Asbestos Inspections Australia

ASBESTOS INSPECTIONS AUSTRALIA

Areas where asbestos is commonly found:

	AC Sheet	See cement sheet.
	Adhesives	Industrial adhesives commonly contained asbestos, usually chrysotile.
	Air conditioning duct insulation	Internal sections of duct work may be internally insulated within fire rated asbestos board.
	Air conditioning gussets	Made from woven chrysotile.
	Aprons	Made from woven chrysotile.
	Arc shields	Found on electrical switchboards. Made from moulded asbestos cement sheet. Also known as flash boards.
	Automotive body underseal	Bituminous sealants often contained asbestos. Usually chrysotile.
	Battery boxes	Battery boxes in older cars comprised of pitch, rubber and crocidolite.
	Bituminous membranes	Used as water proofing on rooftops and floors. Usually contains chrysotile, but sometimes amosite or crocidolite.
	Blackboards	Blackboards made from painted asbestos cement sheet.
	Blankets	Made from woven chrysotile or crocidolite, often containing internal loose fill asbestos insulation. Used for thermal insulation/protection of steam pipe valves/flanges and as fire insulation in penetrations.
	Boiler insulation	Large industrial boilers often containing sprayed asbestos insulation beneath outer metal cladding and as insulation on associated duct work. Smaller commercial boilers insulated with asbestos blocks or composite materials applied to the outer surface of the boiler and clad with calico or metal sheeting. Various other asbestos products associated with boilers including seals, gaskets, fire rated board etc.
	Bracket insulation	Sprayed asbestos applied to structural building brackets to provide fire insulation.
	Braid	Made from woven chrysotile.
	Brake and clutch linings	Resin impregnated asbestos braid used on all vehicles, lifts, industrial lifting equipment etc.
	Cable sheaths	Woven chrysotile sheath around electrical cables.
	Calorifier insulation	Provides thermal insulation to hot water calorifiers. Insulation generally contains amosite (brown asbestos), with an external cladding of calico or metal.
	Cement sheet	Asbestos cement sheet (also known as fibrocement or AC sheet) may contain chrysotile, amosite and/or crocidolite. Use of crocidolite ceased in the late 1960's. Later cement sheet products contained only chrysotile until its use ceased in the early to mid 1980's. Most commonly found as flat or corrugated sheeting, available profiles included shadowline, highline, coverline, ribline and striated. Wide range of applications including: eaves, roofing sheets, roof shingles, external and internal wall cladding, ceilings, underlay, guttering, downpipes, conduits, flues, water pipes, fences, ceramic tile backing, fish ponds, planter boxes, pots, phone box tops, switchboard linings, fire place linings, shower recesses, arc chutes, arc shields, underground pits.
	Cinema screens	Made from woven chrysotile.
	Cooling towers	Outer cladding and internal filler from asbestos cement sheet or internal plastic filler containing asbestos.
	Curtains	Made from woven chrysotile.
	Door seals	Seals of doors on ovens, fire proof cabinets, furnaces, boilers etc made from chrysotile.
	Durabestos & Durawall	Asbestos cement sheet products manufactured in Australia by Wunderlich.
	Electrical appliances	Insulations of various appliances including irons, hair dryers, TV sets, projectors. toasters etc.
	Electrical conduits	Moulded asbestos cement sheet.
	Exhaust pipe insulation	Exhaust pipes from engines such as generators found within buildings were often insulated within asbestos, similar to that found on hot water and steam pipes.
	Fake brick cladding	See cement sheet. Fake bricks attached to asbestos cement sheet backing. Used for external cladding of houses.
	Fibrocement	See cement sheet.
	Fibrolite	Asbestos cement sheet manufactured by James Hardie in Australia.
	Filter materials	Used in both powdered form and as a filter paper, asbestos was utilised in the beverage and food manufacturing industries for product filtering, within gas masks and in HEPA filters.
	Fire blankets	Made from woven chrysotile.
	Fire curtains	Made from woven chrysotile, used for fire protection in theatres between the stage and seating area.
	Fire door insulation	Central core of doors, containing one, two or three layers of asbestos fire rated board. Some hollow metal doors internally lined with millboard.
	Fire rated board	Medium density asbestos board with a variety of uses including fire door insulation, fire walls, fume cupboard lining etc.
	Fire stop insulation	Either a woven asbestos bag containing loose fill asbestos insulation or a composite asbestos mix, used to fire proof penetrations.
	Fishponds	Constructed from moulded asbestos cement sheet.
	Flowerpots	Constructed from moulded asbestos cement sheet.
	Flues	Asbestos cement flues on heaters, hot water services, sanitary napkin incinerettes.
	Fume cupboards	Walls, benchtop and/or baffle plates made from asbestos cement sheet or fire rated board.
	Fuse blankets	Small pieces of woven asbestos braid used to stop arcing in high voltage ceramic fuse blocks.
	Furnace insulation	Internal walls of industrial furnaces lined with fire rated asbestos board.
	Galbestos	Galvanised iron sheets with a coating of chrysotile on each side, covered by a coating of paint or bitumen. Available in flat, corrugated and other profiles. Manufactured from the 1950's through to the 1970's.
	Gaskets	Gaskets for flanges commonly contain chrysotile.
	Gauss mats	Asbestos impregnated wire mats used in laboratory applications.
	Gloves	Made from woven chrysotile.
	Hats	Made from woven chrysotile.
	Heat banks	Asbestos containing insulation blocks or millboard used in some brands of both domestic and commercial electric heat banks up until the early 1980's. Brand names included Potteron, Auto-hot and Kleenheat.
	Ironing board covers	Made from woven asbestos.
	Laboratory benchtops	Made from compressed asbestos cement sheet.
	Laboratory mats	Commonly found in school laboratories under Bunsen burners. Made from asbestos cement sheet or fire rated asbestos board.
	Laminates	Containing a thin layer of asbestos paper beneath the outer decorative coating. Used extensively in ship building and in high temperature applications.
	Lift doors	Internal core often containing asbestos insulation.
	Light fittings	Light fittings may contain asbestos cable sheathing or millboard seals.
	Limpet	"Limpet" asbestos is a trade name used by J.W. Roberts Limited to market sprayed asbestos insulation. The "Limpet" process included sprayed amosite, chrysotile and crocidolite.
	Limpet board	Perforated "peg board" containing asbestos. Main application was to cover sprayed limpet asbestos, although was also used to cover synthetic mineral fibre insulation batts or blankets to provide a fire rating.
	Marinite	A fire rated asbestos board used in ship building.
	Mattresses	Made from woven chrysotile cloth, often with internal loose asbestos fill. Used to cover pipe flanges, diesel power generator exhaust pipes etc.
	Millboard	A soft asbestos containing cardboard like material. Normally containing chrysotile, but occasionally contains amosite and crocidolite. Many uses as a thermal and electrical insulator.
	Monocote	Sprayed asbestos insulation containing a small percentage of chrysotile.
	Mortar	Asbestos often added to mortar.
	Oven insulation	Internal lining of fire rated board and woven asbestos seals.
	Packing materials	Asbestos packing within valves and stopcocks. Usually chrysotile.
	Paints	Asbestos used in various industrial paints (e.g. high build epoxy paints).
	Pipe insulation	Provide thermal insulation to steam and hot water pipes. The most commonly encountered insulation installed as preformed sections containing amosite (brown asbestos), with an external cladding of calico or metal sheathing. Small diameter pipes may also be insulated by wrapping strips of flexible asbestos containing board.
	Pipes	Asbestos cement pipes used for fresh water supply, stormwater and sewerage systems.
	Plaster cornice adhesive	Mostly contained chrysotile, but sometimes amosite.
	Plastics	Asbestos was incorporated as a filler material in many common plastic polymers such as PVC, polypropylene and nylon.
	Proximity suits	Woven chrysotile full body suits used by fire fighters. The more modern suits are internally lines with non-asbestos fabric, with the external surface sealed with an aluminium coating to assist in reflection heat.
	Re-heat box insulation	Fire rated asbestos board within re-heat boxes of air conditioning systems.
	Render	Asbestos often added to cement based renders.
	Roadway pits	Constructed of moulded asbestos cement.
	Rope	Generally made from chrysotile, but sometimes crocidolite. May also contain amosite.
	Screeds	Floor leveling screeds often contained asbestos.
	Shadowline	Moulded asbestos cement sheeting.
	Shotgun shell wads	Packed with white asbestos.
	Silbestos	Sprayed asbestos insulation utilising crocidolite from the Wittenoom mine.
	Socks	Made from woven chrysotile. Reported to cure corns and bunions.
	Spackle	Asbestos present mainly in the top-coat.
	Sprayed insulation	Sprayed asbestos insulation was used for fire protection, thermal insulation, condensation control and acoustic insulation. Various trade names for sprayed asbestos insulation included Limpet (amosite, chrysotile or crocidolite), Asbestospray, Cafco, Silbestos (crocidolite) and Monokote (chrysotile).
	Steriliser insulation	Asbestos blocks or composite materials applied to the outer surface of the steriliser unit and clad with calico or metal sheeting.
	String	Composed of chrysotile or crocidolite. Applications include windings on welding electrodes and thread for sewing together various asbestos textile products.
	Steam engine insulation	Boiler units of steam locomotives insulated with asbestos blankets and various asbestos products.
	Super Six	Corrugated asbestos cement sheet. Manufactured by Hardies.
	Switchboards	Older black electrical switchboards manufactured from coal tar pitch and asbestos (usually chrysotile). Brand names include "zelemite" and "miscolite".
	Talc	Asbestos (usually tremolite or anthophyllite) can be found as a natural contaminant in talc.
	Tasbestos	Asbestos cement sheet manufactured by Goliath Portland Cement Co. in Australia.
	Telecommunications pits	Underground pits made from moulded asbestos cement sheet.
	Telephone boxes	The dome top on the old red phone boxes was made from moulded asbestos cement sheet.
	Textiles	Various products made from woven chrysotile or crocidolite.
	Tilux	Laminated flat asbestos cement sheet with various decorative pattern designs. General used in wet areas such as shower recesses, bathrooms and kitchens.
	Underlay	Asbestos millboard or cement sheet used as underlay to vinyl flooring and cement sheet used as underlay to ceramic floor tiles.
	Vermiculite	Asbestos (usually tremolite) can be found as a natural contaminant in vermiculite.
	Vinyl floor tiles	Chrysotile asbestos used in vinyl tiles until about 1985. Older tiles contained up to 28% asbestos, while the tiles manufactured in the 1980's contained 8% asbestos.
	Vinyl floor sheeting	Asbestos millboard/paper sheeting used as backing to upper layer of non asbestos vinyl sheeting.
	Weatherboards	Woodgrain textured asbestos cement sheet weatherboards.
	Welding blankets	Made from woven chrysotile.
	Welding rods	Welding rods were wrapped with asbestos string. Chrysotile and/or crocidolite.
	White asbestos	See chrysotile.
	Window seals	White asbestos braid used as seals within window frames. Usually associated with asbestos cement sheet clad roofs (e.g. skylights associated with sawtooth roofs).
	Zelemite	See switchboards.

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