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Do–It–Yourself Lead Safe Test Kits The LEAD Group DIY Lead Safe Test Kits are a cheap effective way to measure lead hazards in your home. The Kits consist of instructions and sample collection materials for testing vacuum cleaner and ceiling dust, soil and horizontal surfaces.   PDF version of this file

LOCAL HEROES: Australian crusades from the environmental frontline, buy this book to find out what you can do about lead, at the discounted price of only $10.00

Wakaflex   New light weight and easy to fit alternative to lead, zinc and Copper flashing. Wakaflex can be used generally for all abutments at walls, chimneys, rising parts of structures such as dormers, fire walls and other abutments in the roof area. It can be used as a top flashing for conservatories and profiled sheeting. available from COMBINED ROOFING SOLUTIONS Pty Ltd.

Nitto Denko now lead free pdf. Introducing the world’s first lead free plastic electrical and duct tape. Which means it’s safer to use and more environmentally friendly than any other tape available. It also retains all the qualities Nitto tape is famous for - excellent workability, superior cold and heat resistance and strong adhesion properties. For details on where to purchase, see www.nitto.com/global/global01.html

CTI Consultants Pty Ltd.pdf  Materials and Environmental Investigations. Areas of expertise include protective coatings, lead paint management, corrosion and metallurgy, concrete condition assessment and repair, waterproofing, material selection and cathodic protection. CTI has also developed expertise in environmental and occupational health. CTI can provide occupational risk assessment, exposure monitoring, hygiene recommendations, inductions and training for lead abatement, paint application and many aspects of general construction and maintenance.
TT Al Flashing.pdf Aluminium flashing for use in building situations with aluminium or ZINCALUME® roofing sections. Available from Thomas Thoms Pty Ltd. 350 KB
TT BituAl Flashing.pdf Bitu-al, aluminium core and bitumen coated is used for damp-proof coursing flashing and ant cappings in all types of building situations. Available from Thomas Thoms Pty Ltd. 616 KB
TT Zinc Flashing.pdf Thoms "Softa-Flash"™ pure zinc flashing is designed for flashing use only and is compatible with ZINCALUME® and COLORBOND® coated steel roofing and walling. Available from Thomas Thoms Pty Ltd. 361 KB
Hazard Awareness .doc Order form for video tapes on safe handling of hazardous materials from FutureMedia Pty Ltd. 56 KB
Clean-All Soap Heavy Metals hand & body soap. Removes heavy metal residue and reduces the risk of toxic contamination.
Brackaflash AT LAST - An innovative flashing system for stepped and horizontal brickwork has been winning markets in Australia and overseas
AcryLead Consolidated Alloys has developed an environmentally friendly lead sheet flashing with a thermo baked acrylic coating called Acrylead.
Canadian Wildlife Service Environment Canada Where to find lead-free alternatives - Manufacturers of lead-free fishing tackle contains a list of suppliers of lead free tackle in Canada, USA, UK,  Sweden & China. There are a wide variety of non-toxic alternatives to lead fishing sinkers and jigs, including bismuth, clay, steel, tin, glass, tungsten beads and putty. Ask your local fishing supply retailer to stock these lead-free alternatives.
Aquarium Monsters manufacture and import a range of 100% Lead Free Fishing Sinkers and Tackle - safe for you and the environment.   Aquarium Monsters is an Australian company dedicated to sustainable improvements in the recreational fishing industry and our delicate aquatic ecosystems. Email_Address
Longcaster Dissolvable Sinkers  Environmentally friendly fishing sinkers made out of dry food waste ensures no pollution of waterways, rivers, oceans and no danger to birds and river inhabitants. Email Address
Firstline Environmental Solutions Inc remediation of soils contaminated with heavy metals. removal/recycling of lead and copper contaminants & shell casings from shooting ranges #203 - 20189 56 Ave, Langley, British Columbia, Canada V3A 3Y6  Tel: (604) 530-4122 Fax: (604) 530-6023  Email_Address
  Leadex Australia Pty Ltd The "Green Machine", by Leadex, extracts approximately 95 percent of lead shot from the ground. It is collected in 44 gallon drums weighing 1.25 tonnes each, and recycled "for such purposes as bullets, batteries, boat keels, ballast and even straight back to new shot gun cartridges." Contact Errol McClelland phone: 03 5439 5896, mobile: 0429 396 939 Leadex Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 999 Strathfieldsaye VIC 3551 Email Address
Enviro Check.doc 29 KB. Enviro Check is a small independent chemical testing service, operating from a well-equipped laboratory at Narellan in Sydney’s South West. Enviro Check was established in 1997 as an environmental and chemical analysis, contract consulting lab service, specialising in lead assessing and analysis for domestic, commercial and industrial premises.
Australian Standard 4361.2 Guide To Lead Paint Management Preventing Lead Poisoning in Australia by Michelle CALVERT, Education Officer of The Lead Advisory Service Australia
Peel Away Paint Removal System is available from specialist paint stores nationally with State agents in South Australia, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia and New South Wales. See the Interactive distribution map for contact details of suppliers.
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Let’s Clean & Heim Surface Technologies Specialist in captive water blasting with vacuum extraction. hire, lease or contracting of water rinsing equipment and supplier of Heritage No. 1 Natural paint removal poultice for removal of lead paint.
Elite Maintenance Service Or phone 131 580 from anywhere in Australia and your call is automatically directed to your closest Elite Maintenance Service Franchise. Elite Maintenance Service is the only carpet cleaning company we know of in Australia which uses the chelating agent EDTA in the formula.
www.iplex.com.au  "Using Iplex Pipelines PVC products that comply with AS/NZS 4020 eliminates the risk that the extraction of lead from the pipe system could contribute to a high lead content in rain water collected for drinking purposes."
Beeswax Creations Handcrafted candles made with 100% beeswax from Western Australia (for a pure, chemical and pesticide free experience). Our candles are unscented. Beeswax candles emit a natural honey aroma without the use of any fragrance. Email_Address
Knit Happens Pure beeswax candles, nothing added.  Non lead wick.  Unscented and smoke free. Online store to purchase 100% pure beeswax candles. Email_Address
Northern Light candles are free from paraffin, palm oil, soy oil or any other hazardous ingredient. Our safe, all natural ingredients include the finest, hand picked Australian beeswax, cotton wick, and translucent porcelain. The oil, bees wax and production facilities are all food grade. There is no harm to bee, environment or person in the making of our lights." [Ref:  accessed 15/6/07] According to the Managing Director, Northern Light candles have never contained lead wicks or any other metal wicks and their candles are never painted - so as to avoid the possibility of heavy metals in the artists paints that other candle makers carelessly apply.  Email Address 
Cafe Bono Cafe Bono in Cammeray, Sydney retails pure beeswax candles, with lead-free cotton wicks.  Email Address
Australian distributor of LL's Magnetic Clay Baths Detoxifying the body of heavy metals and chemicals through a natural clay bath. Detoxifying the body of heavy metals and chemicals like Mercury, Lead, Arsenic, Aluminium and Nicotine in your own bath at home. Email_Address
The Peasant's Feast is Sydney's only organic dinner restaurant and anecdotal evidence collected over 14 years by the Global Lead Advice & Support Service suggests that people who eat only organic food tend to have lower blood lead levels.
Heritage Pressure Cleaning Specialists in lead paint removal, services, products and examples, paint removal, high pressure cleaning. Email_Address
Festool - CLEANTEC® (CT)  mobile dust extractor range with HEPA filter, the first mobile dust extractors sold in Australia that are supplied with HEPA filter as standard,  have a dust separation efficiency of more than 99.95% and correspond to HEPA class H13. Email_Address
Derma Shield Skin Protectant Australia Australian and World Suppliers of Skin Protection. Products that provide protection of the skin against the most harmful skin irritants and skin abusers, eg : most toxic chemicals. Email_Address
Green Lead^TM is the use of best practice to all aspects of mining, transport, manufacture, use and reuse of Lead in order to minimise people and planet exposure to Lead.
Allen's Industrial Products supplier of safety and cleaning products including respirators and industrial and commercial vacuums and cleaning machinery.
Battery Recycling The company provides comprehensive Turnkey Solutions for Lead Acid Battery Recycling with environment friendly technology.
Lead Battery Recycling Lead Battery Recycling world is an exclusive Business Portal for Lead Manufacturing and Lead User Industries.
Stream Systems High Tech Solutions for Game Officers and Law Enforcement including the HOT*SHOT which can verify if a shotgun shell contains Lead, Steel, Bismuth, Tungsten/Polymer (TP), Tungsten/Matrix (TX), Hevi-Shot.
Toxic Soft Drinks Urges that legislators, state agencies, and school boards should ban benzene, formaldehyde and pesticides in soft drinks sold on school property --  and not permit soft drink labels containing lead paint to be used.
Safer Solutions Website: Safer Solutions provides the information needed to take action to make homes safer and keep families healthy. Whether you are cleaning your home, renovating it or planting your garden, Safer Solutions can help you make the best decisions for a healthy, comfortable home. The brochure called "Detox Your Home" is available online.
Northern Smelters  The main products produced now by Northern Smelters Pty Ltd are tin anodes and tin-based alloys such as lead-free electronics solder and lead-free pewter. They make lead-based alloys for specific industries and offer recycling service for those customers, but are NOT lead smelters and do NOT mine lead. The name "smelters" is due to tin smelting which was a major part of this business when raw material was available.
Amare Safety Supplier of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Follow link to view information on PUREFLO for protection against Lead. Email Address
Aesthetics Industrial Marine Inc specialize in LuminOre composite metals. LuminOre Industrial Zinc Provides Warranty Assured Anticorrosive Asset Protection. Single 0.010thou/inch Zinc Coat on any prepared substrate >30 Year warranty Non-sacrificial Industrial Zinc 100% UV and all weather extreme resistant.  10 year Warranty-Marine Antifouling. Products can encapsulate Lead Based paint. Email_Address
Nevis House  Consultancy and sales agent for  tungsten manufacturers including radiation shielding products, represents manufacturers in Europe that produce tungsten balancing weights and vibration dampeners that substitute lead in high performance cars, in fly wheels, turbines, in aircraft rotor blades and in elevator counterbalances. The tungsten also replaces lead in white goods and in electronics markets and also substitutes Lead in sports equipment like golf clubs. Email_Address
Point of Care Diagnostics (POCD) offers a portable point of care blood lead level analyser - the LeadCare II Analyser - that some industries and/or community programs might find useful. If anyone would like further information they can contact Peter Merrilees - Email_Address
For the past 35 years ESA Biosciences Inc. has been manufacturing analyzers for blood lead analysis. ESA manufacture the LeadCare II portable blood lead analyzer along with the Model 3010B Blood Lead Analyzer. The Model 3010B is a desk top system. The system originally sold for $12,595 new, but ESA (as at May 2008) are in the final stages of developing a replacement desk top system that will sell for about $20,000. Although ESA no longer manufacture the Model 3010B, they do have refurbished units available. Email Bruce Weiner
Conjun Thermosets & Indo-chem  in Chandigarh India, are manufacturing a sealant DRIPSEAL-PJS-43 (PIPE JOINT SEALANT) which is used in India for sealing cast iron pipe joints as a substitute for LEAD as a pipe joint sealant. They have developed this product after extensive R & D. DRIPSEAL-PJS is cold applied, non toxic and environmentally  friendly. Conjun Thermosets & Indo-chem can send technical detail. Email
Occupational Knowledge International works to build capacity in developing countries to identify, monitor, and mitigate environmental and occupational exposures to hazardous materials in order to protect public health and the environment. The organization provides technical assistance through partnerships, training, and environmental audit and certification programs, with a commitment to public health tenets, scientific principles and corporate responsibility.
OK International offers the following programs:
- Plant/Product Certification eg BEST Lead Battery Certification - Technical Assistance / Grantmaking - Environmental Education - Exchange of Technology and Access to Technology - Dissemination of Information
The purpose of the technology exchange program is to facilitate the exchange of environmental technology to countries with developing environmental programs and limited resources. Email_Address

Referral lists from the Lead Advisory Service Australia

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