Asbestos presents a postential health risk to anyone working in the home renovation industry. Identifying potential asbestos hazards is a must for home builders.

Schools, like many other buildings built prior to 1978, often contain asbestos, which is present in many common building materials used at that time.

Asbestos was typically used in fibro roofs, walls and soffits. In many houses fibro was also used internally for wet areas such as kitchens, bathrooms and laundries.

Asbestos is formed in fibre bundles and, as it is further processed or disturbed, the fibre bundles become progressively finer and more hazardous to health.

Disturbed or broken asbestos products or materials can release minute asbestos fibres that once airborne are capable of being inhaled deep into a person's lungs.

Bonded asbestos can be found in products such as asbestos cement sheeting commonly used in building materials between 1940s to the late 1980s.