Page 2878 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 22 November 1989

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necessary the risk of fibre release is real, particularly from weathered sheeting. It is in these circumstances that the building controller requires the stringent procedures documented in the National Occupational Health and Safety Commission guidelines on asbestos removal which ensures respiratory protection to the workers is provided.

While my department is reviewing the need to restrict the removal of unweathered sheeting within houses to only appropriately licensed contractors, there is no intention of allowing roof sheeting to be removed by other than licensed asbestos removalists. My department is monitoring Western Australia's evaluation of their asbestos cement sheeting problem. I might say the asbestos cement sheeting has been much more widely used in exposed conditions such as fencing and roofing in Western Australia than in the ACT. My department is not aware of the Western Australian Department of Mines evaluation of a new encapsulation process but I have asked that this report be obtained and evaluated for its applicability in the ACT as soon as possible.

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