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Home Contamination
Fatal lung diseases including mesothelioma have also occurred among family members of workers exposed to asbestos on the job. Families have also been exposed to asbestos when workers were engaged in asbestos removal operations.
In 1992 the U.S. Congress passed the Workers' Family Protection Act, which requested that the CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) conduct a study to "evaluate the potential for, prevalence of, and issues related to, the contamination of workers' homes with hazardous chemicals and substances . . . transported from the workplaces of such workers."
Dangers included workers inadvertently carrying hazardous materials such as asbestos home from work on their clothes, skin, hair, tools and in their vehicles.
As a result, families of these workers have been exposed to hazardous substances and have developed various health problems, including mesothelioma.
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