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Chisholm TAFE Frankston Carpenters Feb 4th
4.2.2019 – ACV/GARDS duo Vicki and Dot attended Chisholm TAFE – Frankston campus to conduct asbestos awareness sessions to 60+ Carpenters – great questions and terrific trade teachers who added to the session – more apprentices now asbestos aware! Thanks for making us welcome everyone it was a great day discussing all things asbestos
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31st January saw the ACV/GARDS girls at their first Asbestos Awareness session for 2019 @Chisholm_Inst Berwick with 30+ apprentice Carpenters – great bunch of apprentices and terrific questions from the apprentices. We also had the experience of 3 hard working Trade teachers there to share their knowledge from their working life in the session –…
Read MoreACV/GARDS Successful Grant Recipient – Latrobe Valley Authority
29th January – ACV/GARDS reps – Vicki, Dorothy, Tanya and Ethan attended the announcement of the successful grant recipients made by the Latrobe Valley Authority, one of which was ACV/GARDS – the grant was for a fit out of our new office we are moving to in the next fortnight. We were very excited to…
Read MoreAGM for ACV/GARDS 2019
27th January – our AGM was held with 3 positions on our committee declared vacant – all 3 position were filled by single nominations for each position and therefore no elections were held because no positions were contested – congratulations to Marie Smith – Vice President, Vicki Hamilton OAM – Secretary, Ray Whittaker – Committee…
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ACV/GARDS on the move.. Gippsland Heritage Park Day Out & About
30th October – the ACV/GARDS support group members had a wonderful day out at the Gippsland Folk Museum – Heritage Park in Moe. They had a tour of the park with a very lovely tour guide who arranged for a ride around the park in a vintage car, a silent movie with Charlie Chaplan in…
Read More10 year Carbon Capture Celebration at AGL Loy Yang 2018
26.10.2018 – ACV/GARDS rep Vicki was at AGL Loy Yang Traralgon at the carbon capture pilot plant site to celebrate 10 years of research into carbon capture and storage – just another new technology being developed in Latrobe Valley – well done AGL, IHI & CSIRO – it was very interesting listening to how this…
Read MoreWatch video stories about Asbestos Disease
We’ve just added a new page to our website that features interviews and personal stories from people effected by Asbestos Disease. Click here to watch them via this link. New videos will be added regularly, so please come back again to take a look.
Read MoreLavalla Students Asbestos Aware
ACV/GARDS CEO, Vicki, attended Lavalla College, Traralgon to support her VCAL student Jordan, who was doing a presentation of asbestos awareness to 60 of his class mates – Jordan intends to become a plumber – he did a great job of his presentation – There were terrific questions from the students and I must say…
Read MorePlumbers Asbestos Aware at Berwick TAFE 2018
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…
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