Asbestos

Guidance

• Introduction to asbestos safety

  The dangers, locations, risk assessment, training, using a licensed contractor, the law

• Duty to manage asbestos in buildings

  What the dutyholder must do, including identifying asbestos, assessing risk and making a plan

• A worker’s guide to asbestos safety

  What you and your employer must do to protect you and others from exposure

• Asbestos essentials task sheets

  Task sheets for trades on how to safely carry out non-licensed work involving asbestos

• Locations of asbestos and taking the right action

  Images of asbestos in typical locations and actions needed to minimise exposure

• Licensable work with asbestos

  When work is licensable and advice for licensed contractors