Activities undertaken to inform SA & NSW residents of LASA services

LASA re-contacted the National Poisons Information Centre in Sydney to remind them that callers from anywhere in Australia who inquire about lead poisoning could be referred to the Lead Advisory Service Australia. LASA was informed for the first time that advising the National Poisons Information Centre did not preclude the need to advise Poisons Information Centres servicing each state. Thus the Poisons Information Centre in Western Australia and the ACT which together mostly handle the calls from South Australia, was contacted for the first time by LASA and now refer Western Australian, ACT and South Australian callers to LASA. More NSW residents have reported referral from NSW Poisons Information Centre this year than previously too, following the reminder call.

LASA was listed in the hard copy of the Adelaide White Pages this year for the first time and in the Sydney White and Yellow pages as usual, although anyone with web access has been able to find the White Pages and Yellow Pages on-line LASA entries for some years.

Every painter in South Australia with training in the management of lead paint was contacted by phone by LASA and advised that they are welcome to advise their clients to check out www.lead.org.au or phone LASA for information and advice on lead paint management.

LASA is constantly approached by journalists and writers for information and in return we request a link to our website which often results in calls (email or phone) to LASA or a mention of the LASA. The following ways of finding out about LASA were reported by our callers for the first time this year:

1. "New lead danger - slag used as blast material" story by Linda Morris in Newcastle Herald
2. Lead Alert pamphlet eg available from Sydney Building Information Centre.
3. "Going Organic" book by Chris Abbey
4. Workers Health Centre website www.workershealth.com.au/facts057.html link to www.lead.org.au
5. "Removing lead paint" by Mike Jackson, DIY, Daily Telegraph Home magazine
6. Australian Home Source magazine article about ceiling dust with LASA ph no.
7. "What to do if you have too much lead in your tank water" factsheet by Dr Neville Gibson
8. "Beware the Lead in Leadlighting"" by Dr Marc Grunseit
9. ANU Biological Sciences shooting range submission - citation of O'Brien/Parkinson Council Lead Project (CLP) factsheet "Outdoor Shooting Ranges and Land Contamination - Considerations for Councils"
10. Rhodes Peninsula lead sediment remediation article in Inner Western Suburbs Courier, Sydney
11. E O'Brien's nomination for United Nations Assoc of Australia (UNAA) World Environment Day (WED) Award article in Inner Western Suburbs Courier, Sydney
12. "Lead, Ageing and Death" factsheet by Alycia Bailey
13. "Visionary led the way" article re: Elizabeth O'Brien's award in Inner West Weekly, Sydney.