Register of asbestos-containing materials
Under the Workplace Health and Safety Regulation 2008 and the asbestos management code, owners of the following structures used as workplaces must keep an accurate register of asbestos-containing materials (ACM) -
- Buildings built under approvals given by local governments before 1 January 1990;
- Non-building structures where there is ACM fixed or installed, e.g. fixed plant.
Even if no asbestos is found, a register should still be kept which records this fact.
Part 9.3 of the asbestos management code (non-Queensland Government link) details the information that the register should contain. This includes:Identification
- dates of inspections
- location, type (i.e friable or bonded) and condition (damaged or intact) of identified asbestos
- details of materials presumed to contain asbestos
- inaccessible areas likely to contain asbestos
- any analysis results.
Risk assessment
- dates of risk assessments and details of the competent person that performed them
- findings and conclusions of risk assessments
- results of any air monitoring for airborne asbestos fibres.
Control measures
- the control measures resulting from a risk assessment
- details of any maintenance work or service on ACM.
The register is to be made readily accessible to:
- workers and their representatives
- any other employers within the premises
- any person removing ACM
- any person engaged to perform work that may disturb ACM
- any other person who might be exposed.
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