Asbestos Products Database | Asbestos Awareness

The Asbestos Products Database is Australia’s first comprehensive online database to assist homeowners, renovators, tradespeople and some industries to identify asbestos-containing materials so they can be managed safely. The database provides multiple search options for products commonly used in residential and commercial properties, in agriculture, automotive, industrial, plant and marine products and features over 60 different product types and more than 550 product photographs with descriptions and locations where these products might be found in homes built or renovated prior to 1990.

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Name	Pipe Lagging in poor condition
Caption	Asbestos containing pipe lagging in poor condition
Location	Commercial
Source	SafeWork NSW
Image Id	189

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Name	Pipework Lagging
Caption	Pipework Insulation-Lagging in Fire Hydrant Cupboard
Location	Commercial
Source	SafeWork NSW
Image Id	190

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Name	Asbestos rope lagging
Caption	Asbestos containing rope lagging on pipework in engine room.
Location	Plant
Source	SafeWork NSW
Image Id	191

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Lagging used on pipes and boilers

Product description
Thermal insulation for pipes, boilers and furnaces - normally at high temperatures.
Product type	Loose Insulation (referred to as lagging)
Sub-Product type
Trading name(s)
Other name(s)
Build element	Various manufacturing industries, construction
Product identification

Known uses	Thermal insulation for pipes, boilers and furnaces - normally at high temperatures.
Asbestos fibre type	Amosite (brown asbestos)
Friable or Non-Friable	Friable
Known Supplier(s)
Known place of manufacture
Date / period of manufacture	Pre 1987
Building construction period	1951-1960,1961-1970,1970-1980,1981-1990
Location	Commercial Plant Plumbing Industrial Plant Plumbing Marine Plant

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Name	Pipe Lagging in poor condition
Caption	Asbestos containing pipe lagging in poor condition beneath a steam platform
Location	Plant
Source	SafeWork NSW
Image Id	192

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Name	Asbestos containing lagging
Caption	Exterior body boiler with internal insulation exposed from a steam locomotive
Location	Plant
Source	SafeWork NSW
Image Id	193

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Name	Steam pipe with lagging
Caption	Steam pipe that was wrapped with asbestos lagging and within a secondary metal pipe. The “whitish” material that can be seen to the right of the vertical pipe through the corroded space is a clump of lagging that has become friable
Location	Industrial
Source	SHAPE Group
Image Id	266