With the changes to the Health and Safety at Work Act there arose a need for the Person Conducting a Business or Undertaking (PCBU) to have a system that records the existence and location of asbestos within a building.

Building Materials Information System (BMIS) is a tool that helps the PCBU satisfy their regulatory requirements under the regulations. The starting point for BMIS is entering all Asbestos Containing Material (ACM) data identified from an asbestos survey, into a register for each building. The register holds a range of attributes about the ACM item including material type, location, survey methodology etc. BMIS is particularly useful for tradespeople who are working within buildings, and whom need to know of the asbestos dangers prior to cutting open walls, drilling holes etc. A scanning of a QR code in each room within the building by the contractor via a mobile app, will detail the asbestos hazards within that room. Any new work that the contractor undertakes that has an impact on the asbestos risk, is then loaded onto the system, which then updates the asset management/facilities management database.

This report generator allows the PCBU to have an up-to-date document reflecting the true state of asbestos with the workplace at any given moment.