The Lead Education and Abatement Design Group
Working to eliminate lead poisoning globally and to protect the
environment from lead in all its uses: past, current and new uses
ABN 25 819 463 114
Join the dedicated team at The LEAD Group in Summer
Hill, Sydney, or work from your own home or office if you would like to help
eliminate lead poisoning and protect the environment from lead.
Here is The LEAD Group's volunteer jobs list:
Data-entry trainers and officers learn then
train others to use our fabulous custom-built Access frontend / SQL
database to enter caller's details and incoming emails and library
articles, and outgoing emails of the information we have uniquely
matched to their needs during their communication (email / phone call)
with the Global Lead Advice and Support Service (GLASS).
Publicist / journalist to organise writing and
distribution of media releases, including promotion of all the following
activities.
Fund-raiser / Grant application-writer to obtain
funds for:
a)
the essential Global Lead Advice and Support Service (GLASS) - a telephone
and email information and referral service provided free to the community,
covering all aspects of managing and preventing lead poisoning and lead
contamination in Australia and worldwide. GLASS has so far responded to
emails from over 140 countries and data-entered nearly 100,000
communications with clients and lead experts;
b)
the newly created Lead Safe World Project - an education project to search
out, write and then web-publish a database of information and referrals
provided free to the community, covering every company which offers a
lead-safe service (such as lead paint removal) or lead-free product (such as
lead-free roof flashing) and any other service or product which helps
managing and preventing lead poisoning and lead contamination in the world;
c)
publication and distribution of The LEAD Group's newsletter - "LEAD
Action News", a 4-32 page approximately quarterly publication on all
news related to lead which has been published at www.lead.org.au/nl.html
since February 1993;
d)
event management and promotion of International Lead Poisoning Awareness
Week (a week including 20th October each year, eg Sunday 20th October to
Saturday 26th October 2013);
e)
promotion and management of the Volcano Art Prize which develops graphics
for use in lead education. Entry to this lead-safety art competition is free
for children worldwide and for adults in non-OECD countries, and only costs
$10 for adults in OECD countries;
Newsletter compiler/editor/journalist to put
together our quarterly publication "LEAD Action News" (see www.lead.org.au/nl.html)
which is now an online-only newsletter
Publicist to promote International Lead Poisoning
Awareness Week (approximately 20th to 26th October each year).
Actuary to research the average age of death and
typical causes of death of those workers who have been exposed to lead
but for whom there are typically not even blood lead monitoring programs
in place eg radiator repairers, painters, indoor shooting range
cleaners, ceiling dust removalists, insulation installers, muffler
repairers, smash repairers, electronics manufacture and repair industry
workers, lead lighters, demolition contractors, etc.
Researcher/factsheet writer/journalist for a range
of topics eg "Permaculture methods to deal with lead
contaminated soil", "What you need to know about lead
before buying an old house", "Lead poisoning surveillance
in Australia", "What to do when your neighbour is carrying
out unsafe renovation or demolition", "What to do if your
child is lead poisoned", "What to do if you have a blood
lead level above 1 ΅g/dL", "The hazards of heavy metals
for scrap metal recyclers", "Alternatives to leaded
consumer products", "What lawyers need to know about
lead", "The history of lead litigation in Australia",
"Why Australia needs a national lead strategy now that leaded
petrol and leaded paint is banned", "Experiences with
chelation treatment for lead poisoning in Australia", "The
essential role of the Global Lead Advice and Support Service",
"Australian government policy and actual responses to the problem
of lead", "Australia's income from lead exports",
"If lead is so toxic and so "recyclable" - why is it
still mined and used?", "You alone are responsible for the
quality of your indoor air and your tank water",
"Legislation to control or eliminate lead: Australia
compared", "The legacy of growing up in a lead mining
town", "The need for Lead Advisory Services in countries
importing lead from Australia", etc.
Networkers / educators to inspire unions,
educational bodies, hobbyists (such as shooters, ceramicists, lead
lighters etc), health care professionals' organisations, rural groups
who are dependent on rainwater which is prone to lead contamination,
do-it-yourself renovators, landlords and the media, etc to be pro-active
in disseminating information about lead poisoning/contamination
prevention and management.
Legislation reformist to propose and campaign
for a variety of measures such as warning labels about lead hazards on
heatguns and sanders, the need for information on lead hazards in
pre-1997 buildings to be made available to tenants and home-buyers
before they take up residence, cradle to grave management of leaded
consumer products such as lead acid batteries, industrial paints, marine
paints, auto paints, ammunition, fishing sinkers, flashing, leadlight,
the need for people who hire a paint contractor to be sure that the
painter can do a lead-safe job, etc.
Passionate person who wants to eliminate lead
poisoning and has their own ideas on what to do but needs a base to work
from.
Intern/Mentee to Elizabeth OBrien, LEAD
Group co-founder and President, and Manager of GLASS. The LEAD Group is
seeking an individual who is passionate about changing the world for the
better, through making the world a lead-safe place and thus allowing
children to reach their IQ and learning potentials, and adults to live a
healthier longer life.