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CABI Asbestos Testing and Audits Call NOW   0466 904 768 for asbestos advice.

CABI Inspectors extensive long term industry experience provides qualified advice on asbestos detection any suspicious unknown material can be if required have samples taken and sent for laboratory tests for confirmation obtained whether Asbestos has been used as a construction material.

Asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral rock that was mined in Australia and globally from the 1940s to late 1980s, asbestos was used as a fire resistent and binding material in a variety of products. Unlike other rocks made up of small particles, asbestos is made up of fibres so thin that they can be invisible to the unaided eye. If asbestos materials or products are disturbed, these fibres can be released into the air and remain for extended periods of time where they can be inhaled and lodge themselves into the deepest parts of the lungs.

External products that can contain asbestos:

  • • Eaves
  • • Fences
  • • Fire Safety & Protection Products
  • • Out Buildings
  • • Pipe Work
  • • Pipe Lagging
  • • Roofing & Shingles
  • • Electrical, Gas & Communication Covers, Boxes & Grates.
  • • Walls
  • • Window & Doorway Panels

  • Internal products that can contain asbestos:

  • • Ceilings
  • • Debris
  • • Floor Coverings & Backing
  • • Household Appliances & Fittings
  • • Electrical Cable Insulation
  • • Gas Heat Seals
  • • Walls
  • • Splash Panels in Bathrooms, Kitchens, Laundries.

  • Industrial products that can contain asbestos:

  • • Break Drums
  • • Cooling Towers
  • • Fire Surrounds
  • • Floor Penetrations
  • • Gaskets
  • • Pipe work
  • • Roofing
  • • Sealant
  • • Sprayed Asbestos

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What is Asbestos?

Asbestos is the generic term for a number of fibrous silicate minerals. Products made from asbestos cement - bonded asbestos material - include fibro sheeting (flat and corrugated) as well as water, drainage and flue pipes, roofing shingles and guttering.

Only fibro products made before 1987 contain asbestos. In NSW, for example, the use of asbestos was discontinued in fibro sheets by 1982, in corrugated sheets by 1984 and in all other products by 1986.

The manufacture and use of asbestos products was banned nationally from 31 December 2003.

Why is it dangerous?

How can asbestos affect my health?
Breathing in asbestos fibres can cause asbestosis, lung cancer and mesothelioma.

The risk of contracting these diseases increases with the number of fibres inhaled and the risk of lung cancer from inhaling asbestos fibres is also greater if you smoke.

People who get health problems from inhaling asbestos have usually been exposed to high levels of asbestos for a long time.

The symptoms of these diseases do not usually appear until about 20 to 30 years after the first exposure to asbestos.