Santomera City Council yesterday received the results of the analyzes conducted by the Laboratory of Industrial Hygiene to the last samples taken inside the pavilion A school Our Lady of the Rosary.
Despite the cleanup carried out last week, two of the seven samples reflect rates concentration of asbestos in excess, for three and four thousandths, the accepted limit (0.01 fibers per cubic centimeter).
Once the results are known, it is this morning has carried out a second cleaning in the colon where they were detected positive.
Though not mandatory, from the Department of Works and Services it has also ordered the contractor to intervene on a third point where an identical value to the maximum was recorded.
In this respect, Councilman Joaquin Rubio stressed once again that "from the government team are acting with the utmost caution to always ensure maximum safety".
After this second cleaning no later morning were new samples taken in the affected areas for analysis by the Laboratory of Industrial Hygiene.
If jobs have been effective, the deadlines are met and examinations definitively rule out the presence of potentially dangerous concentrations of asbestos, next week reopen its doors Hall A. In this way, the school Our Lady of the Rosary, back completely to normal.
No danger
Although it had the approval of all experts, the partial reopening of the school generated concern among some families, especially since they were tested to certify that the interior of the pavilions B and C, occupied by students, free of asbestos .
Given that concern, and although both municipal technicians and the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health felt it was not necessary, the government team charged that these areas were also analyzed.
The results, reported by the Industrial Hygiene Laboratory last Friday, confirm the absence of asbestos in both buildings.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Santomera