Asbestos checklist – for health and safety representatives

This checklist for health and safety representatives (HSRs) should be read in conjunction with the Guidance for health and safety representatives: asbestos.

This checklist is designed to assist HSRs ask questions to help understand if WHS requirements are being met in their workplace. The primary responsibility for ensuring a healthy and safe workplace rests with the person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU; e.g. your employer), and the person with management or control of the workplace (e.g. site manager). Managing the risk of asbestos is not the responsibility of an HSR. 

Supporting information

Safe Work Australia

• Guidance for health and safety representatives: asbestos
• Consultation - information on consultation and the role and function of HSRs
• Model Code of Practice: How to manage and control asbestos in the workplace
• Model Code of Practice: How to safely remove asbestos
• Asbestos registers at the workplace guide
• Airborne contaminants hub – includes information for workers on airborne contaminants and the workplace exposure standards/limits