Bianca commenced her role as a Director of the Society in 2015 and was appointed Deputy Chair in 2018. She is a strong advocate for community organisations, human rights and social justice issues since she began her career in 1998 at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Legal Service in North Queensland. Since then Bianca has worked alongside the union movement and with relevant industry working groups to help increase the awareness of the risks associated with asbestos exposure and more importantly to help to prevent it, including through her legal work at a number of significant Queensland Personal Injury firms. Bianca currently works as the Training Compliance officer with Multiplex on the Queens Wharf construction project.

Phil is a qualified carpenter and worked with asbestos products during the eighties and nineties. Phil is currently CFMEU Asbestos and Silica Awareness Trainer. Phil has been a member of the Society since 2012, director from 2016 and was elected Board Chair in 2018. He is passionate about eradicating asbestos in the building industry and stopping asbestos imported products coming into Australia.

Pat been a member of ADSS since 2004 and was awarded life membership in 2016. Pat has held a number of roles in ADSS including:

• Director since incorporation of ADSS in 2015
• Member – Asbestos Related Disease Support Society Queensland Management Committee
  2008 to 2015, including 2 years as Vice President.

Pat became involved with ADSS when her husband Joe was diagnosed with asbestosis after many  years of working with asbestos containing water pipes. Pat saw a once a once healthy and vibrant man slowly deteriorate with this debilitating lung disease. Pat has been involved with the Society for many years and was one of the first volunteers to provide telephone support services to sufferers – a service that she has provided for over 10 years and continues to provide.

Margot has been a director of ADSS since 2015 and currently works for the Queensland Council of  Unions as the Development and Women’s Officer. Margot has extensive experience in work, health and safety a trainer, a member of the Committee of Management for the Workers Occupational Health Centre in Melbourne, involvement with the Victorian Asbestos Society, and as a past Health and Safety Officer in the union movement worked on the development and implementation of high level strategic asbestos related campaigns, including campaigns to increase approval of drugs on  Pharmaceuticals Benefit Scheme, the James Hardie campaign, Asbestos regulation and enforcement and the goal of an Asbestos Free Australia by 2030.

Garry has been a member of the Society since 2013 and director since 2016. He currently works for the Electrical Trades Union as an Organiser. Garry has seen many of his colleagues affected by asbestos related diseases. The knowledge he has gained as a tradesperson working with and around asbestos for over 30 years has driven him to speak out and be involved in campaigns of public awareness of asbestos.