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Artist: Tim Pye
Lead-safety Message: According to Niamh O’Regan and Aveek Bhattacharya in the New Statesman article Revealed: Britain’s lead poisoning legacy could still be affecting children: “The UK has some of the oldest housing stock in the world.” Old paint is invariably lead paint so don’t dry-sand it!
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Artists: Elizabeth O’Brien (author) and Alex Jewson (voice actor)
Lead Safety Message: Chapter 1 – The LEAD Group: Responding to the Problem of Lead Contamination, from the book “LOCAL HEROES: Australian crusades from the environmental frontline” (2002) tells the history of The LEAD Group’s first decade of creating lead safety. Listen to this chapter (and read along at https://lead.org.au/lanv14n2/lanv14n2-11.html) to find out what you can do about lead.
Description of work: Book edited by Kathleen McPhillips; Chapter 1 written by Elizabeth O’Brien; voice mp3 at https://lead.org.au/local-heroes-chapter-1-read-by-Alex-Jewson.mp3 and accessible via: https://lead.org.au/lanv14n2/lanv14n2-11.html read by Alex Jewson ( https://alexjewsonvo.com) . The last few copies of “LOCAL HEROES” book are available for purchase from https://www.leadsafeworld.com/product/local-heroes-book/ cover photo of Elizabeth O’Brien and youngest son by Adrian Hill; book cover design by Tracy Baglin; photo of Alex Jewson by Tivy Siripanich; image collaged in Powerpoint & Paint.
Artist: Grandma Lead
Lead-safety Message: A truck-mounted industrial HEPA vac like this Insulvac one can lead-safely remove and bag up for waste disposal, 100m2 of ceiling void dust per day from a block of flats. Every building should be professionally detoxed of toxic cavity dust by an Australian Dust Removalists Association (ADRA) member company.
Description of Work: Photo and logo collage made in Powerpoint and Paint. Lead-safety message 100m2 factoid courtesy of Gavin Clarke, ADRA President.
Artist: Eric Ritter, Fluoro-Spec Inc. USA
Lead-Safety Message: Test with a kit, not your kid — every American home built before 1978 has lead somewhere inside it, and the same is true of every Australian home built before 1997 when the allowable new paint lead-paint limit got close to the US 1978 concentration.
Description of Work: Screenshot from www.detectlead.com homepage.
