Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 11 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Subtitle 1 - GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 502 - ASBESTOS CONTAINING MATERIALS IN SCHOOLS
Section 11-502-10 - Operations and maintenance
Current through February, 2024
(a) The local education agency shall implement an operations, maintenance, and repair program pursuant to this section whenever any friable ACBM is present or assumed to be present in a building that it leases, owns, or otherwise uses as a school building. Any material identified as nonfriable ACBM or nonfriable assumed ACBM must be treated as friable ACBM for purposes of this section when the material is about to become friable as a result of activities performed in the school building.
(b) The protection provided by EPA at 40 CFR 763.121 for worker protection during asbestos abatement projects is extended to employees of the local education agency who perform operations, maintenance, and repair activities involving ACM and who are not covered by the OSHA asbestos construction standard at 29 CFR 1926.1101 or an asbestos worker approved by OSHA pursuant to Section 19 of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Act. The local education agency may consult 40 CFR Part 763, Subpart E, Appendix B, as referenced in section 11-502-3, if their employees are performing operations, maintenance, and repair activities that are of small-scale and short duration.
(c) Small-scale, short duration activities shall only be performed by staff that have completed the training required by section 11-502-11. Records of all small-scale, short duration activities must be kept in the management plan. These shall include:
(d) Cleaning shall be performed as follows:
(e) The local education agency shall ensure that the procedures described below to protect building occupants shall be followed for any operations and maintenance activities disturbing friable ACBM:
(f) The response action for any maintenance activities disturbing friable ACBM, other than small-scale, short duration maintenance activities, shall be designed by persons certified to design response actions and conducted by persons certified to conduct response actions as required by sections 11-504-22, 11-504-23, and 11-504-35.
(g) The local education agency shall ensure that the procedures described below are followed in the event of a minor fiber release episode; these procedures may be conducted by persons trained pursuant to subsection 11-502-11(b):
(h) The local education agency shall ensure that the procedures described below are followed in the event of a major fiber release episode:
(i) The local education agency shall ensure that ACM such as floor tiles are not subjected to dry stripping or dry sanding.