Free community services
Free community services to help you understand lead issues in Broken Hill include:
- carrying out blood lead tests on children under the age of 5 years
- offering services to monitor and maintain low blood lead levels
- providing families with strategies for reducing their child’s risk of exposure and absorption of lead
- individual counselling of families of children with elevated blood lead levels
- testing dust, paint and soils for lead contamination is carried out for those families who are identified as being at risk
- monitoring of lead in air and soil is carried out routinely in Broken Hill. This enables long-term trends to be monitored and for programs to be implemented to reduce risks of exposure in the community.
- conducting research into the sources and pathways of lead. This information is then used to reduce the risk of exposure and absorption of lead in the community.
- conducting health promotion and targeted education programs in order to raise the level of awareness within the community in regard to living safely with lead.
LeadSmart
LeadSmart is a NSW Government initiative delivered in partnership with the Environment Protection Authority, NSW Health and Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation.
