247Emergency procedures

247  Emergency procedures

(1) If an emergency occurs at a workplace where asbestos was present in a building, structure, ship or plant immediately before the emergency occurred, the person who manages or controls the workplace must—

(a) consider the asbestos register; and

(b) before demolition occurs, document a procedure that will reduce the risk of exposure of employees and persons in the vicinity of the demolition site to asbestos to below the asbestos exposure standard so far as is reasonably practicable.

2 See regulation 240(3) for meaning of emergency.

(2) Subregulation (1) does not apply in the case of domestic premises.

(3) A person engaged for the purpose of asbestos removal work as part of an emergency must comply, so far as is reasonably practicable, with Division 7.

2 A person engaged under this subregulation must hold an asbestos removal licence that permits the person to remove the asbestos or be employed by a person who holds such a licence (see regulation 214) or be permitted to remove the asbestos under regulation 250.

(4) If an emergency occurs at domestic premises where asbestos was present in a building, structure, ship or plant immediately before the emergency occurred, an employer or self‑employed person performing demolition work at the premises must, before demolition, document a procedure that will reduce the risk of exposure of employees and persons in the vicinity of the demolition site to asbestos to below the asbestos exposure standard so far as is reasonably practicable.