PART 3Prohibitions and related provisions
Additional provisions in the case of exceptions and exemptions28
1
Where under an exemption granted pursuant to regulation 29 or regulation 30 asbestos is used in a work process or is produced by a work process, the employer must ensure that the quantity of asbestos and materials containing asbestos at the premises where the work is carried out is reduced to as low a level as is reasonably practicable.
2
Subject to paragraph (3), where under an exemption granted pursuant to regulation 29 or regulation 30 a manufacturing process which gives rise to asbestos dust is carried out in a building, the employer must ensure that any part of the building in which the process is carried out is—
a
so designed and constructed as to facilitate cleaning; and
b
is equipped with an adequate and suitable vacuum cleaning system which must, where reasonably practicable, be a fixed system.
3
Paragraph (2)(a) does not apply to a building in which, prior to 1st March 1988, there was carried out a process to which either—
a
as then in force, regulation 13 of the Asbestos Regulations 196917 applied and the process was carried out in compliance with that regulation; or
b
that regulation did not apply.