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To: Crocodile who wrote (41054)	11/4/1999 10:10:00 PM
From: Constant Reader	Respond to of 71178

I have friends doing vintage car restorations who won't wear their masks. And they wonder why I don't like to be around them while they are painting or sanding!

To: Crocodile who wrote (41054)	11/4/1999 11:10:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

My first "industrial"-type job was at Exxon Refinery in Baton Rouge, one of the biggest refineries in the world. This was in 1973, the federal government made them hire women for the first time. It was a pretty good place to work, very well-heeled corporation with a pretty decent safety record, and they did make the safety gear available, but the macho guys didn't want to use it. Now that's pushing 30 years ago. And OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Act was enacted about then, 1971 comes to mind. But what happened was that the business owners didn't want it, and they talked it down, and if you were a "good" employee, why then, you didn't want all that "crap," because you wanted the boss to like you. I am glad those days are gone. But Gaugie has posted before about watching people in third world countries working without safety gear, or even gloves. My point being merely that safety isn't a new thing, and there's always the impulse to downplay the need. I am reading a book now called "Traces of the Appalachians," about serpentine rock formations that mark the boundaries between a couple of plates that stretch along the eastern part of North America, from Georgia to Newfoundland. One of the rocks found along with serpentine is asbestos. I once worked in a law firm that specialized in asbestosis cases, so it was poignant to me to read the narrative about the miners that refused to wear safety gear becaue they didn't believe the asbestos was dangerous. But it was well-known in the 1930's that asbestos was associated with lung disease, and that asbestos workers should wear respirators, but they wouldn't. People believe what is convenient.