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Trades call for asbestos registry Vancouver Island Building and Construction Trades Council makes national appeal Carlie Connolly
asbestos. It asks that the registry be made available online to all workers and companies who potentially deal Imagine your house or your work- or have dealt with asbestos. It will place and the air inside affecting you allow them to become aware of its or your loved ones’ health. Every- presence in the building they are curthing you have built in your life can rently in or will be in, outlining where go down the drain in what David Rog- the asbestos is (in drywall, floor tiles, ers says is the largest killer in work- ceiling tiles, etc.). “It will provide an ability for any place accidents in British Columbia construction worker that is going to since 2000. work in a building to This killer is known be able to go online, as asbestos. Rog“Having every bring up the building ers, president of that they are going to BCHAZMAT of North workplace with an in and see where Saanich, a company asbestos inventory and work asbestos is contained that tests for the matein the building,” said rial, said that every five asbestos inspection days, one person dies report done would go Venoit. He is also calling on from asbestos expothe federal and provinsure and it’s still very a long way to protect cial governments that prevalent in homes firefighters ...” utilize public marine and workplaces today. – David Rogers transportation, includPhil Venoit, presiing the Royal Canadian dent of Vancouver Navy, Coast Guard and Island Building and Construction Trades Council, has others to develop a National Vessel been trying to make a difference in Registry of all maritime vessels that the lives of those working with asbes- use products and equipment containing asbestos. The registry would then tos day in and day out. On July 30 he sent a letter to Prime be made available for all of the CanaMinister Stephen Harper, calling on dian shipyard workers, prior to agreefederal, provincial and municipal ing to work with products that could potentially threaten their life. Carlie Connolly/News staff governments to create a National President of Vancouver Island Building Trades, Phil Venoit, stands in front of Belmont Building Registry of all public buildPlease see: ings that utilize products containing Secondary School, a site he says was tested for asbestos. Working with asbestos, page 2 News staff
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