History Of Asbestos

History of Asbestos

Although the commercial use of asbestos began in the late nineteenth century, the fact is that previously were known publicly the risks associated with such material. In late 1800, the inspector general of the factories of the United Kingdom reported to Parliament on the possible harmful effects of asbestos dust could have on workers in the factories. In 1906 a committee of the British Parliament confirmed the first death in the factories of Britain, recommended improvements in ventilation and safety measures.

Yet it was not until 1918 when an insurance company in the United States published a study showing a high rate of premature mortality of workers in the industry where asbestos was used, which subsequently resulted in the rejection of the insurance policies of these workers given the detriment of their health. It is in 1926 when the Society of Industrial Accidents Massacusetts successfully admitted to an affected first claim that compensated without going to trial.

It's first medical statistics was done on workers exposed to asbestos was published in 1930 and revealed that one in four workers suffered asbestos, also revealing that it was a long latency disease and asbestos dust could be controlled simply by improving ventilation and using respirators.

All these findings led to our country in the publication of the first regulations governing the work with asbestos exposure and its adverse effects (31.01.1940 Ministerial Order approving the Regulation of Health and Safety at Work and in establishing working conditions and environments pulvígeno Ministerial Order of 03/07/1941 for the prevention and compensation of pneumoconiosis, silicosis, which is mentioned as a variety of neumoconioss asbestosis).

In 1942 the head of the environmental cancer section of the National Cancer Institute of the United States, Dr . Heuper, suggested that asbestos increases the risk of developing cancer in people who were at the production lines and installation of products containing this material.

The following year confirmed the first case of mesothelioma related to asbestos exposure. Nevertheless, the use of asbestos increased dramatically during the Second World War and many people who worked on the boats showed signs of asbestosis and mesothelioma.

In 1949 he published two hundred references about asbestos-caused diseases, including Dr. Heuper explicit warning that asbestos was carcinogenic material for the general public. In 1949 the British encyclopedia acknowledge this. A major epidemiological study conducted in 1955 concluded that workers exposed to AND ENVIRONMENT had a tenfold increased risk of developing lung cancer than any other person.

The resulting 1960 epidemiological study confirmed that exposure to asbestos caused mesothelioma, suggesting that those living with asbestos workers also had mesothelioma risk because they had that secondary exposure to asbestos dust.

In mid-1960 an investigation carried out in the U.S. Mt Sinai Hospital, published a report on the dangers of asbestos in occupational safety. Medical literature and industrial asbestos continued to describe as an occupational and environmental hazard. Despite this common knowledge asbestos was commonly used as a building material during the 80s.

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