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Asbestos In Victoria – Free Webinar 27th Nov – 1pm

November 16, 2020 By Vicki Hamilton

Asbestos is found in 1 in 3 Australian homes. To support National asbestosawareness week, WorkSafe is hostinga free β€˜Asbestos in Victoria’ webinar to raise awareness about the impact
asbestos exposure still has on Victorian lives and the strategies in place to reduce exposure. – ACV/GARDS – Brian Healy will be speaking in this webinar – please support this important message that we are all trying to send the community – Other speakers are Dr Tom John – Peter Mac – Medical Oncologist and researcher into thoracic cancers – Lung and Mesothelioma – Prof Tim Driscoll – Epidemiology and Occupational Medicine – Sydney University – Simone Stevenson – Executive Officer – Victorian Asbestos Eradication Agency – It will be a great session – please register at this link  https://bit.ly/32kE0Hg  πŸ‘πŸ‘

Filed Under: Asbestos, Asbestos Awareness Day, Education, Event, General information

Asbestos Lurks in More Places Than You’d Think – Free Webinar 24th Nov 2020

November 16, 2020 By Vicki Hamilton

We invite you to register for this webinar – it is a joint webinar by the Latrobe Valley Asbestos Task Force – in which Asbestos Council of Victoria/GARDS Inc. are a member – Speakers for this event are: Brian Healy – ACV/GARDS member who contracted mesothelioma, Brett Heriben – Electrician – Latrobe Electrical, Vicki Hamilton OAM – CEO/Secretary Asbestos Council of Victoria/GARDS Inc. – come and join with us and learn about asbestos – Tuesday 24th November – 5pm – 6pm – Register online at http://www.asbestostaskforce.net  πŸ‘

Filed Under: Asbestos, Asbestos Awareness Day, Education, Event, General information

Asbestos & Silica Awareness Virtual Sessions During COVID to TAFES

October 28, 2020 By Vicki Hamilton

Over the past months during COVID restrictions ACV/GARDS has been conducting virtual Asbestos & Silica Awareness sessions to as many TAFE apprentices that we could. We are very proud to say that there are apprentice Carpenters at Chisholm TAFE Frankston and Dandenong that have been a part of these sessions.

We also have been able to have a session before COVID and during COVID to Painting and Decorating apprentices at TAFE Gippsland Newborough campus and The Gordon at Geelong. 

All have been very successful. We thank those trade teachers who managed to be able to gather their apprentices on a virtual hook up to be a part of this very valuable session.

It is a credit to the trade teachers and their apprentices for learning in this manner and we wish them every success in their chosen professions – here are some pics of some of those sessions below – we will be putting in an article to the ACV/GARDS Asbestos & Silica November newsletter – soon to be available 

Filed Under: Asbestos, Education, General information, silica

The Gordon TAFE Geelong Virtual Asbestos & Silica Awareness Session

October 28, 2020 By Vicki Hamilton

28th Oct 2020 – Today our org did a virtual asbestos and silica awareness session to 11 apprentice Painting & Decorating students at Geelong TAFE. We would like to thank Paul Webb their trade teacher for going above and beyond in making this happen. We were pleased to get feed back that the session was really valuable. It was also great to get calls after the session asking questions – we wish the apprentices all the best in their future trade – now more apprentices are asbestos and silica aware πŸ˜ŽπŸ‘ 

Filed Under: Asbestos, COVID-19, Education, silica

Asbestos & Silica Awareness Chisholm TAFE Frankston Carpenters 2020

March 17, 2020 By Vicki Hamilton

#Asbestos & Silica – 12th March 2020 – the ACV/GARDS team visited the Frankston campus of Chisholm TAFE – apprentice Carpenters – 20 new apprentices who listened to an asbestos & silica awareness session – they were a switched on bunch who asked lots of questions around all things asbestos & silica – the feed back from the apprentices was that it was very informative with quite a few who did not know they had been exposed to asbestos until they saw some of the pics and items that were on display and then they realized they had already had exposure around asbestos and/ or silica – we are proud to say these apprentices are now much more asbestos & silica aware. We wish these apprentices all the best in their chosen profession from the crew at ACV/GARDS πŸ‘πŸ˜Ž

Filed Under: Asbestos, Education, General information, Interesting News item, silica

Asbestos Awareness Orana Seniors Club 2020

March 17, 2020 By Vicki Hamilton

The 5th March ACV/GARDS conducted a presentation to the Orana Senior Citizens Club – 30 senior citizens listened to a very informative talk on asbestos from the past – present and future perspective. Those that attended enjoyed the videos shown and samples that they could view. Many questions were asked and a few of the men were quite talkative about their experiences with asbestos in their work place – all commented that they never knew that asbestos was so dangerous – no one told them. Some offered information that they had had their health effected and that mates they had worked with had died of this carcinogen. Others members spoke of women who had never worked in those environments but also were sick or who had died of small exposure through take home asbestos. It was truly a very interesting discussion by all. Thank you Orana Senior Citizens for the enjoyable lunch together – it was lovely to meet you all and to listen to your life stories around asbestos.

Filed Under: Asbestos, Education, General information, Interesting News item Tagged With: Asbestos Awareness

Asbestos & Silica Awareness Chisholm TAFE Dandenong Carpenters 2020

March 8, 2020 By Vicki Hamilton

#Asbestos & #Silica – 6th March 2020 – the ACV/GARDS team visited the Dandenong campus of Chisholm TAFE – apprentice Carpenters – 21 x 1st year and pre -apprentices listened to an asbestos & silica awareness session – they were a switched on bunch who asked lots of questions around all things asbestos & silica – the feed back from the apprentices was that it was very informative with quite a few not knowing anything about asbestos or silica – we are proud to say these apprentices are now much more asbestos & silica aware. We wish these apprentices all the best in their chosen profession from the crew at ACV/GARDS πŸ‘πŸ˜Ž

Filed Under: Asbestos, Education, General information, silica

Asbestos & Silica Awareness Gippsland TAFE Painting & Deco 2020

March 8, 2020 By Vicki Hamilton

#Asbestos & Silica – 4th March 2020 – the ACV/GARDS team had a visit from the Newborough campus – Painting & Deccrating Dept of TAFE Gippsland – 15 apprentices came for an asbestos & silica awareness session – great questions and terrific conversation around all things asbestos & silica – thank you to Davin for organising them to come to us – the feed back from the apprentices was that it was very informative and engaging so we are pretty proud to say these apprentices are now much more asbestos & silica aware. All the best in your chosen profession from all at ACV/GARDS πŸ‘πŸ˜Ž

 

Filed Under: Education, General information, Interesting News item, silica

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