"A number of people have predicted this would happen, a number of experts, and it is now happening, we're seeing the third wave, so-called, of people who are presenting with asbestos-related cancers," chairman of the Asbestos Safety and Eradication Agency Geoff Fary told 891 ABC Adelaide.

"The first wave were those people who worked in the mining and the processing of the substance, the second wave were those people whose jobs put them in regular contact with asbestos, be they electrician or linesman or people who worked changing wheels or brakes of cars.

"But we're now finding the third wave [who] have had no known occupational exposure to airborne asbestos."

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