Where Can You Find Asbestos In Your Home?
Asbestos can lurk in your home in many places you may not think of as being a place where you would find it. As asbestos has serious links to many diseases including lung cancer and asbestosis, it is important to learn where to look. Read on to learn of six unexpected places you may find […]
How to Tell The Difference Between Cellulose and Asbestos Insulation
With asbestos still being used as a very commonly used fire retardant and a very popular insulator right until the end of the 1980’s. It was very versatile, affordable and it could be used in tiles and blow it with another material, vermiculite. Differences Between Asbestos And Cellulose Insulation Before we review the differences between […]
Asbestos Certification
Asbestos is often found in older buildings and represents a serious hazard to health for those who encounter it. At one time because of its low cost and high resistance factors, it was a common material used in many kinds of buildings from the 1940s until 1990. Boiler and pipe insulation may also contain asbestos […]
Asbestos Floor Tiles
Until the 1980s, asbestos was regularly used in construction as it was durable and resilient. However, in that decade it was banned when there were discovered to be serious health risks. But a ban did not mean its complete removal from homes. Even today many homeowners sit, wor kand live around hazardous asbestos-containing materials that […]
Identifying Dangerous Asbestos Insulation
In today’s world, most homeowners are familiar with the dangers associated with inhaling and disturbing asbestos fibers. Older homes often feature asbestos in diverse places such as floor tiles, furnaces, and hot water pipe insulation. People are advised not to disturb it and leave it in place or if it has to be moved or […]
Intro to Operation and Maintenance
Many people today have a false perception of the hazards of asbestos containing materials which are installed in buildings in the United States. Asbestos in most building materials is an additive in a material at a fairly low percentage (usually in the range of 1% – 10%). Asbestos is not a health hazard to humans […]
Thoughts on the U.S EPA “2019 FINAL RULE” for Asbestos
The Asbestos Institute is pleased to post this EPA summary of the “2019 Final Rule” for asbestos, commonly referred to as the Significant New Use Rule (SNUR). This rule has been needed for the last 30 years in the US, to give final closure to legal asbestos use. Since the 1989 EPA bans on some […]
EPA Actions to Protect the Public from Exposure to Asbestos
One of EPA’s priorities is to protect the public from the adverse health effects of asbestos. Actions to protect the public from exposure to asbestos under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) include the following three pieces.
What is Asbestos?
Commonly known as a dangerous substance, most individuals don’t realize that asbestos is found in nature. Ask most individuals on the street today to describe asbestos or to provide insight into its characteristics, properties, or even what it simply looks like, and they’ll likely deliver a blank stare. Asbestos is a substance that is known […]
