Who is responsible for supplying an asbestos register for a workplace / commercial property?
The owner of the property is in most cases responsible for supplying an asbestos register to the tenant of the property. It is a tenant’s responsibility to request that the owner supply an asbestos register and to familiarise themselves with it. The register must be supplied to any contractors working on the site.
Many commercial property owners, and surprisingly many commercial property agents, are unaware of this legal requirement. If an agent or owner refuses to supply an asbestos register, your fallback is to complain to Work Safe about the issue. Work Safe may visit the site and put an improvement notice on the property which will require the owner/agent to comply or face fines. Both owners and commercial property agents can be fined up to $30,000.00 for not complying with the requirement to obtain, maintain and supply to tenants an asbestos register for the property.