National Declaration: Towards an Australian Safe Asbestos Free Environment (SaFE).

Our aim is to eliminate asbestos related disease and exposures to all forms of asbestos in Australia.

Australia has an unenviable record of one of the world's highest rate of asbestos related diseases and a legacy of asbestos containing materials (ACMs) in many workplaces and buildings - public and private, commercial, domestic and industrial.

The use of all forms of asbestos in Australia has been banned since 2003, including its import and export. But because of the legacy of its use, we have not solved the problem of asbestos exposures - for either people at work or in the general community.

Read the National Asbestos Declaration from the Asbestos Summit, 29 June.