Air sampling

Ladra has Licenced Asbestos Assessors and and are able to undertake all types of air sampling.

Air sampling pumpThe Asbestos Regulations state in Clause 43 that:

43 Air monitoring for Class A asbestos removal work

1)  A PCBU who commissions Class A asbestos removal work at a workplace must ensure that an independent licensed asbestos assessor undertakes air monitoring of the asbestos removal area at the workplace in accordance with subclause (3).

2)  If the workplace is a home, the licensed removalist carrying out Class A asbestos removal work at the home must ensure that an independent licensed asbestos assessor undertakes air monitoring of the asbestos removal area at the home in accordance with subclause (3).

 

Air monitoring slide with high fibre reading from a project that Ladra undertook the air monitoring on compressed

 

3)       The air monitoring must be carried out—

 (a)     immediately before the licensed asbestos removal work commences, if the assessor determines that it is likely that the air contains respirable asbestos fibres in a concentration greater than trace level; and

(b)     while the licensed asbestos removal work is carried out; and

(c)     in a place that is adjacent to any negative pressure enclosure."

In addtion to this no negative pressure enclosure can be taken down until air monitoring is undertaken inside to confirm that the air is safe to breathe,