"HeyBub" wrote in message
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You can't make this **** up.

"[UK] Carpenters and woodworkers have been told not to use brooms to sweep
up sawdust because they are considered dangerous under 'ridiculous' new
health and safety guidelines. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) claims
that sweeping up wood chippings in dusty workplaces can provoke asthma
attacks and long term exposure lead to nose cancer."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2307275/'Ridiculous'-health-and-safety-rules-tell-carpenters-to-ban-the-broom.html

I know I developed asthma after working with wood for several years. There
maybe something to this.