Work Health and Safety (General) Regulations 2022
Part 8Asbestos
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Chapter 8 — Asbestos
Part 8.1 — Prohibitions and authorised conduct
- Work involving asbestos or ACM: prohibitions and exceptions 385
Part 8.2 — General duty
- Exposure to airborne asbestos at workplace 387
Part 8.3 — Management of asbestos and associated risks
- Application of Part 387
421A. Regulator may direct tests for, or removal of, asbestos at workplace 388
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Asbestos to be identified or assumed at workplace 388
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Analysis of sample 389
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Presence and location of asbestos to be indicated 389
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Asbestos register 390
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Review of asbestos register 391
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Access to asbestos register 392
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Transfer of asbestos register by person relinquishing management or control 392
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Asbestos management plan 393
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Review of asbestos management plan 394
Part 8.4 — Management of naturally occurring asbestos
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Naturally occurring asbestos 395
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Asbestos management plan 396
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Review of asbestos management plan 397
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Training in relation to naturally occurring asbestos 398
Part 8.5 — Asbestos at the workplace
Division 1 — Health monitoring
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Duty to provide health monitoring 398
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Duty to ensure that appropriate health monitoring is provided 399
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Duty to ensure health monitoring is supervised by registered medical practitioner with relevant experience 399
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Duty to pay costs of health monitoring 400
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Information that must be provided to registered medical practitioner 401
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Duty to obtain health monitoring report 401
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Duty to give health monitoring report to worker 402
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Duty to give health monitoring report to regulator 402
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Duty to give health monitoring report to relevant persons conducting businesses or undertakings 403
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Health monitoring records 403