Identifying asbestos where to start? - Toolbox sheet 2045 (English and Ukrainian)

Please note! The regulations on asbestos have been amended by the Royal Decree of 19 December 2025. This publication will be updated shortly to reflect these changes. In the last century, asbestos was used in countless applications. After all, it can be easily mined, it is cheap, and has a lot of good properties. The fibre is heat-resistant, thermally and acoustically insulating, non-combustible, chemically inert, resistant to micro-organisms, abrasion-resistant, etc. There are widely known applications of asbestos, but also many lesser-known applications, especially indoors. In this fact sheet, we try to give an overview of the applications of asbestos.