This week the DfE reopened its ‘Asbestos Management Assurance Process’, an exercise which asks school employers to declare whether they are compliant with their legal duty to manage asbestos in their schools...
A union boss has called for answers after asbestos was discovered at an Aberdeen school just days before pupils return after the summer holidays...
There have been more than 50 asbestos exposure incidents in academies, according to new figures obtained by education unions which are of a “shocking disparity” in the way multi-academy trusts (MATs) manage the risk...
The first national conference addressing the issue of how to protect children and staff from the dangers of asbestos in schools and colleges is being held on 4 July 2017...
Committee warns of 'urgent need for action' to protect pupils, staff and teachers from fatal diseases caused by asbestos, according to JUAC...
Some maintenance staff at a leading cancer hospital were “unknowingly exposed” to airborne asbestos levels above safety standards, a report says. The BBC has reported that the Christie hospital in Manchester admitted “historically may not have met the required health and safety standards”. They stressed that there was...
A cross-party group of MPs have called for the eradication of all the remaining asbestos in Britain. A report by the all-party parliamentary group on occupational safety and health calls for regulations requiring the safe, phased and planned removal of all the remaining asbestos in Britain. >> You can...