Improvements to on-line information at www.lead.org.au

There were over 97,700 page-views of the massive amount of information on our website this year (see Annex 1, 2 and 3). There are now 1,381 files on the website. Fifty-one point six percent of our web-page viewers (50,413 page-views) were from Australia and the remaining 48.4% were from 143 other countries.

Our webmaster David Ratcliffe made numerous improvements to the site (see Annex 4) including updating entries in 6 tables from our referrals database so that web-users can search out their own lead-trained painters, lead assessors, ceiling dust removalists, laboratories, lead spot test kit retailers, etc.

New links on www.lead.org.au this year include to:

1. Abotex Lead Inspector website www.leadinspector.com
2. Sth Australian Environment Protection Authority website www.epa.sa.gov.au
3. Keith Buxton's new Broken Hill website www.users.bigpond.net.au/kbyits 

 In preparation for additional publication of database information on the website we have purchased a Microsoft SQL / ISA (Internet Security Acceleration) server computer at a cost of $3875.

 Improvements to on-line information in general

LASA successfully requested the following improvements to other websites:

1. links to www.lead.org.au on http://savetheswans.ca/
2. link to www.lead.org.au on www.lead-poisoning-news.com/html/resources.html
3. link to www.lead.org.au on Environmental Health Network of California website http://ehnca.org/
4. link to www.lead.org.au on Environmental Health Watch Ohio website www.ehw.org/Links/LINK_Child_Lead_Poison1.htm
5. link to www.lead.org.au on Queensland Conservation Council website www.qccqld.org.au/smogbusters/links.htm
6. link to www.lead.org.au on Smogbusters www.waytoschoolkit.infoxchange.net.au/links.html
7. link to www.lead.org.au on Global Lead Network www.globalleadnet.org/
8. link to www.lead.org.au on Public Health Oceania - Australia website www.ldb.org/vl/geo/oceania/6aus.htm
9. listing in directory.google.com/Top/Science/Environment/Environmental_Health/Toxic_Substances/Lead/
10. link to www.lead.org.au on Association of Societies for Occupational Safety and Health (ASOSH) website 
11. link to www.lead.org.au on National Toxics Network website www.ntn.org.au
12. link to www.lead.org.au on Australian Dust Removalists Assocn website www.adra.com.au
13. link to www.lead.org.au on University of Illinois Extension Master Gardener Course website www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/mglinks/envconcerns.html
14. link to www.lead.org.au on DMOZ Open Directory website www.dmoz.org/Science/Environment/Environmental_Health/Toxic_Substances/Lead/
15. link to www.lead.org.au on https://search.freefind.com/find.html?id=5553033