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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 |
| Leichhardt
General Practice, Inner West of Sydney |
| Environmental
Analysis Laboratory, Southern Cross Uni, NSW |
| Skills,
Training & Resource Service (STARS), Lakemba, NSW |
| Claire
Porter, Journalist, Informed Choice magazine |
| Beethoven
Society Choir of Australia, Sydney |
FEEDBACK
REGISTER REPORT
Please see Appendix 12
for some examples of feedback the organization received from various callers this year.
National
distribution by GLASS of lead publications produced by the NSW Government
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.
Activities Undertaken to
Ensure the Scientific Soundness of Advisory Materials
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.
Activities Undertaken to
Improve the Efficiency of Information Service Provision
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 –
- www.lead.org.au/fs-index.html WHICH LINKS TO
http://202.7.86.234/lead/library.aspx
- Searchable Question
and Answer Database about Lead –
www.lead.org.au/fs-index.html WHICH LINKS TO http://202.7.86.234/lead/qa.aspx
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