Asbestos In Schools Crisis

24/02/2010 : go back

ATaC's recently launched new guide to 'Asbestos Management In Schools' has exposed the current risk from asbestos exposure prevalent in many British Schools and sparked off huge interest in the media,

The BBC published a news article on their website that quoted, "Some British schools are not meeting a legal duty to protect their pupils from potentially deadly asbestos, a snapshot survey of 16 schools suggests. The report by the Asbestos Training and Consultancy Association said none of the 16 schools was meeting health and safety rules on managing the substance."

To read the full article, click the following link, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8524551.stm

See the links below for just some of the other recent news articles:-