global lead advice & support service

global lead advice
    & support service

 

Run by

The LEAD Group Inc
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

Biannual Activity Report from GLASS to DEH December 2005 - May 2006

     

GLASS provides information & referrals on lead poisoning & lead contamination prevention & management, with the goal of eliminating lead poisoning globally & protecting the environment from lead.

Contents

1. Achievements and Highlights

2. Volunteer Personnel

o       GLASS Technical Advisory Board (TAB) and area of lead-related expertise

o       GLASS Committee

o       Public Officer

o       Office Volunteers and Work-from-home Researchers

3. Service Reporting

4. Charts re lead calls handled in Australia.

o       Fig 1: DEH Lead Enquiries 1 December 2005 to 31 May

o       Fig 2: Monthly page ‘hits’ on lead.org.au

o       Fig 3: No. of countries viewing TLG’s website PA.

o       Fig 4: Calls handled by GLASS

o       Fig 5: No. of calls by subject per year

o       Fig 6: Subject as % of total call subjects since 1998

o       Fig 7: NSW, interstate and overseas calls by year

o       Fig 8: Austn. State/territory and overseas calls 2006 ytd

o       Fig 9: Calls by category of caller by year

o       Fig 10: DEH publications distributed by GLASS

            6. Case File: Helping a Doctor help 35,000 Lead-Poisoned People Around the Lead Smelter at La Oroya in Peru - How GLASS Works

 

Report prepared by:

  • Elizabeth O’Brien, Manager, GLASS

  • Web data provided by David Ratcliffe, Webmaster, The LEAD Group

  • Data mined, organised and analysed by Ian Smith, Systems Analyst

  • Edited by Sophie Day, DEH.

  • Revised by Alex Jewson, Administrator, GLASS

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