Inaugural Annual Committee Forum in Canberra !st April 2025

#asbestos #silica – 31st and 1st April some more photos of Joanna and I who attended the Inaugural Annual Committee Forum in Canberra a good start to new strategic plans to take us forward to 2030 Pictured here are those who attended and the ASSEA Council

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Asbestos & Silica Awareness Gippsland TAFE Newborough Campus Carpentry March 2025

#asbestos #silicdust #awareness – On Wednesday 19th March ACV/GARDS reps attended TAFE Gippsland Newborough campus and spoke to 20+ carpentry apprentices about asbestos and silica – we were lucky to have Joanna Mcneill Silicosis advocate with us – the session saw the apprentices asking many questions and teachers joining in. It was great to have…

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New Silicosis Hub For Info Just Launched

#silica #silicdust Asbestos and Dust Diseases Research Institute -ADDRI https://addri.org.au/ have created a new silicosis hub https://silicosis.org.au/ Take a look at the new site it has a lot of info to help support silica sufferers – well done ADDRI

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Morwell Trades School Centre – TAFE Gippsland Asbestos & Silica Awareness Session

#asbestos #silica #awareness – Today ACV/GARDS conducted an awareness session to 110 apprentices at TAFE Gippsland – Morwell – to plumbers and electricians – great bunch of switched on apprentices who asked terrific questions and went out of the session armed with info for their future trades – we wish them well in their future…

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Asbestos and Silica Awareness Session at GTLC

#silica #asbestos #awareness – today 3rd Feb we conducted a session to some young persons looking to get into a trade or some sort of pathway – the course is the Domestic Building and Construction course we conducted this at Gippsland Trades & Labour Council Inc office – the course participants get training on all…

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ACV/GARDS Inc. AGM – Reminder

#asbestos #silica #AGM2025 – Reminder that our Annual General Meeting of the Asbestos Council of Victoria/GARDS Inc. is taking place on Saturday 8th February at 2pm at the ACV/GARDS office – 211 Lloyd Street Moe – all are welcome – If you would like to join us for this meeting please advise of your attendance.…

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ACV/GARDS Xmas Lunch – Melbourne 9th November

9th December saw our Melb support group members having a wonderful time at the Mulgrave Country Club for our annual Xmas lunch – we had 13 members attend – this is some of the members enjoying the festivities of the day. We had two full tables but by the time the photos were thought about…

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Asbestos & Silica Awareness Session to TAFE Newborough Campus Oct 2024

#asbestos #silica #tafegippsland – 23rd Oct #ACVGARDS conducted an asbestos and silica awareness session to TAFE Newborough campus where some 30 young apprentices from varying trades attended the tute – we were lucky enough to have with us #JoannaMcNeill who came and spoke to the room about silica and Joanna’s journey and Matt Erbs from…

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Monash University Community Placement-1st Year Medical Students

#asbestos #silica #monashuniversity #acvgards #education – 9th Oct 2024 saw our final set of 1st year medical students for the year finish their community placement with us here at ACV/GARDS – they finished a 38 hour placement over a few months – we had a terrific last day with a session on line with Maurice…

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Monash University School of Rural Health Asbestos & Silica Awareness

#asbestos #silica #monashuniversity – Monday 7th Oct saw the #acvgards team delivering an asbestos and silica awareness session to 100 1st year medical students – it was great to have #joannamcneill with us & Prof Jane Bourke Head, Respiratory Pharmacology Lab Monash University to talk all things asbestos and silica – the health, the science,…

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