Regulation 28 Additional provisions in the case of exceptions and exemptions

(1)

Where under an exemption granted pursuant to regulation 29 or regulation 30 asbestos is used in a work process or is produced by a work process, the employer must ensure that the quantity of asbestos and materials containing asbestos at the premises where the work is carried out is reduced to as low a level as is reasonably practicable.

(2)

Subject to paragraph (3), where under an exemption granted pursuant to regulation 29 or regulation 30 a manufacturing process which gives rise to asbestos dust is carried out in a building, the employer must ensure that any part of the building in which the process is carried out is—

(a)

so designed and constructed as to facilitate cleaning; and

(b)

is equipped with an adequate and suitable vacuum cleaning system which must, where reasonably practicable, be a fixed system.

(3)

Paragraph (2)(a) does not apply to a building in which, prior to 1st March 1988, there was carried out a process to which either—

(a)

as then in force, regulation 13 of the Asbestos Regulations 1969 M1 applied and the process was carried out in compliance with that regulation; or

(b)

that regulation did not apply.

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1: S.I. 1969/690 revoked by S.I. 1987/2115.