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Thanks for sharing this information. It is good to know people are being made aware of the dangers of asbestos.

One thing to add to this article (although we are based in the UK) is the fact that I personally have run ins with contractors on a weekly basis on the grey area which is pre-refurbishment asbestos surveys which are of course required under the UK control of asbestos regulations whenever a commercial property (or a property where there is a duty of care to adhere to) is to have major refurbishments, or as the HSE put it "fabric of the building is disturbed" I'm not sure if this applies in AU but I feel that asbestos does not differentiate between countries anyway! The area that needs clarification is where a contractor feels they are exempt from said survey as the work they are carrying out is in a non-domestic property and therefore a pre-refurb survey of the property prior to the works is not required, or so they believe! Unfortunately asbestos does not discriminate between domestic and non-domestic properties and the amount of callouts our company receives when "suspected" asbestos material has been disturbed in a domestic refurb is quite staggering. Hopefully the HSE will look at this situation and revise the guidelines to encompass this. I have found your article very informative and I link to it in our next newsletter where hopefully some others may pitch in at a later date.