when taking my asbestos supervisor class I remember Dave at TEI telling me that if you smoke and abate asbestos you are 50% more likely to get lung cancer then the average joe. Meso is extremely rare and very fatal. Only thing you can do to ensure that you "lower" your risk to asbestos diseases and asbestos dust, etc... Is to follow all the safety guidelines and make sure all your employees do. I think everyone alive today has been exposed to asbestos at some point in their lives.

I know a lawyer who handles these types of cases, if anyone is interested in pursuing, send a private message and I can put you in touch with people who can help. A meso case can be worth about $5 million according to him. It's a terrible affliction, no doubt, and very sorry for anyone who has that kind of exposure, or any asbestos exposure for that matter.

I've worked around it daily for 30 years. Many of those years with no respirator. No problems so far. Plus I smoke two packs a day.

Some of the next big nasty lawsuits are going to come from Fiber Reinforced Concrete. They use it a lot in precast especially architectural precast panelsand in bridge beams. When you are around that stuff when it is being crushed or when a building is imploded the dust is really nasty. The original fibers were asbestos and as the technology progressed they replaced it with fiberglass and in some cases metal.

You get a big cloud of that mixed with respirable silica and watch out.

you can get asbestos exposure standing on a street corner, from brake dust ! I am around it and if you know you are in a area with friable asbestos then protect your self with a full face resparator.it is in products still today,... they cant be produce here in the U.S, that I know of ,but most drywall compounds that come out of canada and other countries contain 2 % to 5% asbestos.I tore down a building last week that was built in 2003, all the drywall and floor mastic had asbestos! so go figure!