The UFUA Aviation Branch has issued a statement in response to the Commonwealth Government's legal action against 3M to recover costs associated with environmental PFAS contamination.
The Branch welcomes the action but notes it addresses only one of the 47 recommendations made by the Senate Select Committee on PFAS. The statement calls on the Commonwealth to extend the action to recover the costs of supporting affected firefighters, and reiterates the Branch's recommendations to the Select Committee, including a comprehensive ban on PFAS-containing firefighting foam, ratification of the Stockholm Convention chemicals, Medicare access to therapeutic plasma treatment for firefighters with elevated PFAS blood levels, and dedicated PFAS taskforces within WHS regulators.
See the PFAS campaign hub for the full record of the union's PFAS advocacy.
