Lead Safe World Partners
Lead Safe World Partners are organisations worldwide that align with our mission to create a lead-safe world and address the critical issue of lead poisoning.
The LEAD Group Inc is a not-for-profit charity community organisation which develops and provides Model National Lead Safety Policy, information and referrals on lead poisoning and lead contamination prevention and management. Our goal is Working to eliminate lead poisoning globally and to protect the environment from lead in all its uses: past, current and new. The LEAD Group Inc. also sells test kits which help you to identify if your workplace, home or yard is contaminated by lead. This kit can be used by parents, renovators, child-care centre operators, teachers, landlords, agents, pet-owners. Find out if dust soil, drinking water, toys, paint, ceramics, jewellery, and other items are safe for humans and pets by buying a DIY – sampling / lab analysis lead kit here. Each year The LEAD Group runs the Volcano Art Prize (VAP), which is open to children and adults world wide, and publishes the VAP entries annually in LEAD Action News and on https://volcanoartprize.com/
In 2025, The LEAD Group Inc became a Partner of UNICEF’s Partnership for a Lead Free Future (PLF) – https://www.leadfreefuture.org/ – which aims to ensure that 95% of preschoolers globally have a blood lead level below 5 micrograms per decilitre (5µg/dL) by 2041. In March 2026 the PLF declared that: “Lead poisoning is the world’s most widespread environmental health threat to children, affecting over 4 in 10 children — more than malnutrition, infectious disease, zero-dose and the unvaccinated, out of school, or those in conflict areas—in low and middle-income Countries (LMICs). No other single hazard impairs so many children, so silently, so invisibly and so irreversibly. Addressing lead exposure in children is not another item on a long list of health concerns, it is the foundation upon which every other investment in a child’s life depends. It is an act of protection, dignity, and justice.”
In 2010 (and again in 2018), The LEAD Group Inc became an Ally of the Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint (GAELP) or Lead Paint Alliance for short. See https://www.unep.org/lead-paint-alliance-partners. GAELP is a voluntary collaborative initiative to focus and catalyze the efforts of a diverse range of stakeholders to achieve international goals to prevent children’s exposure to lead from paint and to minimize occupational exposures to lead paint, and is a joint undertaking of United Nations Environment and the World Health Organization (WHO). Due to The LEAD Group, Australia was the first country where not only residential paint but industrial paint met the stringent Lead Paint Alliance definition of non-lead paint as being paint containing less than 90 ppm lead, by Oct 2021.
In 2002 The LEAD Group Inc was invited to be a founding partner of the UN’s PCFV. The Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles was established at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in September 2002 to reduce vehicular air pollution in developing countries through the promotion of clean fuels and vehicles. The LEAD Group remained a Partner until the PCFV achieved the first of its cleaner fuels targets: the global elimination of automotive leaded petrol, by July 2021. There is now more PCFV information about leaded petrol/gasoline on The LEAD Group’s websites than on the UN’s! Just search for PCFV at www.lead.org.au or www.leadsafeworld.com eg Celebrating the End of the Leaded Petrol Era in LEAD Action News v21n3.
LEAPP Alliance co-founded by Tim Pye and Dr Simon Reddy in the United Kingdom. Ever since Tim Pye contacted The LEAD Group in October 2016, The LEAD Group has partnered with Tim as he learned about the dangers of lead exposure while doing DIY. Tim used his scientific background in ecological research and clinical trials to understand lead-safe working, testing and cleaning, conditions caused by lead, sources of lead exposure, etc and through networking and brilliant advocacy for Lead Safety in the UK and beyond, Tim and Simon and others founded the LEAPP Alliance – Lead Exposure and Poisoning Prevention Alliance – a joint initiative of the Lead Containing Materials Association, Lead In The Water and Lead Safe World UK.
Mudgee Region Health Alliance is an alliance of medicos, vets, nurses and scientists all supporting the fight against Bowdens Lead mine. Mudgee Region Action Group (formerly Lue Action Group) was formed in 2011 to ensure development proposed for the region is undertaken responsibly, and in a way that protects the community and the environment. Mudgee Region Action Group (MRAG) is opposed to the Bowdens Silver Pty Ltd proposal for the development of lead zinc and silver mine at Lue, on the basis that the mine would have unacceptable impacts on the Mudgee, Rylstone, Kandos and Lue communities, people and surrounding environment in the short, medium and long term. Please support the work of these Mudgee Region groups by signing the petition at https://www.change.org/p/help-stop-bowden-s-toxic-lead-mine and sharing the link on Social Media.
InformEd blog, by Open Colleges, based in Australia but with Outreach Specialists in the Philippines, etc. InformED is a blog about all things education. The blog helps educators stay up to date with the latest education technology, join the conversations in pedagogy and understand the psychology of a developing mind. Open Colleges runs numerous online courses such as and the InformEd blog helps educators by compiling information such as “50 Non-Profit Organizations That Educate People In Need”
Dr Cory Couillard is an international health columnist who works in collaboration with the World Health Organization’s goals of disease prevention and global health care education. For the Inaugural International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week of Action (20-26th October 2013) – an initiative of WHO and UNEP, Dr Couillard’s article “Save children from lead poisoning” was published in news or medical news publications in Ghana, Panama, the Caribbean, Dominican Republic, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Ethiopia, St Kitts and Nevis, (including on their Sugar City FM radio station website) AND Nigeria. Dr Couillard is well-followed on Facebook with 24K likes, and you can follow him on Twitter.
The LEAD Group is a partner of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, a public-private initiative led by the United Nations Foundation to save lives, improve livelihoods, empower women and protect the environment by creating a thriving global market for clean cooking solutions. Learn more at www.cleancookstoves.org where you’ll find our files on cookstove fuels and lead risks:
What else might be in your Ceiling Dust? – toxic radioactive and heavy metal particulate pollution from coal-burning emissions fallout;
“Green Lead”: oxymoron or future vision? – the cheapest solar energy storage is lead acid batteries, but is lead really “green”?
Lead acid battery recycling in Bangladesh – only expensive large-scale lead acid battery recycling can make solar energy storage sustainable;
Fine particulates & lead in woodsmoke – health risks of wood as fuel.
ASBB – Australasian Society of Building Biologists – is a professional body founded in 2007 and serving as a platform to educate the public, businesses, health practitioners and government bodies about Building Biology and the precautionary principles which govern it. Building Biology is a science using evidence-based information and testing to assess the relationship between the occupants and the built environment. Building Biologists are qualified professionals trained to identify health hazards in buildings, by assessing indoor air quality, lead and other heavy metals, mould and moisture problems, electromagnetic fields and drinking water quality. Building Biologists advocate for the right of all individuals to live and work in a healthy environment.