1950's fusebox.

[SPARTYKUS]

We used to eat the flash pads For breakfast now we can't even open a board containing asbestos,If were doing an EICR we have to Give it a code 1 and if they want the board changing we get a specialist asbestos company to remove it

Man o man thats crazy huh.

me & mate did a house 7 year ago- lean to was corragated asbestos. We were told it needed removing. Builder ssid bury it at bottom of garden but no we bagged it up, loaded into my mondeo, and chucked it into the councils asbestos skip in our 1/2 hour slot.

All free , and no H&SE

 

[Flanders]

According to the posters 6 electrician die every week from asbestos, had one of those tool box talks on it

 

[Engineer54]

According to the posters 6 electrician die every week from asbestos, had one of those tool box talks on it

Probably site installation electricians, that were working around laggers all day long, in the day's of abundant site Asbestos!! Certainly not from pulling rewirable fuses!! ...lol!! Misinformation being applied in the wrong context as usual...

 

[Dizzy_Maskell]

Only a complete idiot would deliberately expose themselves to asbestos, People used to drive cars without seatbelts does that mean these people would not use their seat belt.
Take a look at this: http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/guidance/a33.pdf
There are others

 

[Paultrim123321]

Are you calling me a liar?

 

[Paultrim123321]

Sorry, I am referring to Engineer54.

 

[Flanders]

Thats why we just shut the door and walk away

 

[Stuuk1]

Have recovered plenty of these from many telephone exchanges and they are usually full of asbestos inserts.