As specialist cleaners in hazmat suits move in to SA schools, here’s everything you need to know about the kinetic sand contamination crisis. On Monday, the clean-up began and sites were added to a ...
ME Jukes & Son Ltd owner Trevor Jukes and Cheryl Taylor (health and safety support) in the business's asbestos isolation area with kinetic sand products deposited by several schools. Schools and ...
Parents across Geelong are facing anxious wait times and huge bills to remove potentially contaminated kinetic sand products from their homes. Ocean Grove mum Jackie Landsdowne said she had no idea ...
Can this coloured sand be deadly? As schools are closed amid a nationwide recall, we explain the risks if your kids have been exposed to play sand containing asbestos. The rapid response by education ...
The rapid response by education departments, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and various work safety agencies has been a whirlwind since Wednesday. Last Wednesday, the ACCC ...
Kmart NZ Magic Sands products are being recalled after asbestos was detected. They are the 14-piece Sandcastle Building Set and the Blue, Green and Pink Magic Sand sets. Two Canterbury schools have ...
A New South Wales after-school hours operator said an asbestos removal company wanted to charge her more than $14,000 to vacuum up a few clumps of recalled coloured sand that had spilled onto a carpet ...
Concern grows across the country about asbestos continamination in play sand, as more schools and early learning centres close for testing. Source: Supplied/NCA Newswire With hundreds of schools and ...
Some families say guidelines about how to safely clean and dispose of asbestos-contaminated sand have been "confusing". The ACCC says consumers should not dispose of the sand in household bins, but ...