FROM August 18 to September 2 ‘BETTY’ - The ADRI House will be on the road taking a vital message of asbestos awareness to Western NSW and the Blue Mountains while conducting a series of media call events in multiple towns and at agricultural events.
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The project will be in Lithgow on Friday.
BETTY will cover more than 2000 km over 16 days, pass through multiple communities and will be the focal point of media and local community events while visiting 10 communities.
BETTY will be coming to Lithgow’s Marjorie Jackson Plaza on Friday August 30 between 10am and 11.30am.
As part of her regional tour of NSW, BETTY’s mission is to urge people to ‘stop playing renovation roulette’ by alerting them to dangers of asbestos when renovating or maintaining homes, and directing them to asbestosawareness.com.au to learn where asbestos might be found in homes and how best to manage it.
The first of its kind in Australia and the world, ‘BETTY – The ADRI House’ is a purpose built education exhibit the size of a caravan and the initiative of the Asbestos Diseases Research Institute (ADRI) in partnership with the Asbestos Education Committee (AEC).
BETTY, together with the asbestosawareness.com.au website (Australia’s most comprehensive online national asbestos information resource) form the first line of defence against the so-called “third wave” of asbestos-related diseases in Australia.
Australia has one of the highest rates of asbestos related diseases in the world because Australia was one of the top consumers of asbestos cement products per capita.
With almost every Australian home built or renovated before 1987 likely to contain asbestos in one form or another the number of people affected by mesothelioma (an incurable asbestos-related cancer), will continue to rise unless Australians start taking seriously the dangers of asbestos when renovating or maintaining their homes whether constructed of brick, weatherboard, fibro or even cladding.
Asbestos can be found under floor coverings such as carpets, linoleum and vinyl tiles, behind wall and floor tiles, in cement floors, internal and external walls, ceilings, eaves, garages, around hot water pipes, fences, extensions to homes, outdoor toilets, dog kennels and backyard sheds — it could be anywhere.
An additional problem is that most people can’t tell whether building materials contain asbestos just by looking at them.
