A school and its maintenance contractor have been fined after workers disturbed asbestos at the school while installing a new heating system. Peterlee Magistrates’ Court heard that, in February 2019, T.W. Steam & Heating Services Limited had been contracted by Park View Academy, to install a new heating system...
A Freedom of Information (FoI) request by BBC Wales shows more than 900 schools are known to contain asbestos...
As we head into the summer holidays, how confident are you about the presence and condition of any asbestos in your school, university, college or other education premises? Despite asbestos use being outlawed at the turn of this century, it is still prevalent in UK schools, with as many...
Chris Willis, who is battling terminal cancer, believes it was caused by asbestos in his old Kenton school, Aged 29, he received the terrible news that he had mesothelioma ...
New data from the HSE shows mesothelioma has caused the deaths of 154 people in Cornwall between 2013 and 2017...
New figures reveal that asbestos is found in nearly half of local authority run primary schools, putting children at increased risk of developing cancer...
46 of 53 schools are understood to have the material inside their educational buildings ...
Council chiefs to shell out more than £20,000 on training staff after breaching health and safety law in their handling of an asbestos discovery at a school...