South Australian Current Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS 2012 - REG 484

484—Disposing of asbestos waste and contaminated personal protective equipment

        (1)         Subject to subregulation (2), a person conducting a business or undertaking for which asbestos-related work is carried out must ensure that asbestos waste—

            (a)         is contained and labelled in accordance with the GHS before the waste is removed from an asbestos-related work area; and

            (b)         is disposed of as soon as practicable at a site authorised to accept asbestos waste.

Maximum penalty:

            (a)         In the case of an individual—$6 000.

            (b)         In the case of a body corporate—$30 000.

        (2)         The person must ensure that personal protective equipment used in asbestos-related work and contaminated with asbestos—

            (a)         is sealed in a container, and that the exterior of the container is decontaminated and labelled in accordance with the GHS to indicate the presence of asbestos before being removed; and

            (b)         so far as is reasonably practicable, is disposed of on the completion of the asbestos-related work at a site authorised to accept asbestos waste; and

            (c)         if it is not reasonably practicable to dispose of the personal protective equipment that is clothing—

                  (i)         in the case of clothing used by an emergency service organisation—is laundered by an organisation that supplies and maintains equipment for emergency service organisations; or

                  (ii)         in any other case or if it is not practicable to launder the clothing—is kept in the sealed container until it is re-used for the purposes of asbestos-related work; and

            (d)         if it is not reasonably practicable to dispose of the personal protective equipment that is not clothing—

                  (i)         is decontaminated before it is removed from the asbestos removal area; or

                  (ii)         if it is not practicable to decontaminate the equipment in the asbestos removal area, is kept in the sealed container until it is re-used for the purposes of asbestos-related work.

Maximum penalty:

            (a)         In the case of an individual—$6 000.

            (b)         In the case of a body corporate—$30 000.

Example—

Work boots.

        (3)         The person must ensure that a sealed container referred to in subregulation (2) is decontaminated and labelled in accordance with the GHS to indicate the presence of asbestos before being removed from the asbestos-related work area.

Maximum penalty:

            (a)         In the case of an individual—$6 000.

            (b)         In the case of a body corporate—$30 000.