One could be forgiven for thinking that these pictures are from a industrial operation in a 3rd world country or an abandoned operation in outback Australia - No, the pictures are of BHPbilliton Kwinana Nickel Refinery the worlds 3rd largest producer of Nickel.
In 2004 this shed was declared a no go zone because of the danger, all these years later and despite complaints from members of the community BHPbilliton and our authorities have done nothing to rectify this situation.
It really is a shame that such a BIG AUSTRALIAN and the worlds largest mining company can't even afford to replace some asbestos on a shed., or is it a case of BHPbilliton just doesn't really care enough to bother spending money to do the right thing by the local community and workers?
Addition 12-08-09
Some background information on Asbestos can be found here:
A brief history of Asbestos
Asbestos its chemical and physical properties
Asbestos a manufacturing health hazard dating to prehistoric times - pg 1
Asbestos a manufacturing health hazard dating to prehistoric times - pg 2
3 comments:
The Big Australian, what an insult to the Aussie people. They care so much for their workers health, they can't replace an asbestos roof.
They don't believe in monitoring for Nickel, eventhough it's a carcinogen. Our government aren't much better, where have they stated in the license this toxin MUST be monitored? Gee, I guess they forgot.
How many other toxins are we exposed to daily? What happened to being forthright and earning 'Trust'in the community?
It seems that BHP can spend over one million on landscaping the car park at KNR, re-roof the the storage shed that replaced the one in the photograph at KNR, replace the roof on the administration building at KNR.
Then thousands of dollar in advertising telling us our good a corporate citizen they are. All since 2004.
TYKE
Wow, is this for real? Terrible, I would have never thought something like this could possibly happen in Australia. People from BHP don't really seem to care. Do they even realize how much they risk the health of all the workers?
Regards, Julie
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