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This guide contains important steps you should follow to reduce the risk of exposing yourself and others to asbestos fibres when undertaking removal of less than 10m² of non-friable asbestos.

The National Asbestos Profile combines information on regulations, importation and consumption, risks, exposed workers, burden of disease, incidence of lung cancers and mesothelioma, economic losses, and major epidemiological studies.

Asbestos Safety and Eradication Agency Portfolio Budget Statement 2017–18.

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.

This report contains multiple case studies on asbestos management and removal from contaminated land. They provide best practice examples of effective and safe approaches to asbestos management.

The case studies on asbestos management and removal from the built environment provide best practice examples of effective and safe approaches to asbestos management. The case studies present a number of key findings which illustrate the importance of careful planning, flexibility, effective communication, innovative thinking and building a business case which goes beyond a simple cost benefit analysis.

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. 

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. 

The case studies in this report examine six cases of rehabilitation of asbestos cement water and sewerage pipes in Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia, and identifies best practice for safe and effective management and removal.

The agency commissioned Swinburne University in Melbourne to undertake an evidence-based literature review on the provision of asbestos support services in Australia. The work sought to map support and services for people with asbestos-related diseases.