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WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY (NATIONAL UNIFORM LEGISLATION) REGULATIONS 2011
419Work involving asbestos or ACM – prohibitions and
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419 Work involving asbestos or ACM – prohibitions and
exceptions
(1) A person conducting a business or undertaking must not carry out,
or direct or allow a worker to carry out, work involving asbestos.
(2) In this regulation, work involves asbestos if the work involves
manufacturing, supplying, transporting, storing, removing, using,
installing, handling, treating, disposing of or disturbing asbestos or
ACM.
(3) Subregulation (1) does not apply if the work involving asbestos is
any of the following:
(a) genuine research and analysis;
(b) sampling and identification in accordance with these
(c) maintenance of, or service work on, non-friable asbestos or
ACM, fixed or installed before 31 December 2003, in
accordance with these Regulations;
(d) removal or disposal of asbestos or ACM, including demolition,
in accordance with these Regulations;
(e) the transport and disposal of asbestos or asbestos waste in
accordance with the Waste Management and Pollution Control
Act 1998;
(f) demonstrations, education or practical training in relation to
asbestos or ACM;
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(g) display, or preparation or maintenance for display, of an
artefact or thing that is, or includes, asbestos or ACM;
(h) management in accordance with these Regulations of in situ
asbestos that was installed or fixed before 31 December 2003;
(i) work that disturbs asbestos during mining operations that
involve the extraction of, or exploration for, a mineral other
than asbestos;
(j) laundering asbestos contaminated clothing in accordance with
these Regulations.
(4) Subregulation (1) does not apply if the regulator approves the
method adopted for managing risk associated with asbestos.
(5) Subregulation (1) does not apply to the following:
(a) soil that a competent person has determined:
(i) does not contain any visible ACM or friable asbestos; or
(ii) if friable asbestos is visible – does not contain more than
trace levels of asbestos determined in accordance with
AS 4964:2004 (Method for the qualitative identification of
asbestos in bulk samples);
(b) naturally occurring asbestos managed in accordance with an
asbestos management plan prepared under regulation 432.