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1. Achievements & Highlights
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Over
80 volunteers provided GLASS as a
service to the public in this 6 month period
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GLASS
handled & data-entered 2,462
calls (emails & phone calls)
in the 6 months from Dec ’05 to May ’06 and 2,099 calls for the nearly 6 months of the calendar year to date in
2006
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GLASS
calls to date in 2006 came from: NSW 998
calls (48% of total), Overseas 583 (28%),
Vic 185 (9%), ACT 122 (6%), Qld 109 (5%), WA 61 (3%), SA 32 (2%), Tas 7 calls
& NT 2 calls
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GLASS
distributed to date in 2006, 929
copies of information products published by the Department of Environment and
Heritage (DEH) for a total of 20,853 since
1998
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Subjects
most often discussed in calls in this period were: policy (eg answering the questions “when was lead paint
banned?” or “when will lead petrol be phased out globally?” or “why don’t
governments force hardware stores to distribute lead booklets?”, - 468 calls in 2006 year-to-date (19% of total call subjects), lead
poisoning 368 calls (15%), consumer
products 271 (11%), service referral
270 (11%), paint 250 (10%), lead workers 182 (7%), environmental
testing/sampling 176 (7%),
renovation 139 (6%) and other 125 (5%)
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This
compares with subjects most often discussed since 1998: lead poisoning (19%),
other (which includes demolition, smelter/mining issues etc) (13%), service
referral (12%), paint (9%) and policy (8%)
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GLASS
volunteers added 253 information products to the GLASS library database since
1st Dec 2005, making a total of 8,383 items in the library and no-one has yet
refuted the claim that this is the largest lead library on the planet
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The
manager has prepared a special Case File about our assistance to one new client
in this period – a Peruvian doctor who is trying to help a smelter community of
35,000 lead poisoned people
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There
were 119,050+ page hits from 154 countries
in the 6 months between Nov 01, 2005 and Apr 30, 2006 on www.lead.org.au but the counter can’t go
above 20,002/month
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