Tuesday, 3 March 2020

Mark Montgomery
[FYI request #12150 email]

Re: Official Information Act Request - asbestos management plan

Kia ora Mark

Thank you for your request for information under the Official Information Act 1982.

You asked:

Could Hauora Tairāwhiti please provide copies of all Asbestos Management Plans prepared under Regulation
13(2) of the Health and Safety at Work (Asbestos) Regulations 2016 for all workplaces occupied or from time
to time occupied by the District Health Board where asbestos or ACM (Asbestos Containing Material) is
suspected to be or has been identified at the workplace?
Hauora Tairāwhiti’s response is as follows:
Please find attached, Hauora Tairāwhiti’s Asbestos Management Plans.

If you are not satisfied with this response you may contact the Office of the Ombudsmen, phone 0800 802
602.

Please note this response or an edited version of this response may be published on the Hauora Tairāwhiti
DHB website. Your personal/identifying information will be redacted from any responses published.  If you
feel that there are good reasons why your response should not be made publicly available, we will be happy
to consider this.

Ngā mihi


Jim Green
Chief Executive
Hauora Tairāwhiti

Asbestos Register
Work Place Address:
Gisborne Hospital
421 Ormond Road
Gisborne

Geoffrey Blackman
Conducted By:
Manager Building & Engineering
Asbestos Type:
Amosite & Chrisotile
Specific Location:
Morris Adair Building North & South Services Ducts, Upper Plant Room,
Lift
Motor Room & Tank Room
Access to Ducts:
Restricted to Maintenance Staff & Security
Non-friable, in sheet form lining the walls of ducts
Damage or Deteriorate: No, contained within an internal restricted locked area
Activities that may disturb Asbestos: Potentially building & maintenance work
Date of Identification: 1997
General Note: Any work in this area requires the specific authorisation of the Manager, Building
& Engineering. Any work affecting the wall lining in these service ducts will require
a work plan that complies with the Asbestos Regulations.
Ends

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