Back in the 80's I worked as a asbestos remover in Canberra, Sydney and Perth. Really good money and all controlled by the now disbanded Builders Labourers Federation. Heavy heavy.  Usually I wore a space suit with air hoses attacted and I would scrape away but  always leaving some residue and keaps of floating particles.. These woul;d find a way out of the building because air monitors 100 metres away usually went off in the afternoons. I once saw them drifting off like snowflakes into a crowded HS playground below me.

 Sure asbestos is dangerous but removing it makes it much more so. And the union rejected sprays that turned it into safe solids. No money in that I guess.