Shipbroken: EU inspectors ignore lethal practices at Turkish shipyards Shipbreaking is one of the world’s most dangerous jobs. Can the EU keep workers safe? The workers will get sick. They’ll probably be dead in the next ten years. Or maybe twenty. The trio of independent asbestos experts can’t agree on the exact prognosis, but do agree on the diagnosis: if the substance in the video is asbestos, then the workers will almost certainly succumb to fatal lung diseases within the next few decades. We showed three independent asbestos experts video footage, taken on a mobile phone in January this year, of workers at Kılıçlar shipbreaking yard in Aliağa, the heart of Turkey’s shipbreaking industry. The men casually toss into a large bin broken pieces of interior walls from a cargo ship Kılıçlar purchased to sell for scrap. One is unmasked and the other man’s mask is unfit for purpose. Both are devoid of proper protective clothing. There is no containment tent or decontamination procedures and no safety supervisor. Operating without these legally required precautions means there is little to prevent the deadly microscopic fibres from infecting their lungs or floating on the breeze to neighbouring shipyards and towns, where they might infect others. READ MORE
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