FHM TRAINING TOOLS

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2. Asbestos in Construction

3. Learning Objectives Objectives: • Have better understanding of OSHA Construction Standard for asbestos • Be familiar with exposure • Have knowledge of hazard communication requirements for asbestos in construction

4. Agenda Presentation Agenda: • Overview of asbestos in construction • Exposure monitoring • Hazard communication

5. Section 1 Overview of Asbestos in Construction

6. Construction Activities and Asbestos The asbestos standard regulates the following activities: • Demolishing or salvaging structures • Removing asbestos-containing material • Constructing, altering, repairing, maintaining, or renovating • Installing asbestos-containing products • Cleaning up • Housekeeping involving asbestos

7. Work Classifications OSHA establishes: • A classification system • Mandatory, simple, technological work practices • Four classes of construction work

8. Class I Work Class I: • Potentially hazardous class of asbestos jobs • Involves removal of thermal system insulation • Thermal system insulation • Surfacing materials

9. Class II Work Class II: • Includes the removal of other types of ACM • Includes removal of asbestos-containing floor or ceiling tiles, siding, roofing, or transite panels

10. Class III Work Class III: • Repair and maintenance operations where ACM or presumed ACM (PACM) are disturbed

11. Class IV Work Class IV: • Cleaning dust-contaminated surfaces • Vacuuming contaminated carpets • Mopping floors • Cleaning up ACM or PACM • Includes custodial activities where employees clean up asbestos-containing waste

12. Permissible Exposure Limit Employers must ensure: • No employee is exposed to an airborne concentration of asbestos in excess of 0.1 f/cc as an 8-hour time-weighted average (TWA) • Employees must not be exposed to an airborne concentration of asbestos in excess of 1 f/cc as averaged over a sampling period of 30 minutes

13. The Competent Person On all construction sites with asbestos operations, employers must designate a competent person: • One who can identify asbestos hazards in the workplace • Must be qualified to ensure worker safety • Must attend comprehensive training course • Training must include a course equivalent to Operations and Maintenance course

14. Section 2 Exposure Monitoring

15. Initial Exposure Assessment A competent person must perform an initial exposure assessment: • A negative exposure assessment demonstrates that employee exposure during an operation is consistently below the permissible exposure limit (PEL). • Initial exposure assessment is based on the following: • Employee exposure monitoring • Observations indicating exposure • For Class I asbestos work, employers must assume employee exposures are above the PEL

16. Negative Exposure Assessment Employers may show that exposures will be below the PELs through the following: • Data demonstrating that ACM cannot release airborne fibers in excess of the 8-hour TWA PEL or STEL • Exposure data obtained within the past 12 months • Current initial exposure monitoring

17. Exposure Monitoring Employers must determine employee exposures for each affected employee: • One or more samples representing full-shift exposure • One or more samples representing 30-minute exposures • Employer must allow affected employees to observe any employee exposure monitoring

18. Periodic Monitoring For Class I and II jobs, employers must conduct monitoring daily: • Representative of each employee working in a regulated area • For other than Class I and II, employers must monitor work where exposures can possibly exceed the PEL • Monitoring shows certain employee exposures

19. Additional Monitoring Additional monitoring is required when: • Changes that could result in new or additional exposures above the 8-hour TWA PEL or STEL

20. Medical Monitoring Employers must provide a medical surveillance program for all employees who do the following: • Engage in Class I, II, or III work • Wear negative-pressure respirators • A licensed physician must perform/supervise all exams • Employers must make exams available • Prior to assignment • Within 10 working days • When physician suggests

21. Recordkeeping Employers must maintain employee records: • If using data to demonstrate products made from or containing asbestos cannot release fibers • Keep records for 30 years • Keep medical surveillance records for duration of employment plus 30 years

22. Section 3 Hazard Communication

23. Regulated Areas A regulated area is: • A marked-off site where employees work with asbestos • Operations where airborne asbestos exceeds the PEL, must be performed within regulated areas • Only persons permitted by employer may enter a regulated area

24. Posting Posted warning signs must be easily readable and understandable • The signs must bear the following information: • DANGER ASBESTOSCANCER AND LUNG DISEASE HAZARD AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY RESPIRATORY AND PROTECTIVE CLOTHINGARE REQUIRED IN THIS AREA

25. Informing Other Employers An employer performing work in a regulated area must inform other employers onsite of the following: • Nature of work • Regulated area requirements • Measures to protect employees • Contractor controlling source of asbestos contamination • All employers with employees working near regulated areas must daily assess the enclosure's integrity

26. General Contractors General contractors must oversee all asbestos work: • General contractor determines whether asbestos contractors comply with the standard

27. Communicating Asbestos Hazards at Worksites Building/facility owners must identify thermal system insulation at the worksite: • Prospective employers applying for work adjacent to areas • Building owners' employees who work in or adjacent to these areas • Other employers with employees working in these areas • Tenants who will occupy areas

28. Posting of Warning Signs Posting of warning signs: • At the entrance to areas with ACM or PACM, the building/facility owner must post signs identifying the material present • Employers must post warning signs to inform employees of dangers and protective steps

29. Asbestos Warning Labels Employers must attach warning labels to products with asbestos: • Labels must contain warning statement against breathing asbestos fibers and contain the following legend: • DANGER CONTAINS ASBESTOS FIBERS AVOID CREATING DUST CANCER AND LUNG DISEASE HAZARD

30. Training Employers must provide a free training program for all employees who: • Are likely to be exposed in excess of a PEL • Perform Class I through IV asbestos operations Employees must be trained prior to initial assignment and at least annually thereafter

31. Additional Information Resources: http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/asbestos/ http://www.epa.gov/oppt/asbestos/pubs/training.html Asbestos NESHAP Adequately Wet Guidance. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), (1990, December). Demolition Practices Under the Asbestos NESHAP. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), (1996).