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International Workers' Memorial Day is held on the 28 April each year to commemorate and honour those who have lost their lives to work-related injury or disease.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the consultation process for the draft Phase Three Asbestos National Strategic Plan (ANSP) between September and October 2023. We have published an infographic summarising the comments we received through workshops, webinars, written submissions and survey responses. This feedback was instrumental in shaping the revised version of the ANSP that was approved by the Asbestos Safety and Eradication Council in November.

Thank you for partnering with us to make National Asbestos Awareness Week (NAAW) 2023 a great success. We saw high levels of engagement from a range of stakeholders sharing the campaign materials across various media outlets including social and print media, radio and websites. Together we achieved impressive results:

Join us and the Faculty of Asbestos Management of Australia and New Zealand (FAMANZ) at ASBESTOS 2024 – Sustaining innovation from 4-6 March 2024 at the Rydges Hotel Melbourne.

National Asbestos Awareness Week 2023 (NAAW 2023) will be held from 20 – 26 November 2023.

The Asbestos National Strategic Plan 2019–2023 has four national priorities to focus strategic actions, which together aim to improve asbestos awareness and management. It also has nine national stretch targets that help us remain focused and measure our progress over the life of the plan. Progress reports highlight activities undertaken in relation to asbestos awareness, identification, prioritised removal, waste management, compliance and enforcement, as well as work to progress asbestos bans internationally.

In June 2023 Justine Ross (ASEA CEO) and Julia Collins (Director, International and Awareness) visited Jakarta in Indonesia to participate in a pilot training program on the diagnosis and treatment of asbestos-related diseases (ARDs). The program was organised by the Asbestos and Dust Diseases Research Institute (ADDRI) and Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA with support from ASEA.

Through the National Library of Australia, we have recently come across two asbestos product catalogues from Asbestolite which shows the historical use of asbestos in the 1940’s and 1950’s.

With the Seasonal Bushfire Outlook for Summer 2024 predicting an increased fire risk across much of Australia, the Asbestos and Silica Safety and Eradication Agency (ASSEA) is urging property owners to be vigilant about the dangers of asbestos in fire-damaged properties. Homes built before 1990 are likely to contain asbestos materials, which become dangerous when damaged or disturbed.

We have wrapped up the National Asbestos Awareness Campaign (NAAC) for the 2022-23 financial year, which ran across two phases – 20 November – 23 December 2022 and 12 March – 22 April 2023.