Asbestos Victims Assoc. (SA)

25/08/2026

21/08/2026

Air monitoring is an important part of keeping workers safe.

All stakeholders with an interest in improving health and air monitoring requirements for hazardous chemicals are encouraged to participate in the consultation.

Do you work with hazardous chemicals? We’re seeking feedback on proposed options to make health and air monitoring requirements clearer and easier to understand, helping workplaces better protect workers from exposure to hazardous chemicals.

Share your views on the proposed options by visiting our Consultation Hub, reading the consultation paper and sharing your thoughts through our online survey or by making a written submission: https://consult.swa.gov.au/heath-air-monitoring-review

The consultation is open until 11:59 pm on Monday 21 September 2026.

17/08/2026

SA State Emergency Service volunteers are front of line in all emergency situations. We congratulate them.

17/08/2026

17/08/2026

This is a thought-provoking statistic. Anyone who drills into, or works on, older buildings is at risk, including homeowners, but tradies exposed in the course of their work come across asbestos more often.
Check before you drill, and if the job has to be done, ensure you are wearing adequate protection.

17/08/2026

Well done, Nicola, and all the team at NCARD.

Congratulations to Dr Nicola Principe, a researcher with NCARD, who has received a $100,000 WA Near-Miss Award to investigate new approaches to improving cancer immunotherapy. Delivered through the Future Health Research and Innovation Fund, the award supports high-quality WA research that narrowly missed out on Commonwealth funding.

Dr Principe's project will examine why some tumours resist immunotherapy and whether existing cholesterol-lowering medicines, including statins, could help reduce this resistance. The research has particular relevance to mesothelioma, a cancer strongly linked to asbestos exposure, as well as lung cancer.

She will be mentored by Dr Jonathan Chee, Dr Melvin Chin and Professor Anna Nowak, and will work with collaborators at St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research and the Australian National Phenome Centre at Murdoch University.

Read the full story: https://ncard.org.au/ncard-researcher-awarded-100000-to-investigate-ways-to-improved-cancer-immunotherapy/

Institute for Respiratory Health

05/08/2026

We are running this advertisement on the back of 10 Adelaide Metro buses during July/ August

31/07/2026

29/07/2026

Workplace exposure limits for nine workplace chemicals will remain unchanged following a review.

After consideration of Safe Work Australia's Decision Regulation Impact Statement by WHS Ministers around the country, a majority decision to introduce new exposure limits on 1 December 2026 was not reached and further work has been requested for limits to be lowered on the following chemicals:

🔹Benzene
🔹Chlorine
🔹Copper
🔹Formaldehyde
🔹Hydrogen cyanide
🔹Hydrogen sulphide
🔹Nitrogen dioxide
🔹Respirable crystalline silica and
🔹Titanium dioxide

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻?
✅ Following a review, workplace exposure limits for these nine chemicals will remain unchanged when Australia transitions to the new Workplace Exposure Limits from 1 December 2026.

✅ The current exposure levels for these chemicals will remain in the place when the new limits come into effect.

Find out more about the decision 👉 https://bit.ly/4bDvczA

29/07/2026

There is no safe measure of exposure to asbestos.