Posts by Vicki Hamilton
Asbestos Aware Chisholm TAFE Berwick Plumbers 2018
19.9.2018-ACV/GARDS org travelled to Chisholm TAFE Berwick campus to talk to 30+ apprentice plumbers – Great questions & interaction with a very bright group who talked about places that they now know they were exposed to asbestos – sad to hear about these instances – but the apprentices will now be armed with information into…
Read More4th Asbestos Awareness session to Chisholm TAFE Frankston
14/09/2018 the ACV/GARDS org traveled to Chisholm TAFE Frankston campus to deliver our 4th session of asbestos awareness to another great group of apprentice plumbers. We had some good conversations today and the apprentices shared lots of information around what they had seen & experienced in places they had worked. Really switched on apprentices who…
Read MoreChisholm TAFE Berwick Apprentice Plumbers Asbestos Aware 2018
Today the 11th September the ACV/GARDS girls traveled to Chisholm TAFE Berwick to deliver the first of 4 asbestos awareness sessions to apprentice plumbers. We had 40+ very engaged apprentices who asked many and varied questions. It was a real privilege to have the chance to chat with these apprentices and to try and make…
Read MoreChisholm TAFE Frankston Plumbers Asbestos Aware
7/9/2018 traveled to Chisholm TAFE Frankston today to deliver 3rd asbestos awareness session to 33 fantastic apprentice plumbers. The ACV/GARDS girls will be back again for the next 5 weeks talking to many more apprentice plumbers – they had great questions & shared some very interesting conversations with us about their experiences with asbestos in…
Read MoreNo Heritage Listing for Hazelwood Power Station
#Asbestos Hazelwood Power Station will not be included on the Victorian Heritage Register. Heritage Victoria found it did not meet the criteria required for recognition of cultural heritage significance at a State level. It found Hazelwood Power Station is not associated with any key phases in the development of the Latrobe Valley as a power…
Read MoreChisholm TAFE Frankston Apprentice Plumbers
31/8/2018 The ACV/GARDS girls traveled to Frankston TAFE Chisholm and delivered 2nd asbestos awareness session to a great bunch of apprentice plumbers. The ACV/GARDS girls will be back again for the next 6 weeks talking to a whole lot more apprentice plumbers – great questions and conversation. It was a privilege and honour to talk…
Read MoreChisholm TAFE Frankston Campus Apprentice Plumbers 2018
Friday 24th August saw Vicki and Dorothy travel to the Chisholm TAFE at Frankston to deliver an asbestos awareness session to a great bunch of apprentice plumbers. This is the first session of 7 others over the next 7 weeks – hopefully seeing about 120 apprentice plumbers in that time. The session was engaging with…
Read MoreWhen the dust settles: Home renovators, the next wave of asbestos-related deaths on Background Briefing
RN radio Pod Cast – 15th July – Asbestos continues to kill more people than car accidents every year in Australia. Once seen as a wondrous building material it remains in millions of homes in neighbourhoods around the country. Reporter Mario Christodoulou investigates Australia. Please go to this link to listen to a very good…
Read MoreJohnson & Johnson Order to Pay $6.32b in Talc Cancer Case
A St Louis jury has awarded more than $6 billion ($US4.7 billion) in total damages to 22 women and their families after they claimed asbestos in Johnson & Johnson talcum powder contributed to their ovarian cancer, in the first case against the company that focused on asbestos in the powder. The jury announced the $5.6…
Read MoreFederation Training Newborough Asbestos Aware 2018
Recently ACV/GARDS crew did an asbestos awareness session to 160 apprentices at Federation Training Newborough – Boiler makers, mechanics, civil engineering, painting & decorating, carpentry etc. Great session – good questions from the apprentices and their trade teachers – the apprentices left the room with a better understanding of where asbestos can be found in…
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