Education

5.10.2018 the ACV/GARDS girls gave another asbestos awareness session to another class of apprentice plumbers at Chisholm TAFE Berwick campus. Good questions asked and more apprentices asbestos aware. We are very pleased to have been able to get to so many apprentices this year. We still have one more class at Frankston next week. We…

ACV/GARDS attended the Warragul Probus Club 27.9.2018 – There were over 100 Probus members who attended. We think most had no idea what asbestos might be lurking in. There were many questions asked about the domestic scene and lots of information given out on the day. The Probus members are now more asbestos aware –…

4/9/2018 & 26/9/2018 – ACV/GARDS girls were at Chisholm TAFES Berwick & Frankston campus – another 50 apprentice plumbers asbestos aware – switched on apprentices who had some terrific questions – empowered to ask “is that asbestos” if they suspect it might be. They now know that they can ask questions. Really terrific bunch of…

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…

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…

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…

 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…

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…

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…