The review explores the risk of exposure to asbestos following emergencies and natural disasters; disaster planning practices with regard to best-practice emergency management to ensure asbestos exposures do not occur in times of natural disasters. This review resulted in the development in-depth policy frameworks.

Extensive research and development was undertaken in the design and construction of a portable model house, ensuring it would be more than a moving billboard and become a world-first experiential communication tool. Purpose built, “Betty” the portable model house, demonstrates the many and various product types and locations where asbestos might be found in homes to educate homeowners about ACMs in homes, provide easily digestible information on safe practices, and engage stakeholders and media to drive traffic to the website.

In order to ensure that staff understand the risks of asbestos exposure and take safe work procedures seriously, Ergon Energy has invested considerable time and resources, and undertaken a highly collaborative approach to establishing best practice.

The strategic review discussion paper is to help the agency better understand how organisations are responding to the legislative requirements, what the attitudes of organisations are to the maintenance of registers, how they use asbestos registers and what their drivers are for responding in the way they do. It appeared that while some organisations are simply meeting the minimum standard to fulfil the regulatory requirements, others are going well beyond the minimum standard.