Program

Subject to change

TIME
7.15 amWorkshop Transport
Shuttle transport from the Fairmont Resort to the workshop venue, the Blue Mountains Planetary Health Centre
7.30 am WORKSHOP REGISTRATIONS and ARRIVAL COFFEE/TEA
Blue Mountains Planetary Health Centre , Katoomba
8.00 am Techniques for Asbestos Sampling
Pre-Conference Workshop
Venue: Blue Mountains Planetary Health Centre
12.30 pm Workshop Concludes
Return transport to the Fairmont Resort
1.00 pmCONFERENCE REGISTRATIONS and LUNCH
Fairmont Resort
1.30 pmConference Opening
1.45 pmEvent Partners’ Welcome
LGNSW and AHCA
1.55 pmKeynote Presentation:
Asbestos National Strategic Plan (ANSP) and Silica National Strategic Plan (SNSP)

Jodie Deakes, CEO, Asbestos And Silica Safety And Eradication Agency
2.35 pmKeynote Presentation:
The role of the NSW Asbestos Coordination Committee

Carolyn Walsh, Independent Chair, NACC
2.55 pmBenefits of internal capability for managing hazardous materials in buildings and land
Daniel Adler, LGNSW, Ana Serra, Liverpool City Council and Jason Adams, Blue Mountains City Council
3.25 pmAFTERNOON TEA / EXPO
4.00 pmPlatinum Sponsor Presentation
Property Risk Australia
4.10 pmAlternative Perspectives on the Management of Asbestos in Recovered Material for Beneficial Reuse in NSW
Darren Saunders and Domenic Pace, Office of the NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer
4.40 pmExecutives’ Forum
Work Health and Safety – Isaac Mann, Industrial Unit, LGNSW
Protection of the Environment and Public Liability – Anna Sinclair, Lindsay Taylor Lawyers
5.30 pmDAY 1 CONCLUDES
6.30 pm – 10.00 pmNETWORKING DINNER
Fairmont Resort
TIME
8.00 am ARRIVAL COFFEE/TEA and EXPO
8.30 amWHS Regulatory Requirements to Manage Risks from Asbestos
Steven Nikolovski and Gail Moss, SafeWork NSW
Healthy HomesHealthy Workplace
9.15 amAsbestos cement roofs – a significantly greater risk than asbestos in mulch
John Batty, EDP Consulting
Reliability of asbestos fibre air monitoring results without metrological traceability
Richard Wilkinson, Coffey
9.45 amVendor disclosure of asbestos for residential property sales in NSW
Anthony Cahill, Legal Expert
Asbestos detection by application of novel fluorescence onsite and in-situ
Dr Erik Schartner, University of Adelaide
10.15 amHousehold asbestos collection program
James Vincent, RID Southern Program ISJO
A Safe Playground – mulch & recovered fines free of asbestos: Realtime detection at the critical point – tipping yard learnings
Federico Collarte, Baraja
10.45 amMORNING TEA / EXPO
Healthy CommunityHealthy Workplace
11.15 amDisclosure of asbestos to tenants and property buyers in Victoria
Briana Jackman, Maurice Blackburn Lawyers
Asbestos E-Learning case study
Karen Morrison, Safework NSW
11.45 amAsbestos contamination of recovered resources
Jason Scarborough, JS Regulatory Services
Education approaches to upskilling in the building sector, including e-learning
Anna-Maria Faust, Building Commission NSW
12.15 pmSustainability Victoria, Asbestos Disposal Pilot Project
Selena Papps, Sustainability Victoria (Virtual Presentation)
Silica and legislative change
Alice Au and Chris Charman, Safework NSW
12.40 pmLUNCH / EXPO
1.15 pmThe obligations to report pollution incidents under the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 eg: asbestos in mulch
Katherine Pickerd, Colin Biggers & Paisley
Critical thinking during emergency asbestos clean-ups
John Formosa and Martin Dwyer, Public Works
1.45 pmSupa Roofing Survey Work
Benn Treharne, EPA
Asbestos – Cleaning up the flood disaster legacy in the NSW Northern Rivers
Karen Rudkin and Jeanie McKillop, North-East Waste
2.15 pm Lead containing paint and dust a risk?
Nigel Johnson, Property Risk Australia
2.45 pmNursing models of care/support and psychosocial issues for workers exposed to asbestos and other dusts
Dr. Vanessa Brunelli and A/Prof Haryana Dhillon, University of Wollongong
3.15 pmHow safe are our analysts?
Colette Willoughby, Norac UK (Virtual Presentation)
3.45 pmConference Closing Address
4.00 pmDAY 2 CONCLUDES

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