Re: Chemical nastiness (poke in eye/contacts)

[rafeb@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

On 30 Dec 2001 at 16:08, Jerry Kimberlin wrote:

> Safety in the working environment is always an individual
> responsibility, regardless of what the MSDS, label, or common
> practise dictates. Anyone who continues to suffer dermatitus or
> breathing difficulties while working with chemicals is sort of a
> fool.  But what one person cannot tolerate doesn't mean that others
> can't either.  I don't like the do-gooders who try to impose
> conditions on others in the guise of safety since they really don't
> know - only the individual really knows.


Sounds like you'd be right at home in Mr. Peabody's coal 
mines, Jerry -- dying young with a ripe case of black lung.

Yeah, the individual knows -- once the tumors are large 
enough to show up on a mammogram or MRI scan.  

Your statement strikes me as foolish and laughable.  
Intensely so -- but hey, this is a scanner list, not a politics 
list, so I'll hold my tongue.

Safety a personal responsibility?  Yeah, sure.  Please do 
a net search on "Bhopal India Union Carbide 1984"


rafe b.

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