Historically, the greatest contributions to airborne asbestos concentrations during brake repair work were likely due to specific, short-duration, dust-generating activities. In this paper, the ...

The standard, ASTM D 7390, Guide for Evaluating Asbestos in Dust on Surfaces by Comparison Between Two Environments, can assist building owners as they consider whether one area of a building has more ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Over the next two weeks, lead, asbestos and silica sample testing will be conducted at North Park Montessori School, closed in February for potential asbestos exposure during a ...

Occupational asbestos exposure impacts more than a million Americans each year.1 Once hailed a “wonder material,” asbestos served a central role in American commercial product manufacturing and ...

The city will soon begin testing soil and dust at Tustin residents’ homes for any asbestos or lead emitted from the burnt north hangar at the Marine Corps Air Station, after previously focusing on ...

SELLERSVILLE, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Federal and state lawmakers say a quarry where asbestos was found in Upper Bucks County must be shut down for good. Local officials want all work at Rockhill ...

(Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson said on Friday it is recalling around 33,000 bottles of baby powder in the United States after U.S. health regulators found trace amounts of asbestos in samples taken ...

In short: A private auditor warned weeks before the recent asbestos crisis that mulch testing at a site near Rozelle Parklands did not meet its guidelines. The mulch came from a site operated by waste ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Two Philadelphia schools will be closed on reports of asbestos found. Two buildings, Mitchell Elementary School in Southwest Philadelphia and Frankford High School are both ...

The School District of Philadelphia is closing two more schools after asbestos was discovered this week. Both Frankford High School and Mitchell Elementary will be closed starting next week, the ...