Victorian Consolidated Regulations

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS 2017 - REG 260

An employer or self-employed person performing limited asbestos removal work must ensure that asbestos waste is disposed of—

        (a)     as soon as reasonably possible; and

        (b)     in an appropriate manner that eliminates the release of airborne asbestos fibres; and

Reg. 260(c) substituted by S.R. No. 88/2021 reg. 10(1).

        (c)     at a place or premises authorised under the Environment Protection Act 2017 or regulations made under that Act to receive asbestos waste.

Notes

1     Act compliance—sections 21, 23 and 24 (see regulation 7).

Note 2 to reg. 260 substituted by S.R. No. 88/2021 reg. 10(2).

2     The transport of asbestos waste is regulated by the Environment Protection Authority.