Arthur BesseA to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoThe U.S. bans most common form of asbestos, after decades of pushback from industrywww.npr.orgexternal-linkmessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1282arrow-down13cross-posted to: usagoodnews
arrow-up1279arrow-down1external-linkThe U.S. bans most common form of asbestos, after decades of pushback from industrywww.npr.orgArthur BesseA to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square42fedilinkcross-posted to: usagoodnews
minus-squarezaphod@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·8 months agoBut wouldn’t mining and processing inevitably cause airborne particulate?
minus-squareschmidtster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·8 months agoProper environmental controls and PPE protects you from any risk.
minus-squareArthur BesseOPAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·8 months ago protects you from any i think “mitigates the” would be more accurate here
minus-squareschmidtster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·edit-28 months agoWeird that they call it personal PROTECTION equipment instead of mitigation equipment…… Proper and right fitting ppe is 100% safe, so no, mitigation isn’t even a better word anyways.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·8 months agoYeah because it’s not like American mining corporations are notorious for failing to adhere to safety regulations, not providing adequate PPE and hardly ever being inspected…oh wait! That’s EXACTLY what they are!
But wouldn’t mining and processing inevitably cause airborne particulate?
Proper environmental controls and PPE protects you from any risk.
i think “mitigates the” would be more accurate here
Weird that they call it personal PROTECTION equipment instead of mitigation equipment……
Proper and right fitting ppe is 100% safe, so no, mitigation isn’t even a better word anyways.
Yeah because it’s not like American mining corporations are notorious for failing to adhere to safety regulations, not providing adequate PPE and hardly ever being inspected…oh wait! That’s EXACTLY what they are!