Australia to Ban Engineered Stone

Re:Australia to Ban Engineered Stone by repiret on Thursday December 14, 2023 @02:01AM (#38638597)

It’s also that relatively few people are affected. That’s approximately one in 100,000 people, twice as many people in the United States were murdered in 2015. It is really easy to know nobody who died from asbestos.

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Re:Australia to Ban Engineered Stone by lostlogin on Thursday December 14, 2023 @02:07AM (#38638616)

Yeah, but I don’t claim murder risk is overblown and run around badlands like I’m invincible.

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Re:Australia to Ban Engineered Stone by kortilla on Thursday December 14, 2023 @04:43AM (#38639555)

Murder risk is negligible though. Especially if you aren’t directly involved in crime.

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Re:Australia to Ban Engineered Stone by Brian_K_White on Thursday December 14, 2023 @05:54AM (#38640002)

Murder risk is negligible because we do things about it.

My house has never burned down, therefor firemen, smoke alarms, and extinguishers are a scam. Got it.

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Re:Australia to Ban Engineered Stone by kortilla on Thursday December 14, 2023 @08:04AM (#38640879)

No, murder risk is negligible not because you avoid going out, but because of law.

You conflated the two.

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Re:Australia to Ban Engineered Stone by lostlogin on Thursday December 14, 2023 @09:41AM (#38641817)

Is it because of law?

Making harsher laws doesn’t seem to reduce the murder rate. Having a death penalty doesn’t seem to stop the murders.

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Re:Australia to Ban Engineered Stone by kortilla on Friday December 15, 2023 @10:38PM (#38661492)

What are you talking about? Where is murder legal so you can compare the rates?

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Re:Australia to Ban Engineered Stone by Brian_K_White on Thursday December 14, 2023 @07:22PM (#38649430)

I did? Where did I say anything about not going out?

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Re:Australia to Ban Engineered Stone by Hikikomori on Thursday December 14, 2023 @06:39AM (#38640287)

Is the risk of asbestos exposure when you work in construction as low as someone that doesn't?

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Re:Australia to Ban Engineered Stone by kristofferR on Thursday December 14, 2023 @06:47AM (#38640347)

Depends on your job - new construction shouldn't have anything to do with asbestos at all, but if you work on/demolish old buildings you might.

The only reason asbestos is becoming less and less deadly is that we banned it decades ago.

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Re:Australia to Ban Engineered Stone by Hikikomori on Thursday December 14, 2023 @11:42AM (#38643352)

Why are averages relevant when these workers are not getting an average exposure to these materials?

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