‘Chris Willis was just 29 when doctors told him he probably had only a year to live because he had been exposed to asbestos as a schoolboy. “You don’t expect to go to school, get an education and come out with what I’ve got,” he said. “I don’t think schools realise how much asbestos is still dormant in buildings and how much risk it poses to pupils.”’# #Asbestos#School#UKPoliticshttps://apple.news/AXvmdrGcyQLOeSkK27JSrlA
‘After Gina’s death, Robin Howie, an asbestos consultant and former president of the British Occupational Hygiene Society, conducted an experiment and found that pulling a drawing pin out of asbestos material released about 6,000 fibres. “During her career she must have done that tens of thousands of times,” said Lees.’