The Asbestos Safety and Eradication Agency (ASEA) commissioned UTS: The Centre for Local Government (UTS:CLG) to identify and evaluate the effectiveness of current local government asbestos safety initiatives including the use of local government asbestos management policies.
This document is a summary of the UTS:CLG report which presents the findings of research into the current role of local governments in improving residential asbestos safety and the opportunities for local governments to further address some of the challenges around asbestos safety that exist in the residential sector.