COCA strongly supports WorkSafeBC’s new Hiding in Plain Sight campaign, which focuses on asbestos and the home owner.
This is an excellent initiative that targets homeowners — and contractors they may hire — who are demolishing or renovating homes built be fore 1990.
COCA urges both home owners and their contractors to be aware of the deadly consequences of ignoring or underestimating the risks of asbestos containing materials in the home. The WorkSafeBC initiative comes at a time when hundreds of homes in B.C. are being demolished and many others renovated.
Read the full Journal of Commerce article –> COCA Supports WorkSafeBC Initiative
More helpful information is available at thinkasbestos.com. COCA encourages its members to share this information and promote the need to work safely in order to identify and remove asbestos.