Remarks Unlikely to release fibres during use but cutting with power tools should be avoided. Products are made up from loose asbestos and cotton fibre with plaster dust. Hairdryers, fan and radiant electric heaters, toasters, washing machines, tumble dryers, spin dryers, dish washers, refrigerators and freezers -paper, element formers, brake pads, compressed fibre gaskets and seals, rubberised or other polymer gaskets and seals. Cookers -insulating board, fire cement, compressed fibre seals, rubberised or other polymer seals. Simmering mats -millboard.
Iron stands -paper, millboard and asbestos cement.
Oven gloves, fire blankets -textiles. Catalytic gas heaters -compressed asbestos fibre panels, sometimes covered by a wire or glass fibre mesh. Radiators -string, washers.