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Accurate asbestos reports are crucial for maintaining a safe environment and complying with regulations. For more information, click here.

Asbestos is a hazardous substance commonly found in older buildings and poses serious health risks when disturbed. Click for more info.

Asbestos, once widely known for its versatility and heat-resistant properties, is now recognised as a severe health hazard. Find out more.

Asbestos is a hazardous material commonly used in building construction, such as flooring, ceiling tiles, and pipe insulation. Click here.

When managing asbestos in buildings, surveys play a crucial role in documenting the presence of this hazardous material. Find out more here!

To ensure the safety of occupants and workers, regulations and guidelines have been established to manage and control asbestos materials.

Workers today and the general public are at risk of developing asbestos-related diseases. Click here to find out more.

Asbestos, a naturally occurring mineral once hailed for its versatility and fire-resistant properties, it is now a severe health hazard.

Asbestos is a hazardous substance commonly found in older buildings and poses serious health risks when disturbed. Click here for more info.

Australia contributed to the largest asbestos consumption in the world per capita before the mineral was banned entirely in 2003. Click here.

Asbestos is a dangerous material composed of silicate fibres that can lead to significant health risks being exposed for too long. Click here!

Asbestos air testing is a crucial process designed to measure and analyse the presence of airborne asbestos fibres in indoor and outdoor environments.

Asbestos is found in a wide array of materials categorised as Asbestos-Containing Materials (ACM), identified in today’s asbestos registers and widely spoken about in today’s workplace health and safety climate. But less commonly discussed is asbestos in soil. This certainly isn’t due to a lack of asbestos-contaminated soil but perhaps to the difficulty in identifying…

How can you legally tell someone that a building doesn’t contain any asbestos materials? You can’t. At least not verbally. But you can show this with an asbestos report prepared by a licenced asbestos assessor.

Asbestos is a hazardous mineral commonly used in a wide array of Australian materials until prohibition occurred on 31 December 2003.

Under the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2017 and the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation 2017, it’s a mandatory requirement that Australian workplaces built before 31 December 2003 conduct an asbestos survey.

An asbestos inspection is essential to determine the presence of asbestos materials, manage the associated risks in your workplace, and stay compliant with strict regulations in Australia.

Many PCBUs (persons conducting a business or undertaking) are unaware of their workplace health and safety duties regarding asbestos-risk management. Often the consensus is that an asbestos inspection is all that must be carried out to fulfil regulatory requirements, unaware that obtaining an asbestos report is only the first step towards a safe and compliant…

Asbestos was once a popular building material in Australia due to its fire-resistant and insulation properties. However, inhaling asbestos fibres can cause serious health problems, including lung cancer, mesothelioma, and asbestosis. All Australian workplaces are regulated by the Work Health and Safety (WHS) 2017 regulation and the Victorian Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) regulation to…