More than a dozen workers exposed to asbestos in Edmonton public schools last year
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Hundreds of pages of documents detailing potential asbestos exposures at Edmonton’s largest school division reveal human error led to more than a dozen worker exposures last year.
Hundreds of pages of documents detailing potential asbestos exposures at Edmonton’s largest school division reveal human error led to more than a dozen worker exposures last year.
CTV News Edmonton obtained the documents through a Freedom of Information (FOIP) request after hearing complaints from former and current workers around hazardous materials safety at the division.
One of the complaints was about a former worker – 50-year-old Jason McCallum – who has since been charged with forging asbestos test reports.
The obtained documents reveal several other exposure cases that occurred after McCallum left the division in 2022.
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