Posted on October 6, 2014
Part One: Preventing Asbestos-Caused Diseases
Part Two: High Risk Occupations
Part Three: Understand the Warning Symptoms for Asbestos-Caused Diseases
October is Health Literacy Month: Preventing Asbestos-Caused Diseases
October is Health Literacy Month, and at the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO), that means saving lives through prevention. Everyone should know the Irrefutable Facts about how to protect your loved ones from asbestos exposure because the only two ways to end asbestos-caused diseases are prevention and a cure.
Our theme is “Be a Health Literacy Hero.” We ask you to be a hero today by reading and sharing the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s “Asbestos Fact Sheet” about asbestos exposure in the workplace.
This week, we highlight prevention of home, school, and workplace exposure to asbestos. Take a few moments to read and share the important facts below.
- Always remember that asbestos is a known carcinogen that has not been banned in the US.
- Watch and share “The asbestos issue is not a thing of the past. It continues to this day,” Acting U.S. Surgeon General Boris Lushniak’s 2014 interview with ADAO.
- Understand where asbestos might be in your home, school, and workplace.
- Never test, remove or even sweep up asbestos yourself! Contact your EPA regional office for a list of licensed asbestos professionals in your area.
If you have any reason for concern, visit www.epa.gov/asbestos/ for more information, call the EPA’s Asbestos Ombudsman at 800-368-5888, or contact the Environmental Information Association, a multidisciplinary non-profit association, for testing and abatement inquires.
For more information about asbestos exposure at home, download our one-page flyer: “Identifying Asbestos in Your Home.”
In unity,
Linda Reinstein
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