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Asbestos Related Links
These links are to information
publicly and freely available on the World Wide Web.
Although they are provided for your interest, GARDS Inc. does not necessarily
endorse and
cannot take responsibility for information and opinions contained in these
external websites.
If you know of an asbestos related website that would be of interest to others,
please let us know by emailing webadmin@gards.org
| About Asbestos |
Better Health Channel - Asbestos and your health - Information and links
http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/LFourPagesMoreInfo/Asbestos_and_your_health
Asbestosis, What is it? (includes a 3D animation of lung function)
http://www.virtualmedicalcentre.com/diseases.asp?did=27
Asbestos Information
from the Australian Lung Foundation
http://www.lungfoundation.com.au/content/view/67/73/
Cancer Council of Victoria - Mesothelioma Information
http://www.cancervic.org.au/downloads/CISS_factsheets/AL608_Mesothelioma.pdf
Asbestos OHS Fact
Sheet from Monash University
http://www.adm.monash.edu.au/ohse/assets/docs/information-sheets/asbestos.pdf
Asbestos Fact
Sheet from U.S. Center for Disease Control
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/tfacts61.pdf
| History of Asbestos Exposure |
Medical History
http://www.mesothelioma.com/medhistory.htm
An American summary of the History of Asbestos Disease as reported
in world medical literature. This list of events reflects findings of a medical
nature.
LOOPHOLE FOR ASBESTOS
DEFENDANTS?
http://www.ibas.btinternet.co.uk/Frames/f_lka_loophole_asb_def.htm
Just when you thought you had seen it all, asbestos defendants
come up with a new scheme for off-loading asbestos liabilities. Article mentions
FMP Group (Australia) Pty. Ltd. (formerly Bendix Mintex Pty. Ltd.).
| Asbestos Exposure Research |
Mesothelioma
as a marker for asbestos-related disease in Victoria
http://www.health.vic.gov.au/archive/archive2004/chobulletin/downloads/vol1no1july2001/mesothelioma.pdf
The Health of Victorians: The Chief Health Officer's Bulletin
Volume 1 No. 1; 10-12 (July 2001).
| Asbestos Exposure in Gippsland/Latrobe Valley |
A Very Public Death - dying of mesothelioma and asbestos related lung cancer in the Latrobe Valley
http://www.rrh.org.au/articles/subviewnew.asp?ArticleID=1183
A descriptive exploratory case study undertaken to highlight the needs of people dying of mesothelioma and their families in the Latrobe Valley.
'Time Bomb for
6000'
http://www.btinternet.com/~ibas/aus_asb_time_bomb.htm
From the International Ban Asbestos Secretariat website, an article
detailing the long fight between the Victorian State government and asbestos
sufferers in Gippsland.
Power Without
Glory
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/s251859.htm
ABC's Four Corners tells the stories of the men and their families
who lived and worked routinely with asbestos, knowing little or nothing of its
dangers, in Victoria's La Trobe Valley power industry.
Continuing
government cover-up of asbestos health disaster in Australia
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/mar2001/asb-m20.shtml
From 1924, when the first State Electricity Commission (SEC)
power station opened, thousands of tonnes of asbestos were used for insulation.
No protection was afforded the workers until the late 1970s. Even during the
last few years, the close-knit community has been subjected to clouds of dust
as old power stations have been dismantled.
Respiratory physician
calls for mass screening of asbestos victims
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/mar2001/int-m20.shtml
The World Socialist Web Site interviewed Dr Tony Sasse,
a respiratory physician working in the town of Traralgon in Australia's Latrobe
Valley, where diseases associated with asbestos contamination in the Valley's
power stations have reached epidemic proportions.
| Working with Asbestos |
Worksafe Victoria - Working with Asbestos
http://www.worksafe.vic.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/wsinternet/WorkSafe/Home/Forms+and+Publications/Forms+and+Publications+Results?category=Asbestos
Iinformation about asbestos, your legal requirements and how to comply with workplace laws regarding asbestos.
Victorian Govt.
Environmental Health - Asbestos
http://www.health.vic.gov.au/environment/home/asbestos.htm
Asbestos roles & responsibilities for government, Guidelines
for local government on asbestos, Asbestos in the home, Cleaning up after a
bushfire and other asbestos issues
ACT Govt. Asbestos
Website
http://www.asbestos.act.gov.au/default.htm
Useful site with downloadable booklets on asbestos for homeownwers/renovators
etc.
VTHC recognised
Victorian Asbestos Removalists
http://www.ohsrep.org.au
ASBESTOS REMOVAL:
A MAJOR HEALTH HAZARD FOR WORKERS (NSW)
http://www.workershealth.com.au/facts001.html
| Asbestos Support and Action Organisations |
Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia (ADFA)
http://www.adfa.org.au
Queensland Asbestos
Related Disease Support Society
http://www.asbestos-disease.com.au
ASBESTOS VICTIMS
ASSOCIATION SOUH AUSTRALIA INC.
www.avasa.asn.au
The International
Ban Asbestos Secretariat (IBAS)
http://www.ibas.btinternet.co.uk/
The International Ban Asbestos Secretariat (IBAS) is a newly
formed, independent body which is dedicated to the eradication world-wide of
the continuing use of asbestos and the minimisation of dangers from asbestos
products already within society.
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