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Asbestos Disclosure in residential properties

July 1, 2022 By Wendy McEwan

If you are buying or selling a house, or are a Landlord or Tenant, there are some responsibilities around Asbestos Disclosure you need to be aware of to help keep everyone safe.

Watch these two new videos to learn more:

Disclosure of asbestos in residential property: Information for renters and landlords

Disclosure of asbestos in residential property: Information for buyers and sellers

Filed Under: Asbestos, Education, General information

Think Twice About Asbestos Webinar

December 13, 2021 By Wendy McEwan

Watch a recording of our Asbestos webinar that took place on 26 November 2021.

If you missed it or are interested in the issues around asbestos please take time to watch the video, it takes about an hour and tells a lot about what is happening in this area. We hope you will find it insightful and moving. We acknowledge and thank EngergyAustralia Yallourn for helping to fund this webinar – please note there is a short pause just as Jane starts her talk as the audio had to be fixed it takes about a minute before she starts

If you have any questions you can still email them to us and we will try to answer them for you.

Filed Under: Asbestos, Education, General information

Asbestos Awareness Week 2021

November 23, 2021 By Wendy McEwan

Asbestos Awareness Week graphic in red and black

Asbestos Awareness Week is November 22 – 28

The National Asbestos Awareness Week 2021 Stakeholder Campaign Pack, created by the Asbestos Safety and Eradication Agency, contains a great range of free information, posters, social media graphics, fact sheets and press ads available to use.

All resources and assets are available via dropbox for download in a variety of formats.

Click to access the drop box files >

Files are available to download, and editable files are also available. 

 

Filed Under: Asbestos, Education, General information

Read the GARDS November 21 Newsletter

November 13, 2021 By Wendy McEwan

Take a look at our November 2021 Newsletter, with some great articles and news on what we have been doing in recent months.

A big thank you to our team and the businesses who support us to make the newsletter possible.

Front page of GARDS November 2021 newsletter

Filed Under: Education, General information, Newsletters

Clear and Present Danger – watch this video on finding asbestos in your home

June 30, 2021 By Wendy McEwan

A great video we have added to our series of videos for tradies is ‘Clear and Present Danger‘.

This video is informative and easy to follow, and shows where you could find asbestos in your home.

Visit the Education section of this website to watch it >

Filed Under: Asbestos, Asbestos Video Stories, Education

Chisholm TAFE VET Apprentices Asbestos & Silica Awareness Sessions May 2021

May 15, 2021 By Vicki Hamilton

#asbestos #silica 12th May saw ACV/GARDS conducting an asbestos and silica awareness session to 140 Frankston Chisholm TAFE VET apprentices – 70 students in the morning and 70 students in the afternoon – there were some terrific questions by the VET students and much information was shared between the students and ourselves and their trade teachers – we wish all of them all the best in their chosen trade into the future and they are now much more asbestos and silica aware – pictured here in these photos are some of those VET students 😊👍👍

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

Asbestos & Silica Awareness Geelong TAFE Apprentice Painting & Deco March 2021

March 22, 2021 By Vicki Hamilton

#asbestos #asbestosawareness #Silica #silicaawareness – Today 22nd March ACV/GARDS did a virtual presentation to TAFE apprentice Painter & Decorators at The Gordon, Geelong campus. It was really great to catch up with their teacher Paul Webb and really good to be able to get to more apprentices and make them asbestos & silica aware – We hope they got a lot out of the session and they can take this info forward into the future in their chosen profession. They now know what are trusted sites to empower them to make the right decisions in their jobs. We wish them the very best for the future 🤞

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

Gippsland TAFE Newborough Campus Apprentice Painting & Decorating March 2021

March 9, 2021 By Vicki Hamilton

3rd March 2021 We were delighted to attend in person at TAFE Gippsland – Newborough campus to give a session to 35 apprentice Painter and Decorators on asbestos and silica awareness. The group were very enthusiastic and asked many questions – it was great to have so much interaction through out the session – of course social distancing was adhered to in the auditorium but it was good to be able to be there in person and delivery our info bags and show samples – thank you to Davin for arranging it – ACV/GARDS will be going back in a few months all being well and no COVID lock downs to deliver the session to other trades. We now have moreapprentices asbestos and silica aware 👍😎

Filed Under: Asbestos, Days out and about, Education, silica, Silicosis

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