New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2017 - REG 419

419 Work involving asbestos or ACM--prohibitions and exceptions

(1) A person conducting a business or undertaking must not carry out, or direct or allow a worker to carry out, work involving asbestos.

: Maximum penalty--

(a) in the case of an individual--70 penalty units, or

(b) in the case of a body corporate--345 penalty units.

(2) In this clause, work
"involves" asbestos if the work involves manufacturing, supplying, transporting, storing, removing, using, installing, handling, treating, disposing of or disturbing asbestos or ACM.

(3) Subclause (1) does not apply if the work involving asbestos is any of the following--

(a) genuine research and analysis,

(b) sampling and identification in accordance with this Regulation,

(c) maintenance of, or service work on, non-friable asbestos or ACM, fixed or installed before 31 December 2003, in accordance with this Regulation,

(d) removal or disposal of asbestos or ACM, including demolition, in accordance with this Regulation,

(e) the transport and disposal of asbestos or asbestos waste in accordance with the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 ,

(f) demonstrations, education or practical training in relation to asbestos or ACM,

(g) display, or preparation or maintenance for display, of an artefact or thing that is, or includes, asbestos or ACM,

(h) management in accordance with this Regulation of in situ asbestos that was installed or fixed before 31 December 2003,

(i) work that disturbs asbestos during mining operations that involve the extraction of, or exploration for, a mineral other than asbestos,

(j) laundering asbestos contaminated clothing in accordance with this Regulation.

(4) Subclause (1) does not apply if the regulator approves the method adopted for managing risk associated with asbestos.

(5) Subclause (1) does not apply to the following--

(a) soil that a competent person has determined--

(i) does not contain any visible ACM or friable asbestos, or

(ii) if friable asbestos is visible--does not contain more than trace levels of asbestos determined in accordance with AS 4964:2004 (Method for the qualitative identification of asbestos in bulk samples) ,

(b) naturally occurring asbestos managed in accordance with an asbestos management plan prepared under clause 432.