Asbestos Management Plans

What is an asbestos management plan?

An asbestos management plan explains how identified or assumed asbestos will be managed at a workplace. It brings together information about the materials, decisions about their management, responsibilities and procedures for incidents or emergencies.

Accurate Consulting helps property owners and workplace managers prepare and update practical plans based on their buildings, activities and available survey information.

Discuss your asbestos management plan

Guidance: WorkSafe asbestos management plan and register templates.

What should you send us?

Provide your existing asbestos survey, register and management plan, together with details of any removal work, changes to the building or forthcoming projects. If information is incomplete, we can discuss the inspection or survey work needed.

Your proposal will identify the agreed deliverables, buildings covered, available information and any limitations. Discuss with us how the plan will be shared with staff and contractors, who will maintain it and how changes will be recorded.

A management plan and a removal control plan serve different purposes. The management plan addresses ongoing management of asbestos at the workplace; a removal control plan sets out arrangements for a particular removal job.

Why get an asbestos management plan drawn up by a consultancy?

If you have identified asbestos in your workplace, including in soil or naturally occurring asbestos, you must have an asbestos management plan in place. Even if asbestos testing turns up nothing, depending on your building or site, you may still require an asbestos management plan or testing results collaborated and documented to ensure you are on the right side of the asbestos regulations.

Managing asbestos in the workplace and buildings can be time consuming. You can do this yourself, but the prospect of doing so can mean hours of time, and for time-pressured managers, it doesn’t always make financial sense.

Choose a consultancy such as Accurate Consulting Ltd instead and benefit from the following:

1. Save on time and money – By having a single entity project managing the testing, detection, planning and removal of the contaminated material, you can save a significant amount of time and money.
2. Simplify processes – If you’re having to deal with multiple third parties then the overall picture can get messy, and also require a large logistical overhead. With one overarching plan created by a professional consultancy with your best interests in mind, you can simplify the process and reduce stress in the workplace.
3. Structure and accountability – In most cases, a management plan must be reviewed regularly (a regulatory minimum of every five years) to maintain its legal status. With a consultancy on your side, this is timetabled and taken care of on your behalf, with your agreement.
4. Clearcut emergency procedure – Should your staff need to halt operations due to asbestos discovery or disturbance, they will have an emergency asbestos action plan they can refer to and a process to follow.