26–28 November 2017
The Asbestos Safety and Eradication Summit was held on 26–28 November 2017 at the historic Old Parliament House in Canberra. This event was the fourth major event the agency had organised and the most important in starting the process towards the development of a new national strategic plan for 2019 and beyond.
Building on the agency annual international conferences in 2014 in Melbourne, 2015 in Brisbane and 2016 in Adelaide; the event was a great success in drawing 280 attendees to participate in facilitated workshops on the six goals of the existing national plan and outline what they wanted to see in the second national strategic plan the agency develop in 2018.
There was also a mobile asbestos museum with a wide range of examples of asbestos products from Australia and internationally to show delegates how big a problem it has been in the past and how much work needs to be done to eradicate it from the community.
The agency is currently organising the next event, Asbestos: the next national plan – Proactivity, prevention, planning, which will take place in Sydney on 18–20 November 2018.
