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Join the dedicated team at The LEAD Group in Summer Hill, Sydney, or work from your own home or office if you would like to help eliminate lead poisoning and protect the environment from lead Here is The LEAD Group's volunteer jobs list:

1. Data-entry and information distribution officer to use our fabulous custom-built Access database to enter caller's details and generate cover letters for send-outs of the information we have uniquely matched to their needs during their phone call with the Lead Advisory Service Australia. The information officer is also required to manage the supply of fact sheets and booklets that we distribute and to do filing of our client records and library items.
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2. Publicist / journalist to help with writing and distribution of a weekly media release.

3. Fund-raiser / Grant application-writer to obtain funds for:

a) the essential Lead Advisory Service Australia (LASA) - a telephone and email information and referral service provided free to the community, covering all aspects of managing and preventing lead poisoning and lead contamination in Australia;

b) the newly created Global Lead Advice and Support Service (GLASS) - an email information and referral service provided free to the community, covering all aspects of managing and preventing lead poisoning and lead contamination in the world. GLASS has so far responded to emails from 44 countries;

c) publication and distribution of The LEAD Group's newsletter - "LEAD Action News", a 4-32 page approximately quarterly publication on all news related to lead which has been published since February 1993;

d) promotion of International Lead Poisoning Awareness Week (Monday 20th to Sunday 26th October 2003);

e) projects which develop lead education materials for local councils in states outside of NSW along the same lines as the Tool Kit developed by The LEAD Group for the NSW Council LEAD Project. See www.lead.org.au/clp/clp.html

4. Newsletter compiler/editor/journalist to put together our quarterly publication "LEAD Action News" (see www.lead.org.au/nl.html) which is now web-published only, unless funding is able to be obtained to print and disseminate it.

5. Publicist to promote International Lead Poisoning Awareness Week (Monday 20th to Sunday 26th October 2003).

6. Actuary to research the average age of death and typical causes of death of those workers who have been exposed to lead but for whom there are typically not even blood lead monitoring programs in place eg radiator repairers, painters, indoor shooting range cleaners, underground car park and road toll-house staff, muffler repairers, smash repairers, electronics manufacture and repair industry workers, lead lighters, demolition contractors, etc.

7. Researcher/factsheet writer/journalist for a range of topics eg … "Nutrition for lead poisoned people", … "Nutrition to prevent lead poisoning", … "Permaculture methods to deal with lead contaminated soil", … "What you need to know about lead before buying an old house", … "Lead poisoning surveillance in Australia", … "What to do when your neighbour is carrying out unsafe renovation or demolition", … "What to do if your child is lead poisoned", … "What to do if you have a blood lead level above 15 µg/dL", … "The hazards of heavy metals for scrap metal recyclers", … "Alternatives to leaded consumer products", … "What lawyers need to know about lead", … "The history of lead litigation in Australia", … "Why Australia needs a national lead strategy now that leaded petrol is banned", … "Experiences with chelation treatment for lead poisoning in Australia", … "The essential role of the Lead Advisory Service Australia", … "Australian government policy and actual responses to the problem of lead", … "Australia's income from lead exports", … "If lead is so toxic and so "recyclable" - why is it still mined and used?", … "You alone are responsible for the quality of your indoor air and your tank water", … "Legislation to control or eliminate lead: Australia compared", … "The lead in lead batteries doesn't cause any harm. Yeah right!", … "The legacy of growing up in a lead mining town", … "The need for Lead Advisory Services in countries importing lead from Australia", … "Fireworks - I love the colours but are all those heavy metals safe?", … "Why do governments not pay wages for Lead Advisory Service staff when governments make so much money out of lead?" etc.

8. Networkers / educators to inspire unions, educational bodies, hobbyists (such as shooters, ceramicists, lead lighters etc), health care professionals' organisations, rural groups who are dependent on rainwater which is prone to lead contamination, do-it-yourself renovators, landlords and the media, etc to be pro-active in disseminating information about lead poisoning/contamination prevention and management.

9. Legislation reformist to propose and campaign for a variety of measures such as warning labels about lead hazards on heatguns and sanders, the need for information on lead hazards in pre-1970 buildings to be made available to tenants and home-buyers before they take up residence, cradle to grave management of leaded consumer products such as lead acid batteries, industrial paints, marine paints, auto paints, ammunition, fishing sinkers, flashing, leadlight, the need for people who hire a paint contractor to be sure that the painter can do a lead-safe job, etc.

10. Passionate person who wants to eliminate lead poisoning and has their own ideas on what to do but needs a base to work from.

Contact:

Elizabeth O'Brien, National Coordinator

Phone: (02) 9716 0014,  Email: Contact Us

Last Updated 11 May 2010
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