Licensed Asbestos Removalists – Compliance Obligations and Health Monitoring Requirements

Businesses and Employers of Asbestos Removalists must provide all their asbestos removal workers, including, Asbestos Assessors with health monitoring.

ISOsafe, in partnership with its network can provide your Asbestos Removal and Disposal business with an end-to-end solution. We can develop a robust Work Health Safety Management System (that includes: SWMS for Asbestos Abatement and Removal, Proper Donning On and Off Procedures for PPE, etc.) to ensure your workers are safeguarded from the dangers of asbestos. To help your business also comply with its obligations under the Work Health and Safety (WHS) Regulation 2017 to provide your Staff a Safe Work Environment, can also arrange for Health Assessments and Monitoring to for your staff.

When working with Asbestos (or within the vicinity of Asbestos) small fibres are released into the air.

Disturbance of Asbestos can include: smashing, cutting, drilling, grinding, breaking, sanding or water blasting asbestos.

Workers exposed to Asbestos fibres, may contract asbestos-related diseases such as asbestosis, mesothelioma or lung cancer.

Employers obligations to Staff:

• advise your workers of the health risks of working with asbestos; and

• provide them with health monitoring by a registered medical professional.

Further, Employers and Businesses must provide a copy of a health monitoring report to SafeWork NSW when the report:

• contains advice that a worker may have contracted a disease, injury or illness, or

• recommends remedial measures.

Penalties apply for failure to notify SafeWork NSW of an adverse health monitoring report.

Is your Asbestos Removal business complying with its obligations under the Work Health and Safety (WHS) Regulation 2017? Don’t risk non-compliance, call ISOsafe today on 1300 789 132.