New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2017 - REG 420

420 Exposure to airborne asbestos at workplace

(1) A person conducting a business or undertaking at a workplace must ensure that--

(a) exposure of a person at the workplace to airborne asbestos is eliminated so far as is reasonably practicable, and

(b) if it not reasonably practicable to eliminate exposure to airborne asbestos--exposure is minimised so far as is reasonably practicable.

Note : WHS Act--section 19 (see clause 9).

(2) A person conducting a business or undertaking at a workplace must ensure that the exposure standard for asbestos is not exceeded at the workplace.

: Maximum penalty--

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

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

(3) Subclauses (1)(a) and (2) do not apply in relation to an asbestos removal area--

(a) that is enclosed to prevent the release of respirable asbestos fibres in accordance with clause 477, and

(b) in which negative pressure is used in accordance with that clause.