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Asbestos products may have been used in construction
of your home. You can identify possible asbestos containing
products using the Asbestos
Home Identification Pak.
When asbestos products have been identified - you will
be confronted with maintenancece or small "make
safe" jobs in and around your home. You may also
face an emergency situation through accidental damage.
When you have completed basic training in Asbestos
Awareness and the How
To Do It Instruction Guides course - you can do
a number of small jobs yourself. These jobs involve
working safely with non-friable asbestos materials and
include:
- Initiating an emergency procedure.
- Drilling or Cutting Holes in Asbestos Sheeting
- Making safe cracks or exposed edges to Asbestos
sheet
- Cleaning up Asbestos sheet debris
- Lifting & removing small quantities of Asbestos
containing floor materials
- Removal of fence panels, eaves or wall lining
Even with training there are some jobs that you should
not do and should seek professional advice.. These include:
- Any job that you assess is outside the instruction
guidelines we have provided.
- Any job that you are not sure of and consider is
more that you ant to do.
- Any job that involves friable Asbestos
we recommend you engage a fully licensed
Asbestos Removalist
Can anyone remove and transport asbestos containing
material?
The Asbestos regulations introduced, apply to commercial
Asbestos work - that is:
- Any one who intends to charge you to remove more
than 10 m2 of Non-Friable Asbestos containing material.
(A Restricted Asbestos Removal License
is required)
- Any one who intends to charge you to remove Friable
Asbestos material.
(We recommend you engage a contractor with a
Full (unrestricted)
Asbestos Removal License )
- Any Trades person can remove up to 10m2 of Non-Friable
Asbestos containing material without an Asbestos license,
but
they must do so in accordance with the Regulations
and
Codes of Practice. (They need a BLUE CARD)
A home owner can remove and transport any amount of
asbestos containing material as the "home"
is not recognised as a "workplace" under the
Act - providing no payment is made to any person or
organisation for this service.
If you need to work with Asbestos We Recommend
you refer to the OHS&W regulations, EPA
requirements that may apply in you area - and
We recommend that anybody working on or
removing asbestos products are trained to do so in accordance
with the National Code of Practice and consult with
their local government authorities - they have a completed
the How To Do It Instruction Guides training or hold
a current BLUE CARD.
If you would like to know more about working with asbestos
please view our FREE online presentation by clicking
this link Asbestos
Awareness and Health Effects.
If you work in a building built prior to 1987, Asbestos
may have been used in its construction. You are entitled
to see the Asbestos Register. If you have not been inducted
on Asbestos in your workplace - talk with your Asbestos
Register Controller about training. Follow the link
for training that is available on the
Blue Card.
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