Workplace Health and Safety Queensland will host a free live streamed asbestos safety session during Asbestos Awareness Week to deliver important safety messages.
A local handyman has been fined $3,000 for removing 36.8m2 of asbestos from a Paddington home without holding a licence, using a wrecking bar to remove the asbestos in an uncontrolled manner and for disposing of the asbestos in an unsafe manner.