Asbestos Hazards in Schools

Asbestos Hazards in Schools – one of the focus areas on the Philadelphia Regional Center for Children’s Environmental Health (PRCCEH) website – offers access to translational science asbestos hazard summary reports for individual schools in the School District of Philadelphia using publicly available information collected and reported by school districts as part of their EPA-AHERA assessment and reporting requirements. Translational reports, such as the Thomas K. Finletter School: Asbestos Hazard Report School Asbestos Hazard Report, summarize and explain asbestos risk for school building stakeholders to increase understanding and knowledge.  This type of summary report can be used as a model by school district representatives and stakeholder organizations to better define, explain and put into context the asbestos risk presented in the school building and room environment. 

The site also offers a recorded webinar, “Asbestos in Schools: Evaluating Health Risks,” in which Dr. Marilyn Howarth and Jerry Roseman, MSIH explain the health risks of asbestos materials in schools, the purpose of PRCCEH’s asbestos hazard reports, the process in developing reports, and how the reports and asbestos resources can be used.