The Lead
Education and Abatement Design Group
Working to eliminate childhood and foetal lead poisoning
by the year 2012 and to protect the environment from lead
ABN 25 819 463 114
Proceeds
from our DIY Home Lead Assessment kit sales go towards the
Global Lead
Advice and Support Service administrative costs.
Annual Report
from the Global Lead Advice & Support Service (GLASS)
to SA Dept of Health & NSW Health & DEC incorporating Quarterly Reports June 2004 to May 2005
Activities
Undertaken to Inform SA & NSW Residents of GLASS Services
GLASS 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 Global
Lead Advice and Support Service. GLASS was listed in the hard copy of the Adelaide White
Pages this year following on from last year’s LASA entry and GLASS was listed 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 LEAD Group entries for some years.
GLASS 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 GLASS or a mention
of the GLASS and/or our website. This year saw a lot more web advertising for volunteers
with responses coming from NSW, South Australia, Victoria and overseas. The following ways
of finding out about GLASS were reported by our callers for the first time this year:
Media Event
Courier Mail article on lead paint, 25/5/05 or 26/5/05
Adult Blood Lead Epidemiology and Surveillance
(ABLES) listserv/egroup run by US CDC
Volunteer Search ad for
Publicist/Networker at
www.jobsearch.gov.au
AGDF website
Volunteer Search ad for The LEAD Group on screen @ CENTRELINK
LeadWorkers e-group at
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/LeadWorkers
Information sheet with Peel Away product information
"Dreaded Lead" article by Dr Ginni Mansberg in
Medical Observer 11 Feb 2005 - GLASS ph no 1800
GoVolunteer ad on Seek.com (Volunteering Australia) for
Access/SQL expert
GoVolunteer ad on Seek.com (Volunteering Australia) for
Network Administrator
THE BRAIN-GUT CONNECTION WORKSHOP - PAN info 20041024
FACTSHEET
"Lead incurs a terrible toll" by Tim Escott for
ILPAW in Inner West Weekly 21/10/04
GoVolunteer ad on Seek.com (Volunteering Australia) for Office
Manager
Lodged Lead Shot and Bullets Support
(LLSBS) Group e-group on
Yahoo website
GoVolunteer ad on Seek.com (Volunteering Australia) for Event
Organiser for ILPAW/ILPAD
GoVolunteer ad on Seek.com (Volunteering Australia) for
Fund-raiser for GLASS
Lead Safety Folder from Leichhardt Council
Dr Ben Balzer's postings on Nut-net egroup for
dietitions/nutritionists run by Nutrition Australia
Australian Dust Removalists Association
(ADRA) listing in
Sydney White Pages
James Hardy asbestos story on 60 Minutes, 7:30pm Sunday Ch 9
GoVolunteer ad on Seek.com (Volunteering Australia) for GLASS
Email data-entry officer etc
SMH article about recall of 150 million items of children's
lead jewellery in USA
Ad for volunteers for the LEAD Group appearing regularly in
the "Inner West Weekly"
LEAD Gp media release: Smoking - a pain in the butt!
"Visionary led the way" article re: EOB in Inner
West Weekly 10/6/04
DA CONDITIONS by Canterbury City Council
LEAD Gp ad on Volunteering Australia website -
www.govolunteer.com.au; www.volunteer.com.au
LEAD Gp media release: Elizabeth O'Brien wins UNAA WED Award
for outstanding service to the environment
Profile on Elizabeth O'Brien at
www.unaavictoria.com.au/events/world_awards_winners.php
LEAD Gp media release: Elizabeth O'Brien recognised for
outstanding service in lead poisoning prevn
"Making Lead-Smart Contractors" on LEAD Group
website
Nothing Without Belinda Choir, Sydney, Australia
Word-of-Mouth
Contact
Heart
Foundation - South Australian Division
Brisbane
City Council said to call Environment Australia (Dept of Envt & Heritage) who said to
call GLASS
Faculty
of Medicine, University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Vic
Poisons Info said to call Environment Australia (Dept of Envt & Heritage) who said to
call
Penrith
City Council
P.L.A.Y.Care
Hunter
Public Health Unit (PHU)
NSW
Poisons Info said to call NSW Pollution Line who said to cal
ACA
(Choice Magazine) said to call NSW EPA (Dept of Envt & Conservation) who said to call
GLASS
A total of 35,899 lead information products
were distributed this FY from which 6,639 were written by the NSW
Government. This is an enormous increase of spreading out material compared to the last FY
when only a total of 5,019 lead publications published by the NSW
Government were distributed. Please see Appendix 13 for
further detailed information.
All incoming
information is questioned as to the credibility of its source and as far as possible, is
investigated by seeking the references cited.
If the reference
cited for a particular piece of information is not web-published, then we proceed to the
next stage of contacting an author of a journal article in order to verify or disprove a
statement made in the press for instance. We have systematically added Australian
lead experts to our Technical Advisory Board over the years and are happy that constant
interchanges to gain their views ensure scientific soundness of advisory materials.
During this
financial year a major improvement to the efficiency of information service provision took
place requiring firstly the conversion of our Access database to an SQL database. This
enabled the following searchable databases to be added to our website to allow people to
easily locate their own library articles from the 1640 online articles now entered in the
GLASS database and answers on topics of interest in the list of 641 Questions from callers
and Answers written by staff over the years:
Searchable Library
Database of Online Articles about Lead –
