Government says it did what it could on dockyard asbestos

robert hill

Jan 28th, 18:02

james tyrell,you need to get facts right,a P3 filter is required to combat asbestos fibres.i worked at the dry docks removing asbestos in 1999 & early 2000, for a british company,if you knew what went on you would find it very disturbing,i also worked in malta last year for a maltese company ,and i can assure you that the maltese methods of removing asbestos are frightening,as for air monitoring

Lawrence Attard

Jan 28th, 17:21

These 20 workers are slowly dying a horrible death and cannot do anything about it. Countless others have died the same way.

Lawrence Attard

Jan 28th, 17:19

Plain dust mask were provided at that time, safety procedure were very rudimentary and management & the safety dept had practically no knowledge at the harm asbestos could cause. If workers through their union representatives asked for these safeguards they were branded as trouble makers. At a time you had to pay for a safety shoe at Malta Drydocks. Safety what safety? safety my foot!

James Tyrrell

Jan 28th, 14:02

It says here that masks were provided to the employees. If these were normal dust masks then they might as well have given them nothing. To work safely with asbestos requires a half-face filter respirator fitted with a class P1 or P2 filter cartridge, or a class P1 or P2 disposable respirator appropriate for asbestos.

Lawrence Fenech

Jan 28th, 13:28

Yes like scraping all the Dockyard workers with a written guarantee signed by you in their hands and now all at home.

Tony Borg Borg

Jan 28th, 13:08

G. camilleri missek ghedt il-gvernijiet kollha.

Tony Borg Borg

Jan 28th, 13:08

G. camilleri missek ghedt il-gvernijiet kollha.

David Smith

Jan 28th, 13:03

Aren't the pseudo expert bloggers aware of the fact that the above report is only an excerpt from a reply presented during court proceedings? That the full reply could possibly contain much more information than is being presented here?

George Camilleri

Jan 28th, 12:47

Then it's safe to say, in the end, that government did not deliver

John Dee

Jan 28th, 10:36

There are standard procedures which are accepted internationally for the handling of asbestos which result in complete isolation from contact with the lethal fibres. Providing "masks" and ventilation does not sound to be a professional approach to ensure operators' safety.
What standards of ongoing monitoring and air sampling were in place, for instance?

Peter Murray

Jan 28th, 10:34

This is aways the bog-standard phrase used by any entity whenever things go wrong as in we took all "the necessary ,measures" or else ,when pledging to make things right, we will do "all it takes " without ever qualifying or elaborating on what these necessary measures or all it takes actually entails?