Recent news that a retired teacher in North Wales died of asbestos-related mesothelioma has prompted the U.K.’s Association of Teachers and Lecturers to take up the call for the government to remove asbestos from all British schools by the year 2010. See related story. The first step is to require that every school be surveyed for the presence of asbestos. More than 400 teachers’ union members already know they have been exposed to asbestos at work, but without a comprehensive survey, no one knows how many schools contain asbestos and where other teachers and students could be at risk.
For the full story, go to the Daily Post North Wales.
