ASBESTOS
WHAT IS ASBESTOS?
Asbestos is term for a naturally occurring rock-forming mineral that has been has been minded extensively around the world and used for thousands of years.
ASBESTOS
WHAT IS ASBESTOS?
Asbestos is term for a naturally occurring rock-forming mineral that has been has been minded extensively around the world and used for thousands of years.
Asbestos Management Conference
Tuesday 26th November 2019
Harbourside Function Centre, Wellington
AAW2019
Asbestos Awareness Week 2019
The Asbestos Management Conference is one of the key education activities as part of Asbestos Awareness Week. The conference aims to drive improvements in the management of asbestos in buildings and workplaces throughout New Zealand.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
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Industry Professionals
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Health & Safety Managers
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Building Owners
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Business Owners
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Property Managers
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Facilities Managers
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Project Developers
Tickets:
$140 +GST Early Bird
$160 +GST General Sale
When:
Tuesday 26th Nov 2019
Where:
Harbourside Function Centre
4 Taranaki Street
Wellington
Asbestos Compliance as part of Building Renovation or Demolition Works
Industry Speaker
Counting the Cost of Non Compliance: When a Surveyor or Removalist Gets it Wrong
Chris Donne, Protec Consulting
Managing Asbestos Waste - Potential for Treating Asbestos
Terri-Ann Berry & Shannon Wallis, Unitec
AGENDA TOPICS
Current State of the Asbestos Industry
Rikki Jones, President of the NZDAA
Asbestos Management in New Zealand
Rob Birse, Worksafe New Zealand
Managing an Asbestos Portfolio Across Multiple Properties or Locations
Grant Craig & Rob Oudshoorn, University of Canterbury
Overlapping Duties for PCBUs
Rob Birse, Worksafe New Zealand
Emergency Response to Asbestos Exposures in a Building or Workplace
James Campbell, New Zealand Restoration Services
Counting the Cost of Non Compliance: Legal Perspectives
Nick Laing, Duncan Cotterill
Health Concerns - Is Silica the New Asbestos?
Professor Ian Shaw, University of Canterbury
SPEAKERS
Professor Ian Shaw, University of Canterbury
Professor Ian Shaw is an author, broadcaster and academic. He has worked in government science, the pharmaceuticals industry and in several universities. He is currently Professor of Toxicology at the University of Canterbury. Ian will outline the history of asbestos and its use in New Zealand which frequently led to asbestosis in exposed workers. He will then explore how airborne asbestos fibres get deep into the lungs causing severe irritation (asbestosis) and then drill their way through lung tissues, eventually impacting the mesothelial cells that line the lung’s surface. He will show how asbestos fibres interfere with genes in the mesothelial cells leading to their uncontrolled proliferation and the initiation of the inevitably fatal cancer, mesothelioma. Finally, he will draw similarities between asbestos fibres and some sharp silica fibres which lead to silicosis, and warn that workplace exposure to airborne silica might be the precursor to a new wave of mesothelioma.
Terri-Ann Berry & Shannon Wallis, Unitec
Terri-Ann Berry is Associate Professor and Director of Environmental Solutions Research Centre (ESRC-Unitec) and a Chartered Chemist and Environmentalist. She leads a research team (including PhD candidate, Shannon Wallis) on an MfE funded project on asbestos disposal options. Shannon Wallis is a qualified civil engineer and PhD candidate at the University of Canberra. A member of the ESRC, she helps to lead an international consortium of international experts in asbestos related issues. Her main interests lie in connecting ongoing asbestos research with issues associated with other asbestiform minerals in New Zealand and providing solutions for safe transportation and disposal (or treatment). Together they will present on the hazards and toxicology of asbestos and discuss the potential for long-term disposal versus treatments.
Nick Laing, Duncan Cotterill
Nick is a civil and commercial litigator. He has particular construction sector expertise from his work resolving disputes in this area. He acts on health and safety matters (including defending prosecutions) for businesses in the construction, civil engineering, and forestry industries. Nick was seconded to MBIE and assisted in the policy development and drafting of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2016. Nick has provided training and workshops to Boards, senior managers and staff in large corporates and small businesses alike. Nick will discuss recent trends and developments in enforcement/prosecutions for asbestos related incidents.
The organisers of Asbestos Awareness Week would like to acknowledge and thank our industry support partners for their continued support and for helping to promote and share the asbestos awareness message to their networks and contacts.