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WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY (NATIONAL UNIFORM LEGISLATION) REGULATIONS 2011
484Disposing of asbestos waste and contaminated personal
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484 Disposing of asbestos waste and contaminated personal
protective equipment
(1) Subject to subregulation (2), a person conducting a business or
undertaking for which asbestos-related work is carried out must
ensure that asbestos waste:
(a) is contained and labelled in accordance with the GHS before
the waste is removed from an asbestos-related work area; and
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(b) is disposed of as soon as practicable at a site authorised to
accept asbestos waste.
(2) The person must ensure that personal protective equipment used in
asbestos-related work and contaminated with asbestos:
(a) is sealed in a container, and that the exterior of the container
is decontaminated and labelled in accordance with the GHS to
indicate the presence of asbestos before being removed; and
completion of the asbestos-related work at a site authorised to
accept asbestos waste; and
(i) is laundered at a laundry equipped to launder
asbestos-contaminated clothing; or
(ii) if it is not practicable to launder the clothing, is kept in
the sealed container until it is reused for the purposes of
asbestos-related work; and
(i) is decontaminated before it is removed from the
asbestos removal area; or
the asbestos removal area, is kept in the sealed
container until it is reused for the purposes of
asbestos-related work.
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(3) The person must ensure that a sealed container referred to in
subregulation (2) is decontaminated and labelled in accordance
with the GHS to indicate the presence of asbestos before being
removed from the asbestos-related work area.
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