[Closed] Too much dust in old office room with worn floor - is it dangerous?

That worn flooring 'could' contain asbestos. Get a piece tested.

AS ABOVE ASBESTOS, block of flats we worked at last year, few thermo plastic tiles missing, insurance co requested an asbestos survey, and it was found asbestios was in the concrete floor, result floor sealed with new carpet.

Are you serious?

I thought it was due to the cleaners sweeping dust.

The floor looks pretty worn.

I might take a sample and have it tested.

lots of un seen and untouched asbestos knocking around, it was cheap, did the job well , protection against fire, and insulation etc, it just kills people later on in life its know known.

http://www.asbestos.com/products/general/vinyl-products.php

best to be safe

Well it was an old school originally.

I've emailed the site manager to check it out.

I've sat in that room breathed the air. Mouthful of dust.

Am I a dead man walking? 🙁

Am I a dead man walking?

Your name might give you a clue about that

using a vacumn cleaner with out proper dust filters will just spread the dust round the room,

as for old schools google cwm carn asbestos school

Possibly not quite as iffy as the studio at the print/publishing place I worked at for eighteen years; it was an old Salvation Army Citadel, and upstairs where I was the floor was really worn wooden floorboards with gaps between, and most people there smoked, so the floor, and most of everything else was covered with a layer of dust mixed with fag ash.
Plus there were the mice that ran riot over everything at night, drawn by all the food crumbs lying around, and the dust and ash were held together by the Spraymount and Photomount that was used as well.
I'm amazed I've managed to get to my sixties, really.

When you say "an old part...", when would you be talking about? When was it built?

Are you serious?

I thought it was due to the cleaners sweeping dust.

Dust in any work place is broadly a bad idea, not so much because it could be asbestos but more because it could be [i]anything[/i] and is probably a lot of different things, variously toxic or unhygienic or at least bad-tasting. Whatever the flooring is made of its probably not something you'd be happy to eat.

Its not a problem of sweeping of hoovering , the problem is that the floor (or something) is unsealed or disintegrating and turning to dust, so cleaning is just creating more dust. Whatever the source of the dust is needs to be sealed, covered or replaced.

Thank you everyone for their advice.

I think the floor is breaking up which the cleaners brush/sweep up.

I will demand a repair or find somewhere else to employ me!

Or just paint it with PVA one evening, to reseal the surface....

There's a particular paint used for industrial concrete flooring that's very hard wearing, the entire ground floor of where I work has been done, and that has fork trucks, pallet trucks, and very big pallets loaded with heavy stacks of boxes being dragged and pushed over it, and it's lasted years. Best option, really, then get Lino put on top to completely seal the whole floor.

To quote a recent asbestos tester we had on site. "You'd have to grind those tiles into dust and use them as snuff before it hurt you". This is somewhat a relaxed viewpoint but I wouldn't worry too much. Raise the concerns and get it checked. Dust of any kind is not good to work in long term..

This is somewhat a relaxed viewpoint

And a fairly irresponsible one too.

Well yes and no. The plastic/vinyl tiles we had on site had so little in they aren't considered that harmful. Standard paper suit and dust mask to remove then a spray of pva on the remaining sub floor. When "proper" asbestos was dealt with it was full enclosure and shower block afterwards.
I was trying to ease the op's health concerns.