FALSE ECONOMIES: GRAVE CONSEQUENCES
October 1st 2004 The pressures on contracting services to reduce costs are relentless and are well understood by manufacturers and suppliers to the asbestos removal industry.
However, says Scott Health & Safety, substituting inferior copies of consumable filters for use on power-assisted respirators is not only false economy, it can have grave consequences.
Of greatest concern is the health risk to the wearer of using equipment that has not been approved.
The limited amount of data available on these ‘copy’ filters indicates, says Scott, that their performance with power assisted respirators commonly used in the industry is well below that of the approved product.
Scott questions whether the asbestos industry, that has done so much in recent years to tidy up its act and present a responsible face to the public, would want to suffer the consequences of what may appear to be a short term saving. It says use of inferior filters may, potentially, produce future claims, legal costs, and criminal charges. More articles from Scott Safety Ltd: | 
