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HEALTH AND SAFETY SHAMBLES<\/b>\u2013 MY OWN PERSONAL EXPERIENCES <\/b><\/p>\n
Why the curious title?- all will be revealed.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0Swanwatche’s association with the pool began in 1999. Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974,<\/a>\u00a0 Albright and Wilson and Rhodia had and still have a duty to protect visitors as well as staff on their sites by Law. <\/a><\/b><\/p>\n THERE WAS NO MENTION OF ANY TOXIC CHEMICALS BEING PRESENT IN THE LAGOON AT THIS TIME ,\u201cHAZARDOUS WASTE\u201d, OR IT\u2019S ACUTE EFFECTS, AND NO INFORMATION WAS FORTHCOMING ABOUT WHAT POTENTIALLY COULD BE KILLING THE BIRDS.<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n THERE WAS NO MENTION OF ANY TOXIC CHEMICALS BEING PRESENT IN THE LAGOON AT THIS TIME ,\u201cHAZARDOUS WASTE\u201d, OR IT\u2019S ACUTE EFFECTS, AND NO INFORMATION WAS FORTHCOMING ABOUT WHAT POTENTIALLY COULD BE KILLING THE BIRDS.<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0COMPARE THIS TO THE\u00a0ARTICLE FROM LANKELMA <\/b>lankelma_news_autumn_09<\/a>\u00a0, (subcontractors to Rhodia’s paid investigative lagoon study of which they have never made public the results). THE SAFETY INFORMATION THAT THEY HAD BEEN GIVEN CAN BE READ THERE.<\/b><\/p>\n A colleague of mine entered the sediment where he sank as far as his thighs in the known contaminated \u201c beach area\u201d. His shoe was retrieved after some difficulty locating it and the Rhodia staff ended up having to rescue him! THERE WAS NO MENTION OF ANY TOXIC CHEMICALS BEING PRESENT IN THE LAGOON AT THIS TIME ,\u201cHAZARDOUS WASTE\u201d, OR IT\u2019S ACUTE EFFECTS, AND NO INFORMATION WAS FORTHCOMING ABOUT WHAT POTENTIALLY COULD BE KILLING THE BIRDS. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n SL31 LICENCE<\/a><\/p>\n Condition \u201c16. Within a period of 6 months from the date of issue of this licence the site shall be fully bounded by fencing of a type\u00a0 or types approved by the licencing\u00a0 authority. All additional fencing required in order to comply with this condition shall be erected at locations agreed by the Licencing\u00a0<\/b> Authority. All fencing shall be maintained to the satisfaction of the Licencing<\/b> Authority.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n Condition \u201c17. The gate at the site entrance shall be locked when the site is unattended. All other reasonable precautions shall be taken to prevent unauthorised access of vehicles or members of the public or fly tipping on site.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n No display of a waste management licence was and still cannot be found on the site- condition 6, another contravention of the licence.<\/p>\n “6. The terms of the site licence shall be made known to the users of the site and any persons who are given responsibility for the management or control of the site. A copy of the site licence shall be displayed at a prominent point within the site.”<\/strong><\/p>\n This therefore confirms that\u00a0I was not in a position to read for myself about what was contained in the pool.\u00a0 I received a letter from Tom Dutton requesting that I needed to contact Rhodia before entering the site \u201cfor legal reasons\u201d, though there is no explanation of what these \u201cLEGAL REASONS \u201c were or it was in the interests of safety because the pool contained undefined \u201chazardous waste\u201d<\/p>\n It is clear to us now, through our\u00a0own research\u00a0that this site offers a high risk of injury given the highly toxic waste that it contains. WE WOULD NOT ENCOURAGE ANYONE TO ENTER THIS SITE<\/span>. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n There were and remain no warnings on site about what the risks of coming into contact with such materials are. This of course what lies at the whole crux of the issue of bird deaths at the site- and it is why both Albright and Wilson and Rhodia failed to make those specific risks clear at the site.<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n This letter reminds Rhodia of their responsibilities but did not investigate them any further. Without clear guidance on the long term health risks of white phosphorus exposure, which no\u00a0GP would be likely to be aware of\u00a0or any other chemicals in the sediment from either the company or the HSE, \u00a0it is difficult to see how anyone can pursue the matter with a clear path ahead. Former Albright and Wilson employees are now experiencing fatal slow burning illnesses as a result of their exposure to chemicals and substances in the workplace. Health and Safety and the Act which underpins it totally failed them<\/a>, as did the HSE.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cas regards further information on the possible impact chemicals may have had on Mr Carroll\u2019s health, I can confirm the following<\/b><\/p>\n -A very small proportion of the waste contain yellow phosphorus- the vast majority of waste in the lagoon being inert calcium phosphate slurry<\/b><\/p>\n -Yellow phosphorus will catch fire on exposure to air, hence if yellow phosphorus comes in to contact with skin in air it will cause burns<\/b><\/p>\n -Mr Carroll did not suffer any burns immediately after contact with the lagoon and so could not have suffered any ill health effects<\/b><\/p>\n -Ingestion is possible but any ingestion would have an immediate, acute toxicological effect. These effects were not seen by Mr Carroll and so he could not have been affected by phosphorus in this way.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n This bizarre letter was the final nail in the coffin for Rhodia\u2019s lying spin about the real contents of the \u201chazardous waste\u201d<\/b> that it really contained. In answer to the nonsense , which\u00a0this letter\u00a0tries to present, (obviously carefully legally worded and PR spinned)<\/p>\n “we did not analyse the concentrations of chemicals in the sediment”<\/strong><\/p>\n This is what the Lankelma write-up stated that they were doing on the lagoon in 2009 in the study denied by Rhodia<\/span>. lankelma_news_autumn_09<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0YES, WE COULD NOT HAVE PUT IT BETTER OURSELVES INTO HOW THIS COMPANY HAS POISONED MANY BIRDS ON THE SITE, COMPROMISED OUR HEALTH AND SAFTEY AND THAT OF OTHERS, AND HAVE CONSISTENTLY SPOONFED US A PACK OF ODIOUS LIES, BUT AT MEETINGS <\/a>, TELEPHONE CONVERSATIONS, E-MAILS AND\u00a0SITE VISITS MADE, <\/b><\/p>\n THERE WAS NO MENTION OF ANY TOXIC CHEMICALS BEING PRESENT IN THE LAGOON AT THIS TIME,\u201cHAZARDOUS WASTE\u201d, OR IT\u2019S ACUTE EFFECTS, AND NO INFORMATION WAS FORTHCOMING ABOUT WHAT POTENTIALLY COULD BE KILLING THE BIRDS. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Not long after they received the letter from the HSE, I was invited to the site in order to view the first confirmed proven exposure to white phosphorus in a swan. It is fairly obvious now that this was merely a tool to try to ascertain what health effects that I had reported to the HSE.<\/p>\n It is interesting to note that at another meeting \u00a0when asked by a resident if White phosphorus was harmful, Tom Dutton replied \u201cas long as you don\u2019t<\/b> swallow it you\u2019ll be alright\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b>This meeting generated no minutes, I wonder why?<\/b><\/p>\n The following Material safety data sheet was given out to myself and residents that attended\u00a0this meeting at Trinity Street, long after my invitation onto the Rhodia site. Too little too late is the phrase that springs to mind.<\/p>\n RISKS OF HANDLING \u00a0SWANS\/BIRDS EXPOSED TO WHITE PHOSPHORUS AND THOSE TAKEN INTO CARE AFTER P4 INGESTION<\/b><\/p>\n Consideration to the following points should be noted<\/b><\/p>\n Rhodia did not tell us this, but obviously knew this. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n RHODIA HAD THIS REPORT, THEY DID NOT TELL US THIS. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n P4 poisoned swan rescued from toxic lagoon 10\/3\/08, which we placed under a UV lamp, as is standard practice for ill birds.<\/p><\/div>\n BOTTOM LINE RHODIA DID NOT TELL US ANYTHING AND NEITHER CONSIDERED THE RISK TO OUR PERSONAL HEALTH NOR THAT OF THE BIRDS<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n WE THERFORE LEAVE IT TO THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION AS TO WHAT KIND OF COMPANY RHODIA ARE WHEN IT COMES TO ITS VISITORS HEALTH AND SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0May I take this opportunity however to state that<\/span><\/span> the Rhodia trousers served their master well for many years. They\u00a0served on the occassion when I was knee deep in sediment retrieving a P4 poisoned swan on 10\/3 \/08 shown above and after\u00a0several washes removing sediment that had been in contact with the lake down the foul sewer- they were like spanking new\u00a0– it’s just a shame that its wearer had been wronged like the wildfowl on the lake by being fed falsehoods. Alas they bit the dust in a recycling bag, and may as you read this, be walking around some third world\u00a0sweatshop manufacturing some dangerous chemicals for entrepreneurial export. I’m sure that Arthur Albright would have approved. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hung out to dry- Not the original Rhodia trousers, but a cunning imposter!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HEALTH AND SAFETY SHAMBLES\u2013 MY OWN PERSONAL EXPERIENCES Why the curious title?- all will be revealed. \u00a0Swanwatche’s association with the pool began in 1999. 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