As schools get older, exposure to asbestos becomes a greater risk. This can affect students, teachers and anyone else working at the school.

Health risk stats

• In the 1980s three teachers died each year due to mesothelioma
• By 2012 this had risen to 22 deaths each year
• Since 2015 around 40 each year from mesothelioma
• Mesothelioma has caused at least 363 deaths since 2001

Students

• Five times more likely to contract the disease than adults aged 30
• It is estimated that for every teacher’s death, nine children will die