Services / Asbestos Audits & Registers
Commercial asbestos audits & registers.
Workplace identification surveys, condition assessments, and Asbestos Register preparation for commercial properties across Brisbane, Ipswich and Logan — built to discharge a PCBU's obligations under the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld).
A-Class & B-Class Licensed · Fully Insured & Code-Compliant · NATA-Accredited Lab Partner · Brisbane, Ipswich and Logan
What an audit covers
- Walk-through inspection of every accessible area of the workplace
- Identification of all suspected ACM (visual + sample where required)
- Sample collection and NATA-lab analysis
- Condition rating for each identified item (good / fair / poor)
- Photographic record and location mapping
- Preparation or update of the written Asbestos Register
- Recommendations: leave in place, monitor, or remove
Output: a register your business can hand to any contractor, worker, or visitor on request — and a clean audit trail if a regulator ever asks.
📷 Audit walk-through — assessor documenting building services
Who needs one
- Commercial property owners — single-tenant retail, multi-tenancy offices, mixed-use buildings built before 2004.
- Body corporate / strata — common-area ACM identification for the register, sometimes triggered by an upcoming refurb.
- Industrial / warehouse operators — periodic re-audit on a 5-year cycle, or before major works.
- Schools, community facilities, government tenancies — formal compliance documentation.
Audits & registers — FAQs
Do I need an Asbestos Register for my commercial property? +
Yes — under the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld), the PCBU at a workplace must keep an Asbestos Register if the workplace was built before 31 December 2003, or if ACM is identified at the workplace. The register must be readily accessible to workers, contractors, and anyone else who may be exposed.
What's the difference between an audit and a register? +
The audit is the inspection and assessment activity — physically identifying every ACM item, recording condition, photographing, sampling, recording locations. The register is the document the audit feeds into; it's the ongoing record that must be kept current. You need both: the audit creates and maintains the register.
How often do audits need to be redone? +
Every five years is the typical cycle, plus whenever ACM is removed, disturbed, refurbished, or newly identified. Between full audits, periodic re-inspections check the condition of identified ACM hasn't deteriorated.
Can you work around tenants and trading hours? +
Yes. Most commercial audits are scheduled outside operating hours or staged room-by-room to avoid disrupting tenants. We coordinate access with property managers and body corporate.
Do you also write the Asbestos Management Plan? +
Yes — see our asbestos management plan service. The AMP and the register are paired documents required by WHS regulation, and it makes sense to have both prepared by the same inspector.
If the audit finds ACM that needs removing, can you do that? +
Yes. We hold both A-Class and B-Class removal licences, so anything the audit flags for removal can be scoped, removed, disposed of, and cleared by the same team — and the register and management plan updated to match. There's no obligation to use us for the removal; plenty of identified ACM is safe to manage in place, and the audit will say so where that's the case.
Talk through an audit
Tell us the building, age, current state of any existing register. We'll scope the audit on the call and confirm cost and timing in writing.
- ✓ Phone scope of building, age, and current register status
- ✓ Audit attendance scheduled around tenancy/trading hours
- ✓ Written register, sample results, and AMP recommendations on completion