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Achievements & Highlights
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Over 60 volunteers
provided GLASS as a service to the public in this 6 month period
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GLASS handled & data-entered 3,685 calls (emails & phone calls) in the 6 months from May
‘06 to Nov ‘06 and 5607
calls for the 11 months of the calendar year to date in 2006
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GLASS calls to date in 2006 came from: NSW
2344 calls
(42% of total), Overseas 1938
(35%), Vic 408
(7%), ACT 324 (6%), Qld 295
(5%), WA 162 (3%), SA 95
(2%), Tas 28 calls &
NT 13 calls
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GLASS distributed to date in 2006, 985 copies of information products published by the Department of
Environment and Heritage (DEH) for a total of 20,911 since 1998
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Subjects most often discussed in calls in this period were: lead
poisoning 2630
calls (24%), 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?”, - 1772
calls in 2006 year-to-date (16% of
total call subjects), consumer products 1171
(11%), service referral 1029 (9%), other 989 (9%),
lead workers 738 (6%), paint 662
(6%), environmental testing/sampling 550 (5%), renovation 386 (4%).
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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 534 information products to the GLASS
library database since 1st July 2006, making a total of 8,917 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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There were 94,093
page
hits from 139 countries in the 5 months between July 01, 2006 and Nov
30, 2006 on www.lead.org.au
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