{"id":2811,"date":"2015-02-01T02:50:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T07:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightoncanada.ca\/?p=2811"},"modified":"2015-02-01T02:50:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T07:50:18","slug":"the-top-cause-of-worker-death-in-denmark-asbestos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/?p=2811","title":{"rendered":"The top cause of worker death in Denmark: asbestos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/central.bcwebinc.com\/~rightcan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Denmark-Why-is-asbestos-still-a-health-problem-PPT.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Why Is Asbestos Still a Health Problem?\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Rolf Petersen, Copenhagen Asbestos Symposium, December 12, 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong><em>&#8220;Despite the ban in 1986 on the use of asbestos, asbestos is still the work factor that causes most deaths in Denmark.&#8221; <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>&#8220;The number of deaths caused by asbestos is 4\u20105 times higher than the number who die in accidents in the work place.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The Copenhagen Asbestos Symposium noted the following factors as having caused the asbestos tragedy in Denmark and elsewhere: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">lobbying by the asbestos industry for continued use of asbestos<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">failure of government regulatory authorities to take action<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">the role of scientists funded by the asbestos industry, who claimed that asbestos could be safely used.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Is Asbestos Still a Health Problem?\u00a0 Rolf Petersen, Copenhagen Asbestos Symposium, December 12, 2014. &#8220;Despite the ban in 1986 on the use of asbestos, asbestos is still the work factor that causes most deaths in Denmark.&#8221; &#8220;The number of deaths caused by asbestos is 4\u20105 times higher than the number who die in accidents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[258,147,257],"class_list":["post-2811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asbestos","tag-asbestos-deaths","tag-asbestos-lobby","tag-denmark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2811"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2828,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions\/2828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}