Asbestos Awareness-No cost training

BCSP Points available

Course Content
Asbestos Awareness is for workers conducting housekeeping, maintenance and custodial activities during which ACM or presumed ACM is contacted but not disturbed; and clean-up activities for dust, waste and debris resulting from asbestos abatement or operations and maintenance activities. (US EPA Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act [AHERA] regulation, 40 CFR Part 763)

Course Topics

Asbestos
• Uses and forms
• Recognizing damage, deterioration and delamination
• Content of the Construction Standard for Asbestos

ACM
• Recognition
• Locations
• Maintaining debris and dust
• Requirements for signage and labeling
• Flooring

Health effects
• Lung Cancer-relationship between smoking and asbestos exposure
• Operations resulting in asbestos effects and importance of protection

Protection
• Purpose, use, fitting and limitations of respirators
• Appropriate work practices for asbestos jobs
• Medical surveillance requirements
• Proper response to release of asbestos fibers
• Public health organization programs

Housekeeping requirements
• Flooring maintainance
• Spills and releases
• Prohibition on compressed air cleaning
• HEPA vacuum use and operation
• Dry clean-up
• Disposal

This program can be delivered on site. Call Arlene Cook at 734.487.6991 for details.
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