Goods that might contain asbestos
Asbestos is still used in other countries outside Australia in a wide number of products because of its:
- flexibility
- tensile strength
- insulation
- chemical inertness and
- affordability.
The following goods may contain asbestos, or components with asbestos:
- Acoustic padding
- Asbestos bitumen products used to damp proof
- Asbestos rope
- Asbestos tape
- Bee smokers
- Brake linings, blocks or disc pads
- Cement flat sheeting or panels
- Descriptions may include: sandwich panels, cement panels, lightweight panels, cement fibre board, calcium silicate board, composite board, density board – uses include: roofing, flooring, ceiling and walls.
- Cement pipes, tubes or fittings
- Cement shingles or tiles (external or ceiling)
- Clutch linings
- Components of prefabricated housing
- Crayons
- Cut stone and stone chip products
- Diaphragms
- Ducts
- Electrical cloth and tapes
- Electrical panel partitioning
- Fire blankets
- Fire curtains
- Fire resistant building materials
- Friction materials for, or in, internal combustion and electric motor vehicles
- Furnaces
- Gas masks, and parts or components for gas masks
- Gaskets or seals
- Gloves
- Heat resistant sealing or caulking compounds
- Heating equipment
- Lagging and jointing materials
- Mastics, sealants, putties or adhesives
- Mineral samples for display or therapeutic purposes
- Mixtures containing phenol formaldehyde resin or cresylic formaldehyde resin
- Nut Plug products used for drilling fluids
- Pipe spools
- Portable acetylene cylinders
- Products containing certain types of talc
- Raw materials from mining activities
- Sheet vinyl backing
- Sheeting
- Textured paints or coatings
- Tiles
- Yarn and thread, cords and string, whether or not plaited.
See examples of
ABF asbestos detections.
