Asbestos-related work

A person conducting a business or undertaking at a workplace must ensure that a competent person carries out air monitoring of the work area where asbestos-related work is being carried out if there is uncertainty as to whether the exposure standard is likely to be exceeded.

If the competent person determines that the exposure standard has been exceeded at any time in a work area, the person conducting the business or undertaking must, so far as is reasonably practicable — (a) determine the workers and other persons who were in the work area during that time: and (b) warn those workers…

The person conducting the business or undertaking must ensure that information about exposure to respirable asbestos fibres, including the determination made by the competent person and the results of the air monitoring, is readily accessible to the workers and other persons referred to in subregulation (2).

A person conducting a business or undertaking for which asbestos-related work is carried out must ensure that facilities are available to decontaminate the following — (a) the asbestos-related work area; (b) any plant used in the asbestos-related work area; (c) workers carrying out the asbestos-related work.

The person must ensure that nothing that is likely to be contaminated with asbestos is removed from the asbestos-related work area unless the thing — (a) is decontaminated before being removed; or (b) is sealed in a container, and the exterior of the container is, before being removed — (i) decontaminated; and (ii) labelled in…

Subject to subregulation (2), a person conducting a business or undertaking for which asbestos-related work is carried out must ensure that asbestos waste — (a) is contained and labelled in accordance with Schedule 9 clause 8 before the waste is removed from an asbestos-related work area; and (b) is disposed of as soon as practicable…

The person must ensure that personal protective equipment used in asbestos-related work and contaminated with asbestos — (a) is sealed in a container, and that the exterior of the container is decontaminated and labelled in accordance with Schedule 9 clause 8 to indicate the presence of asbestos before being removed; and (b) so far as…

The person must ensure that a sealed container referred to in subregulation (2) is decontaminated and labelled in accordance with Schedule 9 clause 8 to indicate the presence of asbestos before being removed from the asbestos-related work area.