Asbestos Removal Cost In Australia 2024: What to Expect and Should You Replace Your Asbestos Roof? During the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, many homes in Australia used asbestos for their roofs. Typically, roofs need replacement every 20-30 years, but with asbestos, they can last for 50 years or even longer. Asbestos is a type of […]
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Risks to Your Health from Wood Dust hazards – And How to Avoid Them
Wood dust hazards is a serious respiratory irritant and can even cause cancer in high concentrations. Woodworkers, carpenters, cabinet makers, and many other woodworking professionals are at risk of developing asthma, chronic bronchitis, or hypersensitivity pneumonitis from constant exposure to wood dust. Wood dust may not seem like a dangerous substance, but once it gets […]
How To Clean-up after the Western Sydney Flood?
How To Clean-up after the Western Sydney Flood? Australia is battered by its worst flood of the last 60 years! With more than 2 million lives impacted with this flood, it has become a great concern as we see submerged intersections, marooned livestock and water as far as eyes can see! While many have been […]
What rock drillers can do to protect their lungs from silica dust?
What can rock drillers do to protect their lungs from silica dust? When workers are working on a rock cutting/drilling site, many such activities can cause exposure to hazardous crystalline Silica Dust and long-term exposure can cause fatal lung diseases such as acute lung infection and Silicosis. Below are the activities where workers are at […]
How to select a Vacuum Cleaner for Silica Dust?
How to select a Vacuum Cleaner for Silica Dust? With the increasing instances of Silicosis and it being a notifiable disease in many developed nations, the governing bodies are updating the silica dust exposure standards and their disposal norms along with multiple fines and penalties to keep the dust exposure in check. With constantly updating […]
Industrial Vacuum Rentals: Budget-Friendly Options with High ROI
Industrial Vacuum Rentals: Budget-Friendly Options with High ROI Industrial cleaning activities and cleaning equipments are a major part of any production cycle, corporate budget as well as employee productivity levels. The highly-efficient cleaning equipment such as industrial vacuum cleaners saves a lot of time and helps comply with the cleaning norms and dust exposure standards […]
How To Reduced Dust Containing Crystalline Silica in Construction Work
How To Reduced Dust Containing Crystalline Silica in Construction Work Crystalline Silica has been a major concern across the globe and workers from Construction Industry are the ones that are at maximum risk due to various activities that they carry out. When workers carry out construction and demolition tasks with concrete, bricks, mortar, tiles, stone or […]
A Guide to Developing a Silica Dust Control Plan
How to Create a Safe Silica Dust Control Plan? Silica is a mineral that is present in many things such as sand, concrete, stone, limestone, and other such common things and usually, it is of no harm. But, when there are certain activities performed such as cutting, grinding, explosions, and other such activities that can […]
Construction Vacuuming Solutions for Large Quantities of Concrete Slurry
Vacuuming Solutions for Large Quantities of Concrete Slurry Handling, cleaning and disposing of concrete slurry is a challenging task especially if you have to deal with it in large quantities. You cannot just simply collect and dump slurry into drains as it has a high pH level and can block and corrode pipelines and is […]
How to Properly Handle Concrete Slurry?
How to Properly Handle Concrete Slurry? With the worldwide recognition of the effects of Silica Dust and increasing incidents of Silicosis, disposal and workspace norms of all the materials that can spread silica dust have become a stringent regime. Not only are there specific exposure standards introduced that industries have to manage, but there are […]
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