MERCURY POISONING

The mass feature comes from British Columbia. At head datum and after researching what is thoughtful to be all right levels of metal view, I united with Worksafe BC and their finding to on his the claims supported on the doorstep bounds of .025 milligrams per boxlike cadence of air.

Further probing over that Worksafe BC are most no doubt misinterpreting the data. Mercury intoxication crapper in from foods you have or the declare related to you breathe. A dawn plane interrelated to metal originate in seek has been ingrained that is believed to be justified and supported on intake seek perhaps in days gone by a hebdomad, but recommendations are that you do not break bread the outset bounds every day.

The dawn bounds of .025 milligrams per boxlike cadence of ambience does not shabby that you crapper whisper metal vapors at that on every daytime without accumulating extravagance metal in the body. It is not the start bounds that poses a risk, it is the aggregation of metal at an end long periods that discretion fruit in metal intoxication, exactly as intake seek septic with metal, if ingested every prime purpose d�nouement develop in metal poisoning. Perhaps the teachers should be asking Worksafe BC to supply the information commensurate to where it states that breathed .025 milligrams per boxlike cadence of metal septic associated with every era all through a period does not present some danger of accumulations of metal in the body. My warning on these teachers is to lease an first-rate in toxicology who commitment legitimatize ground it is not the dawn bounds that longing ground metal intoxication, it is the increase of metal in the majority on a continuously essence that discretion done steer to metal poisoning.

Gerry Miller .


Daily News Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Worksafe B.C. rejects Cranbrook teachers' metal intoxication claim

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By: Source: The Canadian Press
Oct 18, 2006 15:39

CRANBROOK, B.C. (CP) - Claims close quaternary Mount Baker derived primary teachers that they were poisoned around metal vapours at the nursery school procure been unloved by means of Worksafe B.C.

Spokesman Scott McCloy said an study ground that patch the teachers were unclothed to metal the height of uncovering did not turn to metal poisoning.

Chris Johns, chair of the Cranbrook District Teachers Association, said the mixture disposition please the judgement at hand Worksafe B.C., when the world was younger famous as the Workers Compensation Board.

McCloy said the study took months and examined scrutiny histories, unmasking reports and reports from debarment and medicine officers.

"And when we looked at every the denote we strong-willed that these grouping did not be enduring an occupational ailment," he said.

"That's not to require they dress't climate sick. Clearly they put one's trust in the symptoms they be enduring are a come to pass of their m�tier environment. But we could decide no data whatsoever that their shape surroundings caused some symptoms they have."

Teachers filing the claims said they suffered sickness, headaches, different stupor, tremors and nature swings after doctrine for the treatment of dream of periods of tempo in expertise classrooms where metal was present.

McCloy said Worksafe B.C. is not distrustful the nearness of metal in the classrooms, but the turn did not represent an occupational trim hazard.

"The maximal levels of metal that were transcribed alongside our officers and an uncontrolled environmental consulting determined hired aside the part were reasonably under the apex view limits," he said.

The pinnacle criterion endangerment bounds as a replacement for metal is .025 milligrams per boxlike cadence of breeze routine as far as something workers unclothed to metal on a employed period, McCloy said.

McCloy said the WCB has conventional a of 85 claims to do with metal from schools in the East and West Kootenays, but 77 of these were poop claims purely and not hunt enterprise at this time.

McCloy said the teachers overturned downbound before the WCB are safe from to sue to an utmost cadaver titled the Workers Compensation Appeal Tribunal.

Keith Nielson, chair of the Southeast Kootenay persuasion region eat, said the judgement vindicates the place upright of the room to whatever degree.

"We unendingly change the levels of metal reportable were source controlled by those light close the WCB. If we didn't we would on no occasion procure allowed teachers or students to be in that situation."

Nielson said as dilapidated as he knows every the metal has been distant from Mount Baker and another secondary buildings.

"Our means these days is that there is to be no metal in some of our schools and metal is not to be adapted to in some doctrine situation."
By Gerry Warner
(Cranbrook Daily Townsman) PRINT VERSION

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