and they literally can't breathe properly, let alone work at full capacity.
4 years ago i worked in brompton sa doing plumbing in appartments . The team that won the internal cladding contract hired english speaking foreman with a asian workforce in which i estimate 70% didnt speak english . On safety inductions for new workers on site a translator was needed to interpret what was required from workers . I would be cutting penetrations for pipes in bondeck sheeting with a oxy cutter and i would close of the the floor below and tell the workers in the area what i was doing just to find asian gyprockers working directly under me . These same workers were lining walls with hebel which is a product with silica in it . They would 80% of the time not use a wet cut saw and vacuum because they were under the pump to finish up so other trades could come thru and work. Unfortunatley i still had to work near them and i would constantly complain to safety officer manager and the cladding boss about what was happening and what the jsa job safety analysis was for cutting hebel it was a joke i was breathing in this my clothes were full of dust my tools were allways completely covered and they didnt care its time that matters to them. Money money money the industry is a sickening place to work i called safe work sa on the builder after scaffolding which was being dismantled was being thrown from 4 stories up in a access and eggress zone in which every one entered the site. I walked out i see a truck with a person on it talking to someone on the ground who i find out is a spotter he turns around and yells stop. I stop and a scaffold plank hits the ground 1 step away from me. I start verbally abusing them tell the safety officer then go home and call safework sa. This partially worked the site was made safe and a safety meeting was called the next day in which the safety officer asked for anyone who wanted to call safe work sa should tell him first about the problem before calling as he was saying this i told everyone he was lying . They asked if it was me that called i told them no it wasnt which stressed me for lying and they said it must be those bloody sprinkler fitters. My plumbing boss unfortunately was subbing the sprinkler fitters and this in turn affected him . Its funny how safety is paramount when it comes to talking or signing your life away on a jsa and how if you complain the builder then makes it harder for you as somesort of punishment . I also worked in original royal adelaide hospital and the asbestos meters would read of the charts when plumbing in celing spaces and being a plumber we would work under the wing being renovated in wings still being occupied.you would walk out of the room with the alarm sounding just to see nurses patients doctors and the like not knowing any better about whats in the air. Moral of the story fuck the construction industry and everthing that helps it keep going.
The probable is people don't care about people anymore. You did the right thing by bringing safety concerns up but the lack of leadership forced you to call safe work. I wonder what they would have said to you if you told them it was you that called. Good luck in the future!
Last thing what about the dust left from cutting hebel on site it goes everywhere it was in finished ceiling spaces walls everywhere and still will be whilst people then occupy . Whilst the safety worker was with the hebel installers boss i had enough and took my 18v circullar saw and a piece of their hebel went up to them and threatened to cut it and cover them in this dust that i was getting covered in and that enough was enough . The safety officer then told me if i have safety problems go to your plumbing foreman and tell him so i told him lets go to your building manager and tell him thats what you want which wasnt legal he was not happy .
Also i confronted a hebel istaller telling him if you breath this dust it will kill you and people around you dont you want to go home to see your family and he cried saying he cant go home to his family they are in his home country and he was woking for them . You just cant win in construction it makes trades fight and is very stressfull. IGNORANCE IS BLISS and this industry is horrible and now i cant even handle seeing something like opal towers now i just feel sorry for the people it affects and unfortunately its mentally affected me .
Please help spread awareness of silicosis. My aniexty has been so hard to control because of being taken advantage of hopefully someone can create a cure for this horrible disease I worry everyday that I will die from going to work and working hard my employer never informed us of the dangers and never provided any protectionI wish osha or someone would have told me the dangers of drilling into concrete i had no idea my employer never gave me any kind of protection and never told me of the dangers we were carpenters and had to attach wood to concrete or drill tie down holes blow out the holes with air and epoxy the all threaded rods in never realized its fatal with no hope no cure no treatments.my life has been turned upside down and no one would even investigate the company they denied it and osha said they needed a 3 day notice prior to drilling which the contractors know and know there untouchable. My life is ruined at 35
The rescuers in USA on 911 got respiratory problems because they didn’t wear respirators to protect against the dust from the building materials. The rescue efforts in Indonesia has the same problem. Rescuers are not protecting themselves against the dust.
Hi, CFMEUVIC ! I'm trying to find up to date AUSTRALIAN info, if any, on environmental exposure to nanoparticles in the environment originating from quarries where blasting, extraction, crushing, vehicle transfer, transport, wind movement from stockpiles etc etc occurs. It has been confirmed that NO correct (or even no) dust, wind etc monitoring is being done at the quarry site or the site where processing has occurred for nearly 30yrs! The quarry is currently expanding & increasing production of a source of silica of (officially measured) 98% purity. There are small & larger rural properties around both sites mentioned .. some as close as 700metres & others at 1-2 klms away and everywhere in-between. The town itself is less than approx. 7klms in a straight line from the quarry & processing sites. ALL the rural area properties depend on tank &/or dam water for all water sources, both household & stock uses. The town has a large dam for town water supply. Transport of large quantities of blasted materials is trucked to the current processing site a few klms away, right up to the edge of town areas. I am living 1klm from the quarry site & have witnessed large clouds of dust emanating from the source after blasting. I've even taken photos where my camera picked up a yellow toned light refraction in the white dust cloud from a blast .. I was 750ft from the source. There are many predominant winds in the area .. we are located in a northern area of the Great Dividing Ranges. Both 'westerlies' & easterlies' can be quite fierce .. and last for days. There seems to be little information 'out there' that residents close by or in town are able to acquire .. are we likely to develop health issues? Is our water being contaminated from our roofs? Will we be ingesting this dust from our water & home grown produce? Are our rural roads (some have been graded with this product) likely to produce nanoparticles with traffic use? Quite a few people have tried to get the correct info from various sources .. our Council, local Govt. representatives, the company involved etc & some concerned people have even had various tests on several samples from both sites done at their own expense .. which confirmed the purity level of the Silica at 98%. The EPA has found what many people saw in a recent DA .. incorrect & conflicting or even absent statistics .. while our local Representatives are absenting themselves from any discussion with concerned residents, where do go from here? It seems like a lot of regulations have been ignored &/or broken here for years! If anyone could help, we would be eternally grateful .. if we had an eternity, but I doubt we have .. send me links etc ..
I see coworkers expose them selves to coal dust and flyash and won't wear a respirator even though it is free. People just love to hurt themselves and supervisors enjoy not having to bother with them.
My ex-boyfriend got severe sillicosis or acute sillicosis around 4 years ago. He is at 1/20th of his usual strength. He will probably only make it another couple of years he thinks. Its really good that he is still ok or alive. Use a respirator and be alive. He got this only after a few years of exposure. Really ware a mask to save your life. He says to just remind people that they will be so sick and will want to die because it hurts so much and is very uncomfortable not being able to breathe
What about small communities being covered in silica from non-complying nearby sandstone mines??? There is never any research regarding man made silica dust within the environment & the impact on surrounding communities!
Silicosis is no joke. Affects all sorts of working class people within variety of industries. There was a huge epidemic of silicosis on textile workers in my country back in the day (Turkey), main reason was the sanding process of the jeans, which could show symptoms even after a few years. It's horrible and I don't wish that even on my worst enemy. I've seen many of my experienced colleagues dropping sick and they literally can't breathe properly, let alone work at full capacity.
4 years ago i worked in brompton sa doing plumbing in appartments . The team that won the internal cladding contract hired english speaking foreman with a asian workforce in which i estimate 70% didnt speak english . On safety inductions for new workers on site a translator was needed to interpret what was required from workers . I would be cutting penetrations for pipes in bondeck sheeting with a oxy cutter and i would close of the the floor below and tell the workers in the area what i was doing just to find asian gyprockers working directly under me . These same workers were lining walls with hebel which is a product with silica in it . They would 80% of the time not use a wet cut saw and vacuum because they were under the pump to finish up so other trades could come thru and work. Unfortunatley i still had to work near them and i would constantly complain to safety officer manager and the cladding boss about what was happening and what the jsa job safety analysis was for cutting hebel it was a joke i was breathing in this my clothes were full of dust my tools were allways completely covered and they didnt care its time that matters to them. Money money money the industry is a sickening place to work i called safe work sa on the builder after scaffolding which was being dismantled was being thrown from 4 stories up in a access and eggress zone in which every one entered the site. I walked out i see a truck with a person on it talking to someone on the ground who i find out is a spotter he turns around and yells stop. I stop and a scaffold plank hits the ground 1 step away from me. I start verbally abusing them tell the safety officer then go home and call safework sa. This partially worked the site was made safe and a safety meeting was called the next day in which the safety officer asked for anyone who wanted to call safe work sa should tell him first about the problem before calling as he was saying this i told everyone he was lying . They asked if it was me that called i told them no it wasnt which stressed me for lying and they said it must be those bloody sprinkler fitters. My plumbing boss unfortunately was subbing the sprinkler fitters and this in turn affected him . Its funny how safety is paramount when it comes to talking or signing your life away on a jsa and how if you complain the builder then makes it harder for you as somesort of punishment . I also worked in original royal adelaide hospital and the asbestos meters would read of the charts when plumbing in celing spaces and being a plumber we would work under the wing being renovated in wings still being occupied.you would walk out of the room with the alarm sounding just to see nurses patients doctors and the like not knowing any better about whats in the air. Moral of the story fuck the construction industry and everthing that helps it keep going.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I hope you have left construction industry and you health is in good shape.
The probable is people don't care about people anymore. You did the right thing by bringing safety concerns up but the lack of leadership forced you to call safe work. I wonder what they would have said to you if you told them it was you that called. Good luck in the future!
Last thing what about the dust left from cutting hebel on site it goes everywhere it was in finished ceiling spaces walls everywhere and still will be whilst people then occupy . Whilst the safety worker was with the hebel installers boss i had enough and took my 18v circullar saw and a piece of their hebel went up to them and threatened to cut it and cover them in this dust that i was getting covered in and that enough was enough . The safety officer then told me if i have safety problems go to your plumbing foreman and tell him so i told him lets go to your building manager and tell him thats what you want which wasnt legal he was not happy .
Also i confronted a hebel istaller telling him if you breath this dust it will kill you and people around you dont you want to go home to see your family and he cried saying he cant go home to his family they are in his home country and he was woking for them . You just cant win in construction it makes trades fight and is very stressfull. IGNORANCE IS BLISS and this industry is horrible and now i cant even handle seeing something like opal towers now i just feel sorry for the people it affects and unfortunately its mentally affected me .
Please help spread awareness of silicosis. My aniexty has been so hard to control because of being taken advantage of hopefully someone can create a cure for this horrible disease I worry everyday that I will die from going to work and working hard my employer never informed us of the dangers and never provided any protectionI wish osha or someone would have told me the dangers of drilling into concrete i had no idea my employer never gave me any kind of protection and never told me of the dangers we were carpenters and had to attach wood to concrete or drill tie down holes blow out the holes with air and epoxy the all threaded rods in never realized its fatal with no hope no cure no treatments.my life has been turned upside down and no one would even investigate the company they denied it and osha said they needed a 3 day notice prior to drilling which the contractors know and know there untouchable. My life is ruined at 35
The rescuers in USA on 911 got respiratory problems because they didn’t wear respirators to protect against the dust from the building materials. The rescue efforts in Indonesia has the same problem. Rescuers are not protecting themselves against the dust.
Hi, CFMEUVIC ! I'm trying to find up to date AUSTRALIAN info, if any, on environmental exposure to nanoparticles in the environment originating from quarries where blasting, extraction, crushing, vehicle transfer, transport, wind movement from stockpiles etc etc occurs.
It has been confirmed that NO correct (or even no) dust, wind etc monitoring is being done at the quarry site or the site where processing has occurred for nearly 30yrs! The quarry is currently expanding & increasing production of a source of silica of (officially measured) 98% purity.
There are small & larger rural properties around both sites mentioned .. some as close as 700metres & others at 1-2 klms away and everywhere in-between. The town itself is less than approx. 7klms in a straight line from the quarry & processing sites. ALL the rural area properties depend on tank &/or dam water for all water sources, both household & stock uses. The town has a large dam for town water supply.
Transport of large quantities of blasted materials is trucked to the current processing site a few klms away, right up to the edge of town areas.
I am living 1klm from the quarry site & have witnessed large clouds of dust emanating from the source after blasting. I've even taken photos where my camera picked up a yellow toned light refraction in the white dust cloud from a blast .. I was 750ft from the source. There are many predominant winds in the area .. we are located in a northern area of the Great Dividing Ranges. Both 'westerlies' & easterlies' can be quite fierce .. and last for days.
There seems to be little information 'out there' that residents close by or in town are able to acquire .. are we likely to develop health issues? Is our water being contaminated from our roofs? Will we be ingesting this dust from our water & home grown produce? Are our rural roads (some have been graded with this product) likely to produce nanoparticles with traffic use?
Quite a few people have tried to get the correct info from various sources .. our Council, local Govt. representatives, the company involved etc & some concerned people have even had various tests on several samples from both sites done at their own expense .. which confirmed the purity level of the Silica at 98%.
The EPA has found what many people saw in a recent DA .. incorrect & conflicting or even absent statistics .. while our local Representatives are absenting themselves from any discussion with concerned residents, where do go from here? It seems like a lot of regulations have been ignored &/or broken here for years! If anyone could help, we would be eternally grateful .. if we had an eternity, but I doubt we have .. send me links etc ..
I see coworkers expose them selves to coal dust and flyash and won't wear a respirator even though it is free. People just love to hurt themselves and supervisors enjoy not having to bother with them.
Good shit that silica isn’t it