[P.J.]

Joe you are asolutely correct, the family is also affected by the chemicals you bring home.
Inhalation is another way chemicals enter your body.
When I was a safety rep for our workplace I noticed a patern of industial disease occuring in in our workers at the plant.In one paricular case a worker related to me one day that while working on kevlar in the plastic shop he developed a onset of temporary blindness,and was not able to drive home. This scared the H---ll out of me. So the next morning I handed out a survey asking for examples of
symptoms arizing out of working with chemicals. When the responses came back I knew we had a serious problem.
So we hired a independent clinic to do an assesment of our workers and report their findings.The report that came back
confirmed our suspicions. The company was hiding the incidents of industrial disease from the workers and the workers Compensation Board.
The s--it hit the fan, we had 300 employees that refused to work on the grounds that the chemicals they were working with were ijureing them and they had no knowledge on how to protect themselves. Well we ended up fixing the problem
as the company agreed to train each employee and provide the plant with material safety data sheets, provide proper safety equipment and install fresh air syatems in the plant.
This was in 1985. this action on safey prompted the provinial goverment of the day to legislate safety for the workers and the right to know what they were working with.
It took the efforts of many to rectify this serious problem."Felt real good"
PJ