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Aims to eliminate lead poisoning, protect the environment from lead
and to strengthen networks of stakeholders to solve lead problems

The LEAD Group Inc
The Lead Education and Abatement Design Group
Working to eliminate childhood lead poisoning in Australia
by the year 2012 and to protect the environment from lead.
ABN 25 819 463 114

Annual Report from LASA to SA Dept of Human Services
& NSW Govt incorporating Quarterly Reports

June 2003 to May 2004

     

Improvements to on-line information at www.lead.org.au

There were over 97,700 page-views of the massive amount of information on our website this year (see Annex 1, 2 and 3). There are now 1,381 files on the website. Fifty-one point six percent of our web-page viewers (50,413 page-views) were from Australia and the remaining 48.4% were from 143 other countries.

Our webmaster David Ratcliffe made numerous improvements to the site (see Annex 4) including updating entries in 6 tables from our referrals database so that web-users can search out their own lead-trained painters, lead assessors, ceiling dust removalists, laboratories, lead spot test kit retailers, etc.

New links on www.lead.org.au this year include to:

  1. Abotex Lead Inspector website www.leadinspector.com
  2. Sth Australian Environment Protection Authority website www.epa.sa.gov.au
  3. Keith Buxton's new Broken Hill website www.users.bigpond.net.au/kbyits

 \In preparation for additional publication of database information on the website we have purchased a Microsoft SQL / ISA (Internet Security Acceleration) server computer at a cost of $3875.

 Improvements to on-line information in general

LASA successfully requested the following improvements to other websites:

  1. links to www.lead.org.au and www.firstlinegroup.com on www.judsonlaketrumpeterswans.ca/cgi-bin/guestbook.cgi
  2. link to www.lead.org.au on www.lead-poisoning-news.com/html/resources.html
  3. link to www.lead.org.au on Environmental Health Network of California website users.lmi.net/~wilworks/ehnlinx/l.htm
  4. link to www.lead.org.au on Environmental Health Watch Ohio website www.ehw.org/Links/LINK_Child_Lead_Poison1.htm
  5. link to www.lead.org.au on Queensland Conservation Council website www.qccqld.org.au/smogbusters/links.htm
  6. link to www.lead.org.au on Smogbusters www.waytoschoolkit.infoxchange.net.au/links.html
  7. link to www.lead.org.au on Global Lead Network www.globalleadnet.org/resources/links/
  8. link to www.lead.org.au on Public Health Oceania - Australia website www.ldb.org/vl/geo/oceania/6aus.htm
  9. link to www.lead.org.au on Active Sydney website www.active.org.au/sydney/groups/
  10. link to www.lead.org.au on Acronyms for global information and data resources in health, medical, and veterinary sciences website www.geocities.com/~mlshams/acronym/acrL.htm
  11. listing in directory.google.com/Top/Science/Environment/
    Environmental_Health/Toxic_Substances/Lead
  12. link to www.lead.org.au on Association of Societies for Occupational Safety and Health (ASOSH) website www.asosh.org/WorldLinks/TopicSpecific/chemicals.htm
  13. link to www.lead.org.au on National Toxics Network website www.oztoxics.org/ntn
  14. link to www.lead.org.au on Australian Dust Removalists Assocn website www.adra.com.au
  15. link to www.lead.org.au on University of Illinois Extension Master Gardener Course website www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/mglinks/envconcerns.html
  16. link to www.lead.org.au on DMOZ Open Directory website dmoz.org/Science/Environment/ Environmental_Health/Toxic_Substances/Lead/
  17. link to www.lead.org.au on search.freefind.com/find. html?id=5553033&w=0&p=0

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Last Updated 28 August 2008
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