As my weekly blogs focus on history, don’t take all of the documents which I cite or use as being current. Rather, please see them as the historical learning experience that they are meant to be. Today, we take a look at the EPA suggested training during the 1990s as embodied in its EPA Model…
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This one is special. I often see questions about whether a certain product discovered at an industrial or commercial site might be asbestos. If you run across this issue in your job, then I have a “go to” resource for you to use as a starting point. No pictures, unfortunately (although the Owens Corning Picture…
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For those of you interested in the developmental history for asbestos substitutes, I have chosen to discuss this week the EPA Model Asbestos Worker & Contractor/Supervisory Training Manual, Student’s Manual provided for abatement training in the mid-1990s. To be clear, I have a number of other publications discussing the status of inventing substitutes and the…
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Last week, we discussed the yearly publications on asbestos by the USGS side of the United States Government. In this Blog, we will go instead to the Environmental Protection Agency to discuss the geology history side of asbestos, with a focus on where it is naturally located and the risk of inhaling those asbestos fibers.…
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