Insurables — Australian business risk, sourced and dated

Asbestos removalists: public liability requirements in South Australia

Cover for legal liability to third parties for personal injury or property damage arising from business activities.

Data as at

Verified for South Australia

  • Licence liability condition: No insurance condition, and the evidence for that is about as strong as a negative gets: the words insurance and indemnity occur nowhere in the entire current Work Health and Safety Regulations 2012 — not in the asbestos chapter and not anywhere else in the instrument, which also carries the high risk work licences, plant registration, construction and mining provisions. South Australia does not use its work health and safety licensing to require cover of any kind. SA · effective 2026-08-24 South Australia Government · 2026-08-24
  • Licence evidence required: None. There is no insurance requirement anywhere in the Work Health and Safety Regulations 2012 for evidence to attach to. What a principal contractor demands before letting a removalist on site is a separate commercial question. SA · effective 2026-08-24 South Australia Government · 2026-08-24
  • Licensing body: SafeWork SA issues Class A and Class B asbestos removal licences under Chapter 8 Part 10 of the Work Health and Safety Regulations 2012, made under the Work Health and Safety Act 2012. SA · effective 2026-08-24 South Australia Government · 2026-08-24

What contracts commonly ask for

Principals and head contractors set their own insurance requirements, and those are frequently higher than a licence condition. The requirement that binds is the higher of the two, and both have to be read from the actual document.

What this cover costs

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