Letter · Personal Injury & Compensation

Product identification letter for an asbestos or engineered-stone claim

A letter asking an employer, occupier, supplier or manufacturer to identify an asbestos product or an engineered-stone benchtop, panel or slab from its records.

Kind
Letter. A letter or email you adapt and send.
Where it applies
New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland
AI use
Yellow You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
Law stated as at
23 October 2026
Status
Maintained. Checked on 23 October 2026 against the 2 authorities it cites, for New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland.
Version
1
Source
Written for this library

When to use it

Use when the dust claim depends on which product was on a site, or who supplied it. The recipient is an employer, an occupier, a supplier or a manufacturer. The letter asks for identification. It does not allege a breach of a state work-health regulation.

Used for these tasks

Each task page says how far AI may help with the task and what the lawyer must review.

How AI may be used

AI may prepare the identification request from the sites and years the lawyer has accepted, and the lawyer checks the product description before it is sent.

AI may

  • Ask the recipient to identify the product, the supplier and the years from its own records
  • Set out Safe Work Australia's published definition of engineered stone, and say the state regulation was not quoted
  • Ask the recipient to preserve labels, invoices and safety data sheets

AI must not

  • Must not allege that the recipient committed an offence under a state regulation
  • Must not state a date on which asbestos was banned
  • Must not direct anyone to cut, process or sample stone
  • Must not treat Safe Work Australia's page as the text of the New South Wales, Victorian or Queensland regulation

The lawyer checks

  • The local work-health regulation is read before any breach is alleged. Safe Work Australia says implementation may vary
  • The product is described only as far as the instructions and the records go. A trade name is not invented
  • A sample, if one exists, is preserved. The letter does not tell the recipient to process engineered stone
  • The letter is not the Dust Diseases Tribunal asbestos lodgment form

Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.

Authorities

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