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WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY (NATIONAL UNIFORM LEGISLATION) REGULATIONS 2011
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483 Decontamination facilities
(1) A person conducting a business or undertaking for which
asbestos-related work is carried out must ensure that facilities are
available to decontaminate the following:
(a) the asbestos-related work area;
(b) any plant used in the asbestos-related work area;
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(c) workers carrying out the asbestos-related work.
(2) The person must ensure that nothing that is likely to be
contaminated with asbestos is removed from the asbestos-related
work area unless the thing:
(a) is decontaminated before being removed; or
(b) is sealed in a container, and the exterior of the container is:
(i) decontaminated; and
(ii) labelled in accordance with the GHS to indicate the
presence of asbestos;
before being removed.