Consultation opens Monday 1 September 2025 and closes on Friday 12 September 2025.

This draft guidance document is part of a range of asbestos-related guidance currently under development.

Find out more about our work to update asbestos guidance: stages of asbestos guidance development

Consultation documents

The draft asbestos-related guidance document:

Please use our submission feedback form to provide your feedback:

Send your completed submission form to: guidanceandeducationdevelopment@worksafe.govt.nz 

Please note

• This draft does not necessarily present WorkSafe’s final position on the information contained within it.
• The current Approved Code of Practice: Management and removal of asbestos remains the primary point of reference for enforceable good practice in asbestos management and removal.

Stages for asbestos guidance development

There are three stages for the development of a wider suite of asbestos-related guidance. These guidelines are being developed as part of the third stage

Stage one (published in 2024)

• Asbestos in New Zealand – information for businesses, workers, and others
• Asbestos in the home – information for homeowners
• Protective clothing and equipment for working with asbestos – guidance for PCBUs
• Managing asbestos in your building or workplace – good practice guidance for PCBUs

Stage two (to be published November 2025)

• Good practice guidance for asbestos assessors
• Good practice guidance for asbestos surveyors
• Good practice guidance for asbestos removalists

Stage three (to be published November 2025)

• Working with or near asbestos – good practice guidelines for tradespeople who do asbestos-related work (the guide now being consulted on)
• Working with or near asbestos: Information sheets for tradespeople on specific safe work practices
• Unlicensed asbestos removal: Information sheets for specific safe work practices (for removing less than 10m² of non-friable asbestos)
• Asbestos identification awareness posters for trades

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