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The Heads of Workplace Safety Authorities Imported Materials with Asbestos Working Group has issued this safety alert regarding asbestos found in Bunsen Burner Gauze mats that have been imported into Australia

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The Asbestos Safety and Eradication Agency commissioned The Asbestos Diseases Society of South Australia (ADSSA) to engage a researcher to undertake research to assess the effectiveness of asbestos awareness training (AAT) provided to South Australian high school students considering employment in the building and construction industry.

Trace amounts of asbestos have been detected in some brands of children’s crayons that have been imported into Australia. 

The Asbestos Safety and Eradication Agency (ASEA) commissioned UTS: The Centre for Local Government (UTS:CLG) to identify and evaluate the effectiveness of current local government asbestos safety initiatives including the use of local government asbestos management policies.

National Asbestos Exposure Register 2014-15 statistics

National Asbestos Exposure Register 2014-15 statistics.

2016 International Conference on Asbestos Awareness and Management - EY Sweeney Presentation of the results and findings of the 2016 National Asbestos Awareness and Attitudes Survey.

A report, by the Centre for International Economics, looks at the direct health care costs, as well as the cost of productivity and other losses resulting from time out of the workforce due to an asbestos-related disease in one year (2015).

It estimated hospital and primary care costs to be $192 million per year, and indirect costs arising from time out of the workforce to be $321 million per year.

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