Plant / machinery

Asbestos-containing commercial and industrial gloves to protect the hands from extreme heat and pressure. 

Heat insulation boards were used in plant and machinery like boilers and furnaces until the late 1980s. They are usually black and may have an asbestos warning sticker. 

Lagging thermal insulation may contain asbestos. It can be any colour and may look like rope or tape stuck on the outside of pipes or inside furnaces or boilers. 

Asbestos millboard was mostly used for insulation and fire protection, and around heating elements in air conditioning ducts. 

Moulded cement sheets used in electrical work that contain asbestos are usually in the form of bituminous boards. They’re like a flat cement sheet moulded to fit that’s hard, strong and fibrous.

Movement joints of 30.5 centimetres (1 foot) lengths were made with soft, non-hardening caulking material. The caulking forms a flexible seal used in seams, joints and openings between pipes, planks and wall sections.