Leading medic calls for urgent action to protect those who cut the material after rise in cases of the incurable disease

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  • ryannathans@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Stop breathing the dust while cutting it ya dummies, wear PPE, wet the surface down.

    Same risk exists for sandstone and other building materials. WEAR A MASK

    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 months ago

      It might be more than that but I am willing to bet that the conditions that they work in are controlled by people who count every shilling. The pressure to keep the job is probably such that the workers are caught in a situation that needs the government to step in… But that’s communism!

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      2 months ago

      Aus put this rule in place because work places were not complying with the safety side.