Page 2045 - Week 05 - Thursday, 3 May 2012
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services in the ACT. The Registrar is employed within the Environment and Sustainable Development Directorate.
The ESDD has a building audit team, whose function is to audit the work of licensed building certifiers, who issue Building Approvals (BA’s) for all building work that requires an approval.
Where a building certifier issues a building approval involving the removal of asbestos the building certifier requires from the builder the submission of an Asbestos Management Plan for that building work.
The information collected by the building certifier is subject to an administrative check by the building audit team to ensure correct procedures that need to be followed have been identified by the building certifier in the building approval for the builder and the asbestos removalists.
(2) No specific audits are undertaken of licensed asbestos removers.
(3) Three cases meet these criteria. ESDD does not have access to WorkSafe complaints data.
(4) Four construction occupation licensees have had their licence suspended and had conditions imposed upon their license.
The conditions required licensees to undertake an approved asbestos identification course. In addition, the licensees were required to provide written procedures for the licence holder to follow that met the requirements of asbestos identification to the Registrar,
One practitioner no longer holds an asbestos removalist licence and the issue of whether they should be able to hold an asbestos assessor licence is currently before ACAT.
(5) An administrative review over ACTPLA and ESDD’s past five years’ records has identified that the Ombudsman has only been involved in one asbestos related matter. There were no asbestos related recommendations raised at the completion of the investigation by the Ombudsman.
(6) Nil.
(7) Under Section 42A of the Building Act 2004 any building work which involves the handling of asbestos or disturbing friable asbestos is building work that requires a building approval.
There is an exemption under Building (General) Regulation 2008 Schedule 1 item 25 that permits certain construction related occupations to handle not more than 10m2 of bonded asbestos without building approval subject to holding a specific qualification and handling the asbestos in accordance with asbestos removal code.
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