[ventus45]

On re-considering Gobbledock's post "A PFOS a day keeps Sir An(g)us away"
( http://auntypru.com/forum/-Things-that-g...91#pid5491 )

It may be that the "other", perhaps "more pressing reason", for lifting the threshold from 350,000 to 500,000, is to help make the case for "expediting" the "500 to 900" REDUNDANCIES (approx 1,000) out of a TOTAL ASA workforce of 4,500.

If "most" of those redundancies are firefighters, then "paying them off - and getting rid of them", helps to remove, or at least substantially reduce, the "potential PFOS liability".

If you get rid of them, they leave ASA, they leave the UNION, and they are effectively "isolated" and forced (later) to "fight the legal battles for compensation on their own". We all know how successful that would be.

Government "AGENTS" have a "track record" for this sort of bastardisation.

Remember the F-111 "fuel tank sealing issue" ?

To me, it seems like the probable beginning of a re-run of the situation faced by those ex-RAAF Airmen, who were ground staff who had to do the internal re-sealing of the F-111 Fuel Tanks all those years ago, with nasty chemicals, which later caused serious illness, and worse.

If I were an ASA firefighter, I would "start screaming bloody blue murder - NOW" !!