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demolished, ensure there is a procedure to reduce the risk of the exposure to asbestos to below the exposure standard and notify the regulator about the emergency.

In some cases, there may be more than one person with management or control of a workplace. For example:
    * a person with management of a workplace is a tenant
    * a person with control of a workplace has the power to make decisions and changes to the structure and use of the workplace. This person will usually be the owner of the workplace or a representative of the owner and may:
       * own the workplace and engage workers to carry out work there
       * own the workplace but lease it to another person conducting a business or undertaking at the workplace
       * have management or control over the workplace, for example a property management group or agent.

1.3         The meaning of key terms
Airborne asbestos means any fibres of asbestos small enough to be made airborne. For the purposes of monitoring airborne asbestos fibres, only respirable fibres are counted.
Asbestos means the asbestiform varieties of mineral silicates belonging to the serpentine or amphibole groups of rock-forming minerals, including actinolite asbestos, grunerite (or amosite) asbestos (brown), anthophyllite asbestos, chrysotile asbestos (white), crocidolite asbestos (blue) and tremolite asbestos.
Asbestos containing material (ACM) means any material or thing that, as part of its design, contains asbestos.
Asbestos-contaminated dust or debris (ACD) means dust or debris that has settled within a workplace and is (or assumed to be) contaminated with asbestos.
Asbestos-related work means work involving asbestos (other than asbestos removal work to which Part 8.7 of the WHS Regulations applies) that is permitted under the exceptions set out in regulation 419(3), (4) and (5).
Asbestos removalist means a person conducting a business or undertaking who carries out asbestos removal work.
Asbestos removal work means:
    * work involving the removal of asbestos or ACM
    * Class A asbestos removal work or Class B asbestos removal work as outlined in Part 8.10 of the WHS Regulations.
Competent person means a person who has acquired, through training, qualification or experience, the knowledge and skills to carry out the task.
Exposure standard for asbestos is a respirable fibre level of 0.1 fibres/ml of air measured in a person's breathing zone and expressed as a time weighted average fibre concentration calculated over an eight-hour working day and measured over a minimum period of four hours in accordance with:
    * the Membrane Filter Method
    * a method determined by the relevant regulator.
Friable asbestos means material that is in a powder form or that can be crumbled, pulverised or reduced to a powder by hand pressure when dry, and contains asbestos.