School Closed over Asbestos

[Zak]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-s...wales-19978369

Massive shame to hear that once again Asbestos has reared it's ugly head, the danger to pupil's health is very serious and now because of that their education prospects are being harmed also. Bit silly that the whole school got closed over a little bit of asbestos though.

We had panels at my old secondary school for years that said "contains asbestos". I only knew because I found the label behind rotting behind a bush. Seems they didn't know for years as they have only just recently been changed

[AlexJRiley]

That's the one In my mind I was thinking "If I owned an evil organisation I would call it..." over and over again but couldn't remember it There are a few walls with it in this house and a builder just told us to either plaster over it or paint over it with thick enough paint, because if it were to be removed it would cost a lot and we wouldn't have a home for a few weeks. It's funny how they continued to use it despite the evidence mounted against it, for the sake of continuity.

Thats bad advice either way from the builder, to plaster over it you'd have to knock off the high points which would get it airborne and painting over it would just hide it away for someone else to disturb. It is costly to get removed but well worth having done.

[-:Undertaker:-]

I know Christopher Booker has done a lot of work into this topic and it is indeed another one of those 'scare stories' whereby a lot of people make a lot of money out of the over the top government laws put in place for this. If I remember correctly, Booker pointed out that white asbestos (the most commonly used) isn't much of a threat (provided it is not smashed up) whereas the blue asbestos is a genuine threat.

I need to buy that book actually, 'Scared to Death' by Christopher Booker.

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