A report, by the Centre for International Economics, looks at the direct health care costs, as well as the cost of productivity and other losses resulting from time out of the workforce due to an asbestos-related disease in one year (2015).

It estimated hospital and primary care costs to be $192 million per year, and indirect costs arising from time out of the workforce to be $321 million per year.

This factsheet summarises the 'Barriers, motivations and options for increasing asbestos removal in the residential and commercial sectors' report.

National Strategic Plan for Asbestos Management and Awareness 2015-16 Progress report summary.

This Progress Report highlights that the importance of cooperation to eliminate asbestos risks from our built environment. Working collaboratively with industry, employer and employee representatives, disease support groups and independent experts is critical to achieving the ambitious goals of the National Strategic Plan.

The aim of this study was to identify the current products and practices in use for containing and stabilising asbestos either to assist in the removal of asbestos-containing materials or to maintain the asbestos-containing materials in-situ. 

Trace amounts of asbestos have been detected in some brands of children’s crayons that have been imported into Australia. 

There is generally a lack of knowledge and awareness in the community about asbestos identification and its safe management in residential settings. The amount and condition of in situ asbestos containing materials remaining in Western Australian housing stock is not known. Therefore, the Western Australia Department of Health aimed to develop and validate a mobile application (‘app’) that can be used by householders, tradespeople and environmental health officers to screen the home for the presence of in situ asbestos.