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Asbestos in the Home Removal Kit
Anyone in the Latrobe City community planning to remove a small amount of dangerous asbestos material as part of a home renovation, can now do so in relative safety following the launch of the ‘Asbestos in the Home Removal Kit’.
Removal Kit Contents:
1 X DVD Instruction
Guide (11 Min approx)
2 x 5m x 3m x 200um Black Plastic Wrap
2 x 600 x 450mm Printed Disposal Bags
2 x 1100 x 700mm Printed Disposal Bags
2 x Breathable Disposable Coveralls
2 x Vented Flat Fold Respirators
8 x 'Blue Rhino' Disposable Gloves
4 x Disposable Overshoes
1 x Roll Duct Tape
1 x 6m Printed Barrier Tape
4 x Wipe Down Rags
1 x 1lt. Spray Mist Bottle
1 x 250ml PVA Glue
3 x Asbestos Warning Stickers
Obtaining
The Removal Kit
The
‘Asbestos in the Home Removal Kit’ (for Latrobe City Residents
only) can be purchased from the Latrobe City Council service centre, Commercial
Road, Morwell for $20. The cost also covers the disposal fee at the Latrobe
City landfill. A free asbestos awareness and education session (approx. 30
mins duration) is provided with each kit.
Any Latrobe City resident
planning a home renovation involving the removal of asbestos material should
first contact Peter Collins, Latrobe City Council Waste Education Officer
on 1300 367 700 to arrange an appointment.
Other Asbestos Related Information
If
you are seeking information on accredited registered licenced removalist's
for the removal of small & large quantaties of asbestos or would like
information on where to have materials analysed for asbestos please contact
the GARDS office on 03 51277744 or email your inquiry to info@gards.org
Acknowledgements:
The ‘Asbestos
in the Home Removal Kit’ and DVD Project was funded by the Department
of Human Services and Latrobe City Council. It was produced with the support
of EPA Victoria, WorkSafe, Gippsland Asbestos Related Diseases Support Inc.,
Gippsland Trades and Labour Council, the Victorian Waste Management Association,
G & J Crosby Pty Ltd, Veolia Environmental Services and Hazcon Pty Ltd.
Safety equipment supplied by Rodburn Industrial
Background Information on the Asbestos in the Home Removal Kit:
Back in early 2004 the Gippsland Asbestos Related Diseases Support Inc. (GARDS) and Gippsland Trades and Labour Council (GTLC) identified a need for education, safe removal and safe storage of domestic asbestos in Gippsland.
GARDS and GTLC met on a number of occasions to talk through some of the issues. We then went out seeking others to join our quest to gather support and work together on these ideas.
In mid 2004 we met with an organisation that we thought was willing to work with us on creating the Asbestos Storage Facility and making it happen but unfortunately that was not to be the case. It soon became apparent that this organisation wanted to have total control and go it alone with our idea. As the companies proposal was not a high quality facility the surrounding community had no confidence in it and as a result the companies proposal was never realized.
A public meeting was called on July 8th 2005 where EPA, that Asbestos Removal Company, GTLC, GARDS and some concerned community discussed some of the pros and cons about where a facility should be located and what that facility might look like. It was also discussed that the community must have confidence that it would be the very best it could be, so that domestic asbestos could be safely deposited and held there, and would not represent a danger to the community in any way.
Following on from that meeting GARDS and GTLC found another partner that they thought they might be able to work with and discussions started to take place with this environmental services firm over a facility and what it might look like. Always keeping in mind the concerns of the community for a safe facility they could have confidence in.
GARDS and GTLC then took those talks to EPA Victoria where discussions and presentations from GTLC, GARDS and the Environmental Services firm started taking place and what a storage facility could look like and some of the infrastructure that would have to be put in place with it. One of those infrastructure items was an asbestos home removal kit. After some consecutive meetings started taking place between our organisations other representatives from other organisations were asked to join us and in November 2005 the Latrobe Domestic Asbestos Waste Management Committee started to be realized.
Slowly one by one representatives from Latrobe City Council, Dept of Human Services, Victorian Workcover Authority, and Victorian Waste Management Association added their collective expertise to the committee.
EPA has chaired these meetings and provided the secretarial support. GARDS has provided their premises and provided afternoon tea for this group since Nov 2005.
Some group members have met in excess of 40 times or more to discuss and gather information for the committee.
The earlier meetings
that GTLC, GARDS and the environmental services firm had with EPA has now
seen one of the infrastructure ideas emerge as the Asbestos in the Home Removal
Kit, launched on the 22nd of March 2007. This infrastructure was prepared
so that an asbestos storage facility could be realized.
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