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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 |
Asbestos: A tiny
but lethal fiber
http://www.hamptonroads.com/pilotonline/special/asbestos/primer.html
Asbestos Information
from the Australian Lung Foundation
http://www.lungnet.org.au/Fact%20Sheets/asbestos-related-health.html
Asbestos Fact
Sheet from Monash University
http://www.adm.monash.edu/ohse/documents/informat/In10.htm
Asbestos Fact
Sheet from U.S. Center for Disease Control
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/tfacts61.pdf
Mesothelioma Resource
Directory
http://www.mesotheliomalegalreview.com
Extensive International (but mainly American)list of asbestos
related information and links
| 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.
Shipbuilding's
Deadly Legacy
http://www.hamptonroads.com/pilotonline/special/asbestos/
United States: For nearly 40 years, the asbestos industry and
the government kept a lethal secret from shipyard workers: Exposure to asbestos
could kill them. It has claimed thousands of lives in Hampton Roads. And it
will take 30 more years for the epidemic to run its course.
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/vol1no1july2001.htm
The Health of Victorians: The Chief Health Officer's Bulletin
Volume 1 No. 1; 10-12 (July 2001).
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.
| Asbestos Exposure in Gippsland/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 |
Victorian Govt.
Environmental Health - Asbestos
http://www.health.vic.gov.au/environment/air/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
Victorian Workcover
Authority - Asbestos Bulletins
http://www.workcover.vic.gov.au/vwa/home.nsf/pages/so_asbestos_bulletins
A series of information bulletins that provides guidance on specific
requirements of the Occupational Health and Safety (Asbestos) Regulations 2003.
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 |
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.
Queensland Asbestos
Related Disease Support Society
http://www.asbestos-disease.com.au
ASBESTOS VICTIMS
ASSOCIATION SOUH AUSTRALIA INC.
www.avasa.asn.au
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