482Air monitoring

482 Air monitoring ensure that a competent person carries out air monitoring of the work area where asbestos-related work is being carried out if there is uncertainty as to whether the exposure standard is likely to be exceeded.

Work Health and Safety (National Uniform Legislation) Regulations 2011 378 (2) If the competent person determines that the exposure standard has been exceeded at any time in a work area, the person conducting the business or undertaking must, so far as is reasonably practicable: (a) determine the workers and other persons who were in the work area during that time; and (b) warn those workers about possible exposure to respirable asbestos fibres; and (c) so far as is reasonably practicable, warn the other persons about possible exposure to respirable asbestos fibres. (3) The person conducting the business or undertaking must ensure that information about exposure to respirable asbestos fibres, including the determination made by the competent person and the results of the air monitoring, is readily accessible to the workers and other persons referred to in subregulation (2).