Asbestos in the Workplace Surveys and Risk Assessments
Identifibre can assist your workplace to comply with the Victorian Occupational Health and Safety Regulations and the Australian Work Health and Safety (WHS) Regulations.
The regulations state “the person with management or control of a workplace must identify asbestos containing materials and produce an asbestos register, with details of the location, form, type and condition of the asbestos”.
The survey involves the physical inspection of the site, collection of material samples and consideration of other relevant information. A comprehensive report is provided with the following information:
- NATA accredited sample analysis results of material collected
- An asbestos and/or hazardous materials register
- Recommendations and priorities for control of hazards
- A risk assessment of the potential for exposure of personnel to airborne asbestos or other hazards
Should asbestos be identified or suspected, the person with management or control of the workplace must maintain and make available an asbestos register along with a management plan. The register must be reviewed and updated at least every 5 years.
Asbestos registers prepared by Identifibre comply with Division 5 Asbestos in Workplaces under the Occupational Health and Safety Regulations (VIC) 2017 and will include:
- Location of the asbestos
- Likely source of unfixed or uninstalled asbestos
- Type of asbestos containing materials
- Whether the asbestos is friable or non-friable
- Condition of the asbestos containing materials
- Whether the asbestos containing material is likely to be damaged or disturbed
- Details of all inaccessible areas likely to contain asbestos
- Detailed information about activities carried out in the workplace that are likely to disturb the asbestos
- Dates when the identification and risk assessments were done
Identifibre’s NATA accredited in-house laboratory provides a NATA accredited sample analysis report for all samples collected.