WR Grace Documentary Analysis

Hazardous materials can be silent killers, almost every household or workplace contains various harmful substances therefore it is important to have the basic knowledge of these contaminants, where to find them, and what to do if exposed. Asbestos is a natural occurring mineral that is used in a number of different materials. Asbestos is not a concern if left undisturbed; however renovation, reconstruction or demolition can disturb these materials and release asbestos fibers into the air. Asbestos fibers can be inhaled and become trapped in lung tissue which increases the risk for several serious diseases. Asbestos is a well recognized health hazard and is highly regulated.

In 2009, the Affordable Care Act passed a provision that expanded Medicare coverage to include certain individuals with diseases caused by environmental health hazards (EHH). While there are many potential diseases caused by environmental health hazards, the legislation intended to cover people who developed asbestos related disease (ARD) following exposure in a vermiculite mine in Libby, Montana.1 The provision was included in the ACA with the help of Senator Baucus of Montana, who had a role in writing the health care law.2 The goal was to increase benefits for this new category of Medicare-eligible individuals. The three components of the legislation were the expansion of Medicare benefits, the development of a pilot program, and the initiation of grants to establish screening programs for the early detection of diseases caused by environmental health hazards.1

Back in the day, humans would only live to be about 50 years old and usually even younger than that. Now, it is usually somewhere between 7-80 years old. In Libby, however, they are slowly moving down the scale, with people of all ages dying from asbestos problems that still have not been fixed. People are dying at very young ages, some even very young like under the age of eighteen. Just about everyone in Libby has lost at least one member of their family due to this issue, and hundreds are buried every year from only asbestos related deaths. This is a huge problem. On a large scale, it may not seem so bad because it is only in one town for the most part. However, in a hundred years? It can be nationwide if not fixed and the human life in America will be in true danger. As of now, the problem can be solved very easily, but if the government keeps waiting to take any action on it, the problem will spread and spread until it is so large that nothing can be done and the whole entire nation is in danger of dying at a young

The Movie taught us a lot. I learned really what was causing all the people in Libby to Get sick. asbestos refers to a set of six naturally occurring fibrous minerals. Asbestos has six primary sub-classifications: chrysotile, crocidolite, amosite, anthophyllite, tremolite, and actinolite. Among these, chrysotile and amosite asbestos are the most common.Although asbestos fibers are microscopic in nature, they are extremely durable and resistant to fire and most chemical reactions and breakdowns. These properties of asbestos were the reasons that supported its use for many years in a number of different commercial and industrial capacities. The strength of asbestos, combined with its resistance to heat, allowed it to become the material of choice in a variety of products, including, but not limited to, roofing shingles, floor tiles, ceiling materials, cement compounds, textile products, and automotive parts. Asbestos is now strictly regulated as exposure to this toxic mineral can now be directly and scientifically linked to a number of lung and respiratory health conditions.Its really a very bad thing. It wasn't only around back in that time period of the Libby tradgedy. It is still around to this day and we have no way of controlling it. In my old high school we had it in every room and the teacher use to kid around about it but now i really know how serious it is. It is honestly nothing to joke about and there should be laws patient play for schools making them get checked and passed to be function atlas every 5 years to keep the kids safe and keep them healthy.

In June 2015 Elizabeth Ann was affected with pneumonia and a cat scan confirmed that she had been contaminated with asbestos in her lungs. Her neighbor at the time while she resided at 3805 Paprika Way, in the City of Oceanside California decided to take down the ceiling referred to as popcorn ceiling from his residence. As it is known, such popcorn ceiling contains asbestos and must be removed professionally. When the owner took down the popcorn ceiling, he placed the debris between both his property and Elizabeth Ann’s rental property. It was the airborne particles that entered through her open window that infected her respiratory system.

You have locked all the windows, made sure all the doors are locked and secure and set the security alarm before retiring to bed. You even had security lights added at the corners and entrances of your home. Despite all your efforts to protect your family, there is a killer in your home, lurking, waiting, for the right moment to strike. It is not a person, but a thing, and it is called asbestos. Asbestos is a mineral found and mined out of the earth and is naturally fire and heat resistant. Therefore, it was used in many building materials such as insulation for building and electrical, mixed with cement, and used in fabric or mats. The prolonged inhalation of asbestos fibers can cause lung cancer, mesothelioma, and asbestosis. According

In the video documentary on Libby, Montana, there was a lot of family oriented relationships seen throughout the film. This close knit community was based around the family. We learn a lot about its effects on everyone in the town and associated with the people of the town. It has a major effect on the families in Libby. The video is from November of 2002, and almost every man in Libby worked as either a logger or on the asbestos site. They manufactured the asbestos for usage for insulation, roofing, and soil. The asbestos was found everywhere. The men who worked on these sites didn’t know the effects of the asbestos on not only them, but also

It is thought that exposure to this dust through the lungs and skin has contributed to the asthma, gastrointestinal problems, and possibly the increased cancer risk experienced by rescue workers, especially those who were on the site immediately after the attack. Rescue workers continue to struggle with respiratory illness, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and many of them may be at increased risk for developing a number of cancers. The planes were fueled with 24,000 gallons of fuel that spread to 100,000 and 230,000 gallons in diesel oil in the buildings feeling them up with toxic pile of ash. Many of these toxins that the 9/11 first hand responders were exposed to were asbestos which refer to a set of six naturally occurring fibrous minerals that have six primary sub classification chrysotile, crocidolite, amanita, anthophylite, tremollile and achitone. The minerals that the first responders were exposed to could cause mesothelioma cancer. Those from the cite have a 32 percent more likely to have numerous of cancers. 14 years after the 9/11 70,000 patients enrolled in the W.I.C and 21,000 of them are getting treatment and many health programs were created in

“Asbestos can be found in many homes, schools, and workplaces, and if it is not handled properly it poses a serious health risk,” Healey said. “Too often, children, families, and workers are exposed to airborne asbestos fibers due to shoddy or unlicensed work, and many aren’t aware of the serious

List three reasons the filmmakers present in support of their position. One reason is the negative effects that the dust and boulders, caused by the explosions, have on the community’s lives. The people living in the area have higher chances of getting cancer at a younger age. Another reason is that the safety of the workers isn’t very up to par. There has been multiple cave-ins and deaths of workers that could have been avoided if Massey

My one best question about asbestos is, who does one go to about reporting an asbestos violation? I would direct this question towards a human resources department or a union representative. I think Zonolite Company and W.R. Grace and Company are both at blame for the asbestos contamination, illnesses and fatalities at Libby. Both had employees who developed illnesses and fatalities from the job. I would say that W.R. Grace and Company would be more at fault because even though they claimed they were unaware of the hazards of the job, that wasn’t the truth. They knew of the dangers of the exposure and never said anything to their employees. If they did so, then they could have avoided this tragedy.

Exposure to a constant and high level of asbestos can often times lead to cancer. Mesothelioma and lunch cancer are to of the most common asbestos cancers reported today. Gastrointestinal cancer and colorectal cancer have also been highly reported due to asbestos exposure. Asbestos is a highly hazardous chemical that was commonly used in homes and buildings starting in the 1930's. Asbestos was used as insulation in walls as well as the backing for flooring. What makes this chemical so harmful to people is that when dry, the small shards of asbestos break off and become airborne which then creates the chance of inhaling the chemical. If asbestos is inhaled on a consistent basis, the shards attach onto the lunch tissue and in the breathing airway.

Numerous authors believe that the risks associated with asbestos exposure were known more than 2000 years ago when Greek Geographer Strabo pointed out that slaves who wove asbestos into clothes developed a ‘sickness of the lung’ and that a similar observation was also made on asbestos miners, by Pliny the Elder, a Roman naturalist.3,9,120 However, Browne et al describes Strabo’s and Pliny’s stories to be inaccurate due to mistranslation. He points out that Strabo was referring to arsenic disulphide, and that Elder Pliny was referring to sulphide of mercury, and not asbestos.121 Regardless of the accuracy of these anecdotes, there is a myriad of evidence of early knowledge of asbestos’s health danger.

Asbestos, historically referred to as the “magic mineral”, has recently been renamed the world’s largest occupational killer. Despite the wealth of information concerning its harmful effects, there continues to be a nationwide epidemic of asbestos-related diseases. This raises concern in the eyes of many public health advocates who are fighting for the gap closure between the knowledge base of the harmful effects due to asbestos and intervention implementation.

Them movies are inspiring and major real life problems that the government does not pay attention to, for instance, many business uses a lot of energy that is polluting the atmosphere. Companies are a major cause of air pollution, Factories releases lots toxic chemicals that is polluting rapidly, which includes carbon-based solvents, respirable particles, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. Also release toxic odors in the atmosphere is dangerous cause of the carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide is harm to human lungs Products that contain a state of breakdown may cause the release of asbestos fibers into the air. This can be hazardous to the environment and can cause human illness such as lung disease. These toxic chemicals can both damage public health and harm the environments by contributing to worldwide crisis such as climate change, the greenhouse effect, ozone hole and increasing desertification. Construction product containing asbestos waste; the responsibility to treat friable asbestos installed for current insulation in agreement with the “2011 Prevention of Hazards from Asbestos and Harmful Dust Law.” This contains reporting asbestos discoveries, end of use, removal and disposal, prohibition of use of asbestos cement in a decaying structure, prohibition of any activity that will cause disintegration of asbestos and it is spreading into the air, and the responsibility to service a licensed workers to eliminate asbestos cement.