What is Asbestos?

Asbestos was banned in Australia in 2003 due to health concerns but one third of all homes still contain asbestos products.

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00:56 So a one-off exposure, say, walking past one

01:01 of these contaminated sites or otherwise,

01:04 whilst not desirable, the risk is so low it's unmeasurable,

01:09 to the point that really we couldn't,

01:13 with any degree of confidence, say

01:15 that this is likely to have any impact on health in the future.

01:18 And to put that in context, we can

01:20 start to sort of measure risk in people

01:23 who have worked with asbestos full-time for months

01:26 and years, and then you can start to see the effect from it.

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