TasNetworks is in discussion with 19 current and former hydro workers about chemical exposure in the 1960s, 70s and 80sWorkers say they used to be"covered" in the chemicals and that they did not wear protective clothingThe chemicals were sprayed by workers in groups of three or four to cut undergrowth and trees underneath transmission lines.
The spraying occurred primarily between the 1950s and the 1970s, but in some cases up until the 1990s. The State Government has confirmed WorkSafe Tasmania was working with TasNetworks to examine the claims.He suffers from severe asthma, which he believes is linked to chemical exposure during work at the Hydro in the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
. Rachel Carsons book “Silent Spring” about the environmental effects of pesticides was first published in 1962. Since then the lives of thousands of people have been destroyed by decades of cumulative exposure to neurotoxic and carcinogenic chemicals. .
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