Dust ‘not harmful’
A thorough search of the Government Life office building in Cathedral Square yesterday found no harmful amounts of “blue” asbestos dust. Health Department officials lugged a suitcasesized monitoring machine through every room in the seven-storey building. “There was no indication whatever of anything hazardous,” said the assistant commissioner of the State
Services Commission in Christchurch, Mr Eamonn Delaney. The regional secretary of - the Public Service Association, Mr J. M. McKenzie, said that the asbestos had been sprayed on to heating S in the ceilings of the ing in 1968 — before the dangers of “blue” asbestos were realised and its use banned. The asbestos was flaking off, and getting into offices through damaged
ceiling tiles, he said. A contractor had been vacuuming the dust and spraying on a compound which sets hard over the remaining asbestos, but last week the 300 staff in the building held a meeting after the dust was found on furniture.
Mr Delaney said that as well as the monitoring all ceiling tiles in the building were being inspected, and, if necessary, replaced.
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