Gerry Tierney
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Comment on: Concern at asbestos in social housing
I work for the Department of Housing in Western Australia. We provide social housing for eligible Australians in a State that is 5 times bigger than the entire United Kingdom. We have managed to conduct Building Condition Inspections of all our properties constructed prior to 1990, some 15,000 dwellings, some of which are located in isolated and remote country. Following the inspections, we have managed to create an asbestos register and conduct a risk assessment for every single Social Housing dwelling in the State that are likely to contain asbestos building products. We have developed an Asbestos Management Plan that will see most asbestos building products in our dwellings replaced with non asbestos alternatives in the near future. If any of you readers would like to know more about our Asbestos Management Plan please visit our web site. www.housing.wa.gov.au.
