1.    Introduction
    1.1 - Objectives
    1.2 - Approach
    1.3 - Evaluation of health risks - environmental exposure to asbestos

2.    Summary of Environmental Health Criteria (EHC) No. 53
    2.1 - Identity, physical and chemical properties, methods of sampling
       and analysis
    2.2 - Sources of occupational and environmental exposure
    2.3 - Environmental levels and exposure
    2.4 - Toxicological effects on animals
    2.5 - Effects on man
    2.6 - Evaluation of health risks

3.    Asbestos in public buildings, including aspects of their construction,
       renovation and demolition

4.    Asbestos in the production, maintenance and use of vehicles
    4.11 - Occupational risks
    4.2 - Pollution of the general environment

5.    Transportation, storage, and disposal of asbestos

6.    Conclusions and recommendations
    6.1 - Conclusions
    6.2 - General recommendations
    6.3 - Specific recommendations:
         6.3.1 - Asbestos in public buildings
         6.3.2 - Asbestos waste disposal
         6.3.3 - Friction materials

(Annexes are not included in this summary)

ANNEX I - Asbestos Risk in Buildings and Building Maintenance, Dr. Garry J. Burdett

ANNEX II - Reducing Exposures to Asbestos in the United States, Ms Susan Vogt

ANNEX III - Asbestos Risk in Vehicle Manufacture, Maintenance, and Repair,
             Professor Fedor Valic

ANNEX IV - Management of Asbestos Waste, Collection, Transportation, Storage and
             Disposal, Mr. Sims Roy

ANNEX V - Industry's Views on the Needs and Feasibility of Environmental Asbestos
            Reduction, Sir Neville Stack

I P C S
International Program on Chemical Safety (IPCS), Joint sponsorship of United Nations Environment Programme, International Labour Organisation, World Health Organisation

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