Cuprager wrote in message ...
Holly, in France wrote:

Cuprager wrote in message


DONT BREAK THE CORNER OFF TO HAVE A
LOOK !!! Utter stupidity.


How do you think analysts take samples?

They take them by vacuum sealing around the sample area,
and use a suction system...

Serious question this. How exactly do they get a sample by suction? I
imagine they must use some other tool within their sealed area?

my workplace has just been
sampled, more than 9000 samples taken like this.

Fair enough, if that is the case, times and methods have changed.

Do you think that someone who works in the
asbestos industry would be breaking apart material that
they do not know to 'see' if there is asbestos there?

That is exactly how it was done up until a few years ago. Analysts wore
suits and masks of course, but an air test taken in an area where one
small piece of amosite board were sampled would be very unlikely to find
any significant levels of fibres in the air. I'm not suggesting people
should go around doing it all the time, but taking one sample, once,
carefully, is acceptable IMO.

Have you ever heard of corporate
liability?

Of course, see my recent reply to Peter Parry in another thread.

Would you ask an employee to identify it like this????

With a suit and mask, possibly, depending on current legislation and
guidelines.


If it was asb then it is not
identifiable by eye...


It can be perfectly visible by eye. Positive identification requires
a
microscope.


the fibres are 100x 'thinner' than a human hair.


Have you ever seen any? They vary. The larger 'fibres' are smaller
fibres clumped together.

These comments frighten me.

I am astounded by yours too. I now see exactly what PP means in some of
his posts.

I hope for the sake of you and those around you
that havent tried out your theory too many times!

Which bit of it exactly? Sampling I have always done by carefully
breaking or cutting pieces off, with suit and mask etc, as did hundreds
of people when that was the recognised way to do it. Same for the
analysis, visual inspection in a 'fume' cupboard, followed by
microscopic analysis.
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Holly, in France.
Holiday home in the Dordogne,
website: http://la-plaine.chez.tiscali.fr