• 1.84K Posts
  • 33 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: July 16th, 2023

help-circle




















  • I think it all depends on which app you are using .

    On some apps the title link is the thumbnail along with the link under the header.

    Whereas on other apps the title or header link is to be found below the post!

    Confused? …So am I

    Yip - There are two separate videos in the post, Modern Standardised English is definitely being spoken in video 1…The Title …Just as it says ‘In English’



  • Dear reporter of Spam

    Please report your reasons as to why you consider this article to be spam, in the first instance to the authors:

    Titilola Falasinnu

    Correspondence: Dr Titilola Falasinnu, Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94304, USA

    Or directly to the Lancet

    Office addresses

    Postal address

    The Lancet Group

    125 London Wall

    London, EC2Y 5AS, UK

    Americas

    Cambridge

    50 & 60 Hampshire Street, 5th Floor Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

    New York

    230 Park Avenue New York, NY 10169, USA

    Philadelphia

    1600 John F Kennedy Boulevard, Suite 1600 Philadelphia, PA 19103 2398, USA

    Rio de Janeiro

    Praça Quinze de Novembro, 20, 5th floor, Centro Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20010-010, Brazil




  • And again, what you consider to be merely an economic issue is exactly where you seem to be missing the point.

    Quarrying is environmentally destructive. It has contamination and pollution issues. It carries health issues. As well as the costly logistics of transporting bulk around the planet. Governments these days no longer wish any company, large or small, to go around tearing rock, in any form - pre ground or otherwise -out of the ground. So your next problem would be sourcing the base materials for your manufactured product legally.

    Economically, even if you did manage to quarry,crush,sieve,grade and mix your sand for lets say £1000 a ton. What architect on the planet would specify the use of such an environmentally unfriendly and costly material and what construction company in the world would pay such a price?

    Architects are already specifying more sustainable materials and construction techniques are changeing, but at present, people are still destroying the planet and killing each other for sand ! That’s the current economic situation.


  • Nobody is saying that without a time limit and at great expence sand can not be manufactured, but it is not even that simple.

    Firstly : You would have to quarry your rock of preference before crushing, sieving, grading, and more than likely, also having to transport your specific rock grains to be mixed with other types of crushed and graded chips, depending on your sands ultimate purpose.

    Secondly : It is not cheap to extract stone from the earth plus quarrying leaves very big holes in the ground! Permission from authorities to open new quarries or pits is not easily obtained in most countries.

    Thirdly: Crushing is hazardous, polluting, environmentally destructive and very expensive .

    The sand problem has been bubbling away on the back burner for years, hence the many and various ongoing efforts from all around the globe to recycle or create new and innovative construction materials.


  • Why the world is running out of sand

    Our planet is covered in it. Huge deserts from the Sahara to Arizona have billowing dunes of the stuff. Beaches on coastlines around the world are lined with sand. We can even buy bags of it at our local hardware shop for a fistful of small change.

    But believe it or not, the world is facing a shortage of sand. How can we possibly be running low on a substance found in virtually every country on earth and that seems essentially limitless?

    The problem lies in the type of sand we are using. Desert sand is largely useless to us. The overwhelming bulk of the sand we harvest goes to make concrete, and for that purpose, desert sand grains are the wrong shape. Eroded by wind rather than water, they are too smooth and rounded to lock together to form stable concrete.

    The sand we need is the more angular stuff found in the beds, banks, and floodplains of rivers, as well as in lakes and on the seashore. The demand for that material is so intense that around the world, riverbeds and beaches are being stripped bare, and farmlands and forests torn up to get at the precious grains. And in a growing number of countries, criminal gangs have moved in to the trade, spawning an often lethal black market in sand.

    https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191108-why-the-world-is-running-out-of-sand


  • You could be right on the governments dislike of a popular and profitable imported product!.. But what about RPE ?

    RPE will not eliminate disease in cases of extended long term exposure.

    RPE has only to be used as ‘The very last resort’…and is only supposed to be used as…‘The very last resort’…and only as…‘The very last resort’ for short periods of time, as…‘The very last resort’

    Why do so many people equate the usage of respiratory protection with ‘A Safe Working Environment ?’

    In areas where long term usage of such protection is required, an operatives working environment is exactly the opposite of ‘SAFE’ !

    There is No Known Safe Working Exposure Limit when working in respirable crystalline silica dust…NONE !



  • Do I sound upset ? Crikey! ha ha

    Sorry duder ,I am immune to upset and trivialities such as social media comments do not even register as irratation on my ragged toenail scale.

    I do attempt to upload the original paper where possible, but when (As is par for the course these days) the publication is behind a paywall and as in this case, without even an abstract ,then the news article has to be the option for the post.

    Take care and have an article annoyance free day .



  • Personally I found the statement in the image below to be more informative and was probably composed by a more mature hand, at least it made me chuckle.

    As did the journalistic capabilities of the academic who wrote that article!

    Rather than let such nonsense bother you why not write for them,they pay 50/60$ per article…Can you do any worse ? Get yourself a degree and find out!

    Write for TheCollector. Join an International Community

    With over four hundred vetted junior and senior academics, we now have over 3 million monthly pageviewsc To be eligible to publish on TheCollector you must hold an educational degree in the topics you write about (Bachelor of Arts, a Master’s degree or student, or a PhD) or are a researcher or academic with a university or university-affiliated research institution.

    We pay a nominal fee of US$50-60 per article via Paypal


  • It is not quite as the BBC (as usual) tries to skew the story a wholly UK wide problem, it is a problem in England simply because England has privatised water and the private utility companies involved skim the profits off the top without reinvesting in infrastructure.

    In Scotland water is nationalised ,although not perfect as there is still some farm run off and leaching along with a certain amount of storm drain overflowing during severe weather,most rivers are pretty good and there is no effluent in the drinking water.


  • I would say that slavery could perhaps be considered an occupational hazard!

    Slavery or the imprisoning /detaining personel against their will to enforce labour was once common in farming ,construction and many other industries in this country and probably still goes on.

    Gangs would (and probably still do) convince unwitting refugees to come over here to work for them on the promise of great wages and full board. Once here these people would be kept in shacks,caravans and the likes, but usually in overcrowded slum conditions, threatened with violence or beaten daily and forced to work without pay or for food (if they were lucky)

    A few years back the construction industry raised awareness of this problem and asked the workforce to be vigilant,to keep their eyes open and report any signs or suspicions of enforced labour. Thanks to this awareness campaign many of these gangs were caught and imprisoned ,thousands of illegally detained people were released… The car wash app was set up for a similar purpose

    Raising awareness on the subject of occupational hazards is not solely about RPE ,employees face many risks and many hazards…

    As for car washing ,PPE required would be waterproof footwear and clothing ,protective gloves , eye protection, a respirator for use when cleaning the inside of dirty vehicles , a respirator would also be required when the likes of chemical sprays, special waxes, sealers, body finishes or any other solvents were in use… Take care



  • Masks are only supposed to be used as the very last resort ,it matters not a jot if you have a top of the range respirator ,in those conditions workers could put a new filter in their masks every morning and they would still be breathing in dust . No fit is ever perfect and they all leak.

    There simply should be no people working in such areas, full stop. Not even if they were kitted out with PAPR respirators and the unit had a regulator specified and fully certified LEV system running 24/7. These are areas where only machines should be employed . But once again it all comes down to production costs and profit…People are cheap. Take care ,stay safe and dust free.


  • Silica is in many things and widely used everywhere, apart from the obvious dusty trades,sandblasters ,stonemasons,bricklayers,plasters,roofers,painters and decorators, demolition workers frackers ,miners, quarrymen and highway workers.

    Plumbers,electricians,refractory workers ,military personnel,tech workers ,lorry and machine drivers ,jewelers ,dental technicians ,farmers,foundry workers,glass workers,horse trainers,potters,metal grinders ,greenhouse gardeners and even teachers of old have been known to succumb to the masons cough ( Which was once known as Potters Rot )and/or one or more of the myriad of silica associated diseases .

    ( My apologies if I missed anyone out )

    Unfortunately there is no known or quantifiable safe occupational limit for silica exposure (Despite what the corporately owned politicians and regulators quote as fact ) and respirators are only supposed to be used as the very last resort ,none are 100% efficient ,they all leak ,hence the coding .