EQUIPMENT

Its important to note that some persons carry out their own air monitoring and subsequently send the samples to a NATA Accredited Laboratory for fibre counting.

This is in breach of  the NATA requirements and the Victorian Asbestos Regulations 2007.

They (the person who carried out the monitoring and the lab) cannot issue a NATA endorsed test report which also complies with the requirements of the Victorian Asbestos Regulations 2007. 

Equipment and instruments used for the air monitoring such as the air monitoring pumps must have 'in current year' calibration labels attached. 

For the legal chain of custody of the samples and the records associated with those samples, the following must be complied with;

Asbestos air monitoring must (by law) only be carried out by a NATA Accredited laboratory, in compliance with the following;

• NATA Rules
• NATA Field Application Document
• SWA (former NOHSC) Guidance Notes 2005 
• Victorian OH&S Regulations 2007 
• WorkSafe Victoria - Removing Asbestos In Workplaces Compliance Code 2008
• WorkSafe Victoria - Managing Asbestos In Workplaces Compliance Codes 2008
• AS/IEC/ISO Laboratory Standard 17025 Quality Management System. 

Single use bar coded filter cassettes are used for a more efficient chain of custody, for the air monitoring samples and associated records.

The in lab images show below will be replaced soon with updated images from the new lab

Air Monitoring