General and targeted awareness campaigns about asbestos, using license holder direct communication, social media and email formats.

Development, updating and communication of educational resources, focussing on:

• management of asbestos containing materials (ACM) in situ
• removal of ACM, and
• management of naturally occurring asbestos and contaminated sites.

• Safe by design – choose a safer material instead of high silica engineered stone
• Safe use of engineered stone in factory environment and on site
• Controlling silica in construction work – concrete cutting and wall chasing
• Dust management in assay laboratories
• Controlling silica in quarrying, crushing and screening activities.

Enforce compliance where ACM is handled unsafely or is unlawfully removed by an unlicensed PCBU.

Provide prompt and consistent customer
service (e.g. response to enquiries and complaints).

Conduct regular compliance checks on asbestos removal licence holders and licensed asbestos assessors.

As part of routine inspections, check that duty holders have an appropriate asbestos management plan (for in situ and naturally occurring asbestos).

Investigate reported exposure incidents to ensure adequate prevention measures have been implemented.

Enforce the WHS laws using the appropriate compliance tools, consistent with WorkSafe’s compliance and enforcement policy.

Regularly review compliance data and monitor trends.

Notified health monitoring reports indicating excessive silica exposure will be followed up by a site visit where practicable.

Once data is available via a national registry of dust diseases, notified diseases will be reviewed and site visits to the workplace where exposure occurred conducted where practicable.

Provide prompt and consistent customer service (e.g. response to enquiries and complaints).

Enforce the WHS laws using the appropriate compliance tools, consistent with WorkSafe’s compliance and enforcement policy.

Ensure WA suppliers of engineered stone are meeting labelling and safety data sheets requirements.

Require duty holders to conduct air monitoring on a risk basis. Inspectors will conduct a limited amount of air monitoring to verify industry data, to enable exposures to be well understood.

Encourage mine operators to continue to submit all sampling results into the mine worker exposure database and investigate exceedances.

Regularly review compliance data and monitor trends, with a focus on engineered stone and mining.

Conduct targeted inspections in industries with significant potential for nickel, lead or arsenic exposure.

Provide prompt and consistent customer service (e.g. response to enquiries and complaints).

Enforce the WHS laws using the appropriate compliance tools, consistent with WorkSafe’s compliance and enforcement policy.

Investigate notified biological exceedances of nickel, lead, arsenic or other toxic dusts.

Regularly review compliance data and monitor trends with respect to dusts of concern.
 

Continue collaboration with Local Government Authorities and state government agencies.

Deliver a Registered Medical Practitioners Forum on a regular basis.
Receive and provide information to professional associations, for example FAMANZ.

Provide periodic updates to stakeholders such as the WHS Commission, MPAC and CISAC.

Deliver a Registered Medical Practitioners Forum on a regular basis.

Deliver an educational webinar or forum for industry.

Receive and provide information to professional associations, for example the AIOH.

Provide periodic updates to stakeholders such as the WHS Commission, MPAC and CISAC.

Liaise with relevant industry associations.

Receive and provide information to professional associations, for example the AIOH.

Provide periodic updates to stakeholders such as the WHS Commission, MPAC and CISAC.

New inspector training session.

Inspector skills development session.

Promote interactions between asbestos specialists and industry teams within WorkSafe

Professional development opportunities for WorkSafe’s specialists.

Maintain equipment and skills to permit inspectorate to conduct verification of controls testing.

Commence developing an efficient system to permit submission of health monitoring reports to the regulator, review by the Inspectorate and monitoring of trends to inform compliance work.

New inspector training session.

Inspector skills development session.

Promote interactions between occupational hygiene specialists and industry teams within WorkSafe.

Professional development opportunities for WorkSafe’s specialists.

Maintain equipment and skills to permit inspectorate to conduct verification of controls testing.

Commence developing an efficient system to permit submission of health monitoring reports to the regulator, review by the Inspectorate and monitoring of trends to inform compliance work.

Information provided to inspectors based on team/directorate business needs.

Maintain equipment and skills to permit inspectorate to conduct verification of controls testing.

Commence developing an efficient system to permit submission of health monitoring reports to the regulator, review by the Inspectorate and monitoring of trends to inform compliance work.