Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017
301Information to be provided to persons occupying premises in immediate and adjacent areas
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301 Information to be provided to persons occupying premises in immediate and adjacent areas
(1) An employer or self-employed person who is commissioned to perform work for a person and intends to perform limited asbestos removal work must, before the limited asbestos removal work commences, inform the person who commissioned the asbestos removal work about the proposed limited asbestos removal work.
(2) A person who commissions asbestos removal work or who has been informed of proposed limited asbestos removal work under subregulation (1) must before the work commences inform all employers and other persons occupying premises in the immediate and adjacent areas to where the work will take place about the work.
(3) An employer who has been informed about asbestos removal work in accordance with subregulation (2) must before the work commences inform employees in the immediate and adjacent areas to where the work will take place about the work.
(4) For the purposes of this regulation, the employer or self-employed person performing the asbestos removal work is the person who commissions the asbestos removal work if the work will be performed at domestic premises.