Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 11 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Subtitle 1 - GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 504 - ASBESTOS ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
Subchapter 4 - ACCREDITATION OF TRAINING COURSES
Section 11-504-52 - Initial course contents and requirements

Universal Citation: HI Admin Rules 11-504-52

Current through February, 2024

(a) The initial training course for abatement workers shall consist of a four-day course that shall include lectures, demonstrations, fourteen hours of hands-on training, individual respirator fit testing, course review, and one or more written examinations. The fourteen hours of hands-on training shall permit students to have actual experience performing tasks associated with asbestos abatement. The instructor-to-student ratio shall be no less than 1 to 25 during the hands-on portion of the course. The department recommends the use of audiovisual materials to complement lectures where appropriate. The training course shall adequately address the following topics:

(1) Physical characteristics of asbestos including the identification of asbestos and its aerodynamic characteristics, typical uses, physical appearance, and a summary of abatement control options;

(2) Potential health effects related to asbestos exposure including the nature of asbestos-related diseases, routes of exposure, dose-response relationships and the lack of a safe exposure level, the synergistic effect between cigarette smoking and asbestos exposure, the latency period for asbestos-related diseases, and a discussion of the relationship of asbestos exposure to asbestosis, lung cancer, mesothelioma, and cancers of other organs;

(3) Employee personal protective equipment including the classes and characteristics of respirator types; limitations of respirators and their proper selection, inspection, donning, use, maintenance, and storage procedures; methods for field testing of the facepiece-to-face seal (positive and negative pressure fit checks); qualitative and quantitative fit testing procedures; variability between field and laboratory protection factors that alter the fit of the respirator (e.g., facial hair); components of a proper respiratory protection program; selection and use of personal protective clothing; use, storage, and handling of non-disposable clothing; and regulations covering personal protective equipment;

(4) State-of-the-art work practices including proper work practices for abatement activities with descriptions of proper construction, maintenance of barriers and decontamination enclosure systems; positioning of warning signs; electrical and ventilation system lockout; proper working techniques for minimizing fiber release; use of wet methods; use of negative pressure exhaust ventilation equipment; use of high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) vacuums; proper clean up and disposal procedures; work practices for removal, encapsulation, enclosure, and repair of ACM; emergency procedures for sudden releases; potential exposure situations; transport and disposal procedures; and recommended and prohibited work practices;

(5) Personal hygiene including entry and exit procedures for the work area; use of showers; avoidance of eating, drinking, smoking, and chewing in the work area; and potential exposure, such as family exposure;

(6) Additional safety hazards that may be encountered during the abatement activities and how to deal with them, including electrical hazards, heat stress, air contaminants other than asbestos, fire and explosion hazards, scaffold and ladder hazards, slips, trips and falls, and confined spaces;

(7) Medical monitoring including OSHA and EPA Worker Protection Rule requirements for physical examinations, including pulmonary function tests, chest x-rays, medical history for each employee, and any other tests specified by the physician;

(8) Air monitoring including procedures to determine airborne concentrations of asbestos fibers, focusing on how personal air sampling is performed and the reasons for it;

(9) Relevant federal, state and local regulatory requirements, procedures, and standards with particular attention directed at relevant EPA, OSHA, and state rules concerning abatement workers;

(10) Establishment of respiratory protection programs; and

(11) A review of key aspects of the training course.

(b) The initial training course for contractors/Supervisors shall consist of a five-day course that shall include lectures, demonstrations, at least fourteen hours of hands-on training, individual respirator fit testing, course review, and one or more written examinations. The fourteen hours of hands-on training shall permit students to have actual experience performing tasks associated with asbestos abatement. The instructor-to-student ratio shall be no less than 1 to 25 during the hands-on portion of the course. The department recommends the use of audiovisual materials to complement lectures, where appropriate. The program shall adequately address the following topics:

(1) The physical characteristics of asbestos and asbestos-containing materials including the identification of asbestos and its aerodynamic characteristics, typical uses, physical appearance, a review of hazard assessment considerations, and a summary of abatement control options;

(2) Potential health effects related to asbestos exposure including the nature of asbestos-related diseases, routes of exposure, dose-response relationships and the lack of a safe exposure level, synergism between cigarette smoking and asbestos exposure, the latency period for diseases, and a discussion of the relationship of asbestos exposure to asbestosis, lung cancer, mesothelioma, and cancers of other organs;

(4) State-of-the-art work practices including proper work practices for abatement activities with descriptions of proper construction and maintenance of barriers and decontamination enclosure systems; positioning of warning signs; electrical and ventilation system lockout; proper working techniques for minimizing fiber release; use of wet methods; use of negative pressure exhaust ventilation equipment; use of high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) vacuums; proper clean up and disposal procedures; work practices for removal, encapsulation, enclosure, and repair of ACM; emergency procedures for unplanned releases; potential exposure situations; transport and disposal procedures; and recommended and prohibited work practices. Discussion of new abatement-related techniques and methodologies may be included;

(6) Additional safety hazards that may be encountered during the abatement activities and how to deal with them including electrical hazards, heat stress, air contaminants other than asbestos, fire and explosion hazards, scaffold and ladder hazards, slips, trips, and falls, and confined spaces;

(7) Medical monitoring including HIOSH requirements for a pulmonary function test, chest X-rays and a medical history for each employee;

(8) Air monitoring including procedures to determine airborne concentrations of asbestos fibers, including descriptions of aggressive air sampling, sampling equipment and methods, reasons for air monitoring, types of samples, and interpretation of results, specifically from analyses performed by polarized light, phase-contrast, and electron microscopy analysis;

(9) Relevant federal, state, and local regulatory requirements including the following procedures and standards:

(A) Requirements of TSCA Title II;

(B)40 CFR Part 61, National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP), Subparts A (General Provisions) and M (National Emission Standards for Asbestos);

(D) Chapters 501 and 502;

(E)40 CFR, Part 763, Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA);

(F) Applicable state and local rules, and differences between federal and state requirements, where they apply, and the effects on public and non-public schools or public or commercial buildings;

(10) Respiratory protection programs and medical monitoring programs;

(11) Insurance and liability issues including worker's compensation coverage and exclusions, third-party liabilities and defenses, insurance coverage and exclusions;

(12) Record keeping for asbestos abatement projects including records required by federal, state, and local rules, and records recommended for legal and insurance purposes;

(13) Supervisory techniques for asbestos abatement activities, including supervisory practices to enforce and reinforce the required work practices and discourage unsafe work practices;

(14) Contract specifications including discussion of key elements that are included in contract specifications; and

(15) A review of key aspects of the training course.

(c) The initial training course for inspectors shall consist of a three-day course that shall include lectures, demonstrations, four hours of hands-on training, individual respirator fit testing, course review, and a written examination. The four hours of hands-on training shall permit students to have actual experience performing tasks associated with asbestos inspection. The instructor-to-student ratio shall be no less than 1 to 25 during the hands-on portion of the course. The department recommends the use of audiovisual materials to complement lectures, where appropriate. The inspector training course shall adequately address the following topics:

(1) Background information on asbestos including the identification of asbestos, with examples and discussion of the uses and locations of asbestos in buildings; and the physical appearance of asbestos;

(2) Potential health effects related to asbestos exposure including the nature of asbestos-related diseases; routes of exposure; dose-response relationships and the lack of a safe exposure level; the synergistic effect between cigarette smoking and asbestos exposure; the latency period for asbestos-related diseases; a discussion of the relationship of asbestos exposure to asbestosis, lung cancer, mesothelioma, and cancers of other organs;

(3) Functions, qualifications, and role of inspectors and management planners, including discussions of prior experience; discussions of the functions of a certified asbestos inspector as compared to those of a certified management planner; discussion of inspection process including inventory of ACM and physical assessment;

(4) Legal liabilities and defenses including responsibilities of the inspector and management planner; a discussion of comprehensive general liability policies, claims-made, and occurrence policies, environmental and pollution liability policy clauses; state liability insurance requirements; bonding and the relationship of insurance availability to bond availability;

(5) Understanding building systems including the interrelationship between building systems, with an overview of common building physical plan layouts; heat, ventilation, and air conditioning system types, physical organization, and where asbestos is found on heat, ventilation, and air conditioning components; building mechanical systems, their types and organization, and where to look for asbestos on such systems; inspecting electrical systems, including appropriate safety precautions; and reading blueprints and as-built drawings;

(6) Public, employee, and building occupant relations, including notifying employee organizations about the inspection; signs to warn building occupants; tact in dealing with occupants and the press; scheduling of inspections to minimize disruption; and education of building occupants about actions being taken;

(7) Pre-inspection planning and review of previous inspection records including scheduling the inspection and obtaining access; building record review; identification of probable homogeneous areas from blueprints or as-built drawings; consultation with maintenance or building personnel; review of previous inspection, sampling, and abatement records of a building; and the role of the inspector in exclusions for previously performed inspections;

(8) Inspecting for friable and non-friable asbestos-containing material and assessing the condition of friable asbestos-containing material including procedures to follow in conducting visual inspections for friable and non-friable asbestos-containing material; types of building materials that may contain asbestos; touching materials to determine friability; open return air plenums and their importance in heat, ventilation, and air conditioning systems; assessing damage, significant damage, potential damage, and potential significant damage; amount of suspected asbestos-containing material, both in total quantity and as a percentage of the total area; type of damage; accessibility; asbestos-containing material's potential for disturbance; known or suspected causes of damage or significant damage; and deterioration as assessment factors;

(9) Bulk sampling and documentation of asbestos in schools including detailed discussion of the "Simplified Sampling Scheme for Friable Surfacing Materials" (EPA 560/5-85-030a October 1985); techniques to ensure sampling in a randomly distributed manner for other than friable surfacing materials; sampling of non-friable materials; techniques for bulk sampling; sampling equipment the inspector should use; patching or repair of damage done in sampling; an inspector's repair kit; discussion of polarized light microscopy; choosing an accredited laboratory to analyze bulk samples; and quality control and quality assurance procedures;

(10) Inspectors' respiratory protection and personal protective equipment including the classes and characteristics of respirator types; limitations of respirators; proper selection, inspection, donning, use, maintenance, and storage procedures for respirators; methods for field testing of the facepiece-to-face seal (positive and negative pressure fit checks); qualitative and quantitative fit testing procedures; variability between field and laboratory protection factors that alter respirator fit (e.g., facial hair); components of a proper respiratory protection program; selection and use of personal protective clothing; and use, storage, and handling of non-disposable clothing;

(11) Record keeping and writing the inspection report including labeling of samples and keying sample identification to sampling location; recommendations on sample labeling; detailing of asbestos-containing material inventory; photographs of selected sampling areas and examples of asbestos-containing material condition; information required for inclusion in the management plan by TSCA Title II section 203(i)(1);

(12) Regulatory review including:

(A) Requirements of TSCA title II;

(B)40 CFR Part 61, National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP), Subparts A (General Provisions) and M (National Emission Standards for Asbestos);

(D) Chapter 501 (Asbestos Emission Standards)and 502 (Asbestos-Containing Materials in Schools) of Title 11;

(E) Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA) 40 CFR Part 763; and

(F) Applicable state and local rules, and differences between federal and state requirements, where they apply, and the effects on public and non-public schools or public or commercial buildings;

(13) A field trip including a walk-through inspection; on-site discussion about information gathering and the determination of sampling locations; on-site practice in physical assessment; and classroom discussion of field exercise; and

(14) A review of key aspects of the training course.

(d) The initial training course for management planners shall consist of the three-day inspector training course outlined in paragraph (c) and a two-day management planner training course. Successful completion of an accredited inspector course shall be a prerequisite for admission to the management planner training course. The two-day training program shall include lectures, demonstrations, course review, and one or more written examinations. The department recommends the use of audiovisual materials to complement lectures, where appropriate. The asbestos management planner training course shall adequately address the following topics:

(1) Course overview including the role and responsibilities of a management planner; operations and maintenance programs; setting work priorities; and protection of building occupants;

(2) Evaluation and interpretation of survey results including review of TSCA Title II requirements for inspection and management plans for school building as given in section 203(i)(1) of TSCA Title II; interpretation of field data and laboratory results; and a comparison between field inspectors' data sheet with laboratory results and site survey;

(3) Hazard assessment including amplification of the difference between physical assessment and hazard assessment; the role of the management planner in hazard assessment; an explanation of significant damage, damage, potential damage, and potential significant damage; the use of a description code or decision tree for assessment of asbestos-containing material; assessment of friable asbestos-containing material; the relationship of accessibility, vibration sources, use of adjoining space, and air plenums and other factors to hazard assessment;

(4) Legal implications including liability; insurance issues specific to planners; liabilities associated with interim control measures, in-house maintenance, repair, and removal; use of results from previously performed inspections;

(5) Evaluation and selection of control options including an overview of encapsulation, enclosure, interim operations and maintenance, and removal; advantages and disadvantages of each method; response actions described via a decision tree or other appropriate method; work practices for each response action; staging and prioritizing of work in both vacant and occupied buildings; and the need for containment barriers and decontamination in response actions;

(6) Role of other professionals including the use of industrial hygienists, engineers, and architects in developing technical specifications for response actions; any requirements that may exist for architect sign-off of plans; and the team approach to design of high-quality job specifications;

(7) Developing an operations and maintenance plan including the purpose of the plan; a discussion of applicable EPA guidance documents; what actions should be taken by custodial staff; proper cleaning procedures; steam cleaning and HEPA vacuuming; reducing disturbance of asbestos-containing materials; scheduling operation and maintenance for off-hours ; rescheduling or canceling renovation in areas with asbestos-containing material; boiler room maintenance; disposal of asbestos-containing material; in-house procedures for asbestos-containing materials-bridging and penetrating encapsulants; pipe fittings; metal sleeves; polyvinyl chloride, canvas, and wet wraps; muslin with straps; fiber mesh cloth; mineral wool, and insulating cement; discussion of employee protection programs and staff training; and a case study in developing an operation and maintenance plan including the development, implementation process, and problems that have been experienced;

(8) Regulatory review including:

(A) Requirements of TSCA title II;

(B)40 CFR Part 61, National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP), Subparts A (General Provisions) and M (National Emission Standards for Asbestos);

(D) Chapter 501 (Asbestos Emission Standards) and 502 (Asbestos-Containing Materials in Schools) of Title 11;

(E) Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA) 40 CFR Part 763; and

(F) Applicable state and local rules, and differences between federal and state requirements, where they apply, and the effects on public and non-public schools or public or commercial buildings;

(9) Record-keeping for the management planner including the use of a field inspector's data sheet along with laboratory results; ongoing record-keeping as a means to track asbestos disturbance; and procedures for recordkeeping;

(10) Assembling and submitting the management plan including plan requirements in TSCA Title II section 203(i)(1); and the management plan as a planning tool;

(11) Financing abatement actions including economic analysis and cost estimates; development of cost estimates; present costs of abatement versus future operations and maintenance costs; and Asbestos School Hazard Abatement Act grants and loans; and

(12) A review of key aspects of the training course.

(d) The initial training course for abatement project designers shall consist of a three-day course that shall include lectures, demonstrations, course review, and one or more written examinations. The department recommends the use of audiovisual material to complement lectures where appropriate. The three-day abatement project designer training course shall adequately address the following topics:

(1) Background information on asbestos including identification of asbestos; examples and discussion of the uses and locations of asbestos in buildings; and the physical appearance of asbestos;

(2) Potential health effects related to asbestos exposure including the nature of asbestos-related diseases; routes of exposure; dose-response relationships and the lack of a safe exposure level; the synergistic effect between cigarette smoking and asbestos exposure; the latency period of asbestos-related diseases; and a discussion of the relationship between asbestos exposure and asbestosis, lung cancer, mesothelioma, and cancers of other organs;

(3) An overview of abatement construction projects including use of abatement as a portion of a renovation project; and OSHA requirements for notification of other abatement entities on a multi-employer site, pursuant to chapter 12-145;

(4) Safety system design specifications including design, construction and maintenance of containment barriers and decontamination enclosure systems; positioning of warning signs; electrical and ventilation system lock out; proper working techniques for minimizing fiber release; entry and exit procedures for the work area; use of wet methods; proper techniques for initial cleaning; use of negative pressure exhaust ventilation equipment; use of HEPA vacuums; proper cleanup and disposal of asbestos; work practices as they apply to encapsulation, enclosure, and repair; and use of glove bags and a demonstration of glove bag use;

(5) Visit to an abatement site or other suitable building site, including on-site discussions of abatement design and building walk-through inspection. The visit shall include a discussion of the rationale for the concept of functional spaces during the walk-through;

(6) Employee personal protective equipment including the classes and characteristics of respirator types; limitations of respirators; proper selection, inspection, donning, use, maintenance, and storage procedures; methods for field testing of the facepiece-to-face seal (positive and negative pressure fit checks); qualitative and quantitative fit testing procedures; variability between field and laboratory protection factors that alter the fit of the respirator (e.g., facial hair); components of a proper respiratory protection program; selection and use of personal protective clothing; use, storage, and handling of non-disposable clothing; and rules covering personal protective equipment;

(7) Additional safety hazards including those encountered during abatement activities and how to deal with them, especially electrical hazards, heat stress, air contaminants other than asbestos, fire, and explosion hazards;

(8) Fiber aerodynamics and control including aerodynamic characteristics of asbestos fibers; the importance of proper containment barriers; the settling time for asbestos fibers; wet methods in abatement; aggressive air monitoring following abatement; and aggressive air movement and negative pressure exhaust ventilation as a clean up method;

(9) Designing abatement solutions including discussions of removal, enclosure, and encapsulation methods; and asbestos waste disposal;

(10) Final clearance process including a discussion of the need for a written sampling rationale for aggressive final air clearance; requirements of a complete visual inspection; and the relationship of the visual inspection to final air clearance;

(11) Budgeting and cost estimation including the development of a cost estimate; present costs of abatement versus future costs, including periodic surveillance and operations and maintenance; and setting priorities for abatement jobs to reduce cost;

(12) Writing abatement specifications including preparation of and need for a written project design; means and methods specifications versus performance specifications; the design of abatement in occupied buildings; modification of guide specifications to a particular building; worker and building occupant health and medical considerations; replacement of asbestos-containing materials with non-asbestos substitutes; clearance of work area after abatement; and air monitoring for clearance, if required;

(13) Preparing abatement drawings including the significance and need for as-built drawings; the use of as-built drawings as base drawings; the use of inspection photographs and on-site reports; methods of preparing abatement drawings; diagramming containment barriers; relationship of drawings to design specifications; and particular problems related to abatement drawings;

(14) Contract preparation and administration;

(15) Legal liabilities and defenses including insurance considerations; bonding; hold-harmless clauses; use of abatement entities' liability insurance; and claims-made versus occurrence policies;

(16) Replacement of asbestos with asbestos-free substitutes;

(17) The role of other consultants including the development of technical specification sections by industrial hygienists or engineers; and the multi-disciplinary team approach to abatement design;

(18) Occupied buildings including special design procedures required in occupied buildings; education of occupants; extra monitoring recommendations; staging of work to minimize occupant exposure; and scheduling of renovation to minimize exposure;

(19) Relevant federal, state, and local regulatory requirements, procedures, and standards, including:

(A) Requirements of TSCA title II;

(B)40 CFR Part 61, National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP), Subparts A (General Provisions) and M (National Emission Standards for Asbestos);

(D) Chapter 501 (Asbestos Emission Standards) and 502 (Asbestos-Containing Materials in Schools) of Title 11;

(E)40 CFR, Part 763, Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA); and

(F) Applicable state and local rules, and differences between federal and state requirements, where they apply, and the effects on public and non-public schools or public or commercial buildings; and

(20) A review of key aspects of the training course.

(f) The initial training course for project monitors shall consist of a five-day or two-day training course that shall include lectures, demonstrations, at least six hours of hands-on training, course review, and at least one written, multiple choice examination. The instructor-to-student ratio shall be no less than 1 to 25 during the hands-on portion of the course. The department recommends the use of audiovisual materials to complement lectures, where appropriate. The two-day course shall only be taken by persons who hold current management planner or contractor/supervisor certification, and shall address topics that are not presented in the inspector, management planner or contractor/supervisor courses.

The project monitor training course shall adequately address the following topics:

(1) Roles and responsibilities of the project monitor including definition and responsibilities of the project monitor; regulatory and specification compliance monitoring; air monitoring; conducting visual inspections; and final clearance monitoring;

(2) Characteristics of asbestos and asbestos-containing materials including the typical uses of asbestos; physical appearance of asbestos; review of asbestos abatement and control techniques; presentation of the health effects of asbestos exposure, including routes of exposure, dose-response relationships and latency periods for asbestos-related diseases; and a discussion of the relationship of asbestos exposure to asbestosis, lung cancer, mesothelioma, and cancers of other organs;

(3) Federal and state asbestos requirements including:

(A) Requirements of TSCA title II;

(B)40 CFR Part 61, National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP), Subparts A (General Provisions) and M (National Emission Standards for Asbestos);

(D) Chapters 501 and 502;

(E)40 CFR Part 763, Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA); and

(F) Applicable state and local rules, and differences between federal and state requirements, where they apply, and the effects on public and non-public schools or public or commercial buildings;

(4) Understanding building construction and building systems including building construction basics; building physical plan layout; building systems (heat, ventilation, and air conditioning system, electrical, etc.); layout and organization, where asbestos is likely to be found on building systems; and renovations and the effect of asbestos abatement on building systems;

(5) Asbestos abatement contracts, specifications, and drawings including basic provisions of the contract; relationships between principal parties; establishing chain of command; types of specifications, including means and methods, performance, and proprietary and nonproprietary; reading and interpreting records and abatement drawings; discussion of change orders; and common enforcement responsibilities and authority of a project monitor;

(6) Response actions and abatement practices including pre-work inspections; pre-work considerations such as pre-cleaning of the work area, removal of furniture, fixtures, and equipment; shutdown and modification of building systems; construction and maintenance of containment barriers; proper demarcation of work areas; work area entry and exit, hygiene practices; determining the effectiveness of air filtration equipment; techniques for minimizing fiber release such as wet methods and continuous cleaning; abatement methods other than removal; abatement area clean up procedures; waste transport and disposal procedures; and contingency planning for emergency response;

(7) Asbestos abatement equipment including typical equipment found on an abatement project such as air filtration devices, vacuum systems, and negative pressure differential monitoring; HEPA filtration units, theory of filtration, design and construction of HEPA filtration units, qualitative and quantitative performance of HEPA filtration units, sizing the ventilation requirements, location of HEPA filtration units, qualitative and quantitative tests of containment barrier integrity; best available technology;

(8) Personal protective equipment including proper selection of respiratory protection; classes and characteristics of respirator types, limitations of respirators; proper use of other safety equipment, protective clothing selection, use, and proper handling, hard and bump hats, safety shoes; breathing air systems, high pressure versus low pressure, testing for Grade D air, determining proper backup air volumes;

(9) Air monitoring strategies including sampling equipment, sampling pumps (low versus high volume), flow regulating devices (critical and limiting orifices), use of fibrous aerosol monitors on abatement projects; sampling media, types of filters, types of cassettes, filter orientation, storage and shipment of filters; calibration techniques, primary calibration standards, secondary calibration standards, temperature and pressure effects, frequency of calibration, record-keeping and field work documentation, calculations; air sample analysis, techniques available and limitations of AHERA on their use, transmission electron microscopy (background to sample preparation and analysis, air sample conditions which prohibit analysis, EPA's recommended technique for analysis of final air clearance samples), phase contrast microscopy (background to sample preparation, and the AHERA limits on the use of phase contrast microscopy), what each technique measures; analytical methodologies, AHERA TEM protocol, NIOSH 7400, OSHA reference method (non clearance), EPA recommendation for clearance (TEM); sampling strategies for clearance monitoring, types of air samples (personal breathing zone versus fixed-station area) sampling location and objectives (pre-abatement, during abatement, and clearance monitoring), number of samples to be collected, minimum and maximum air volumes, clearance monitoring (post-visual inspection) (number of samples required, selection of sampling locations, period of sampling, aggressive sampling, interpretations of sampling results, calculations), quality assurance; and special sampling problems, crawl spaces, acceptable samples for laboratory analysis, sampling in occupied buildings (barrier monitoring);

(10) Safety and health issues other than asbestos including confined-space entry, electrical hazards, fire and explosion concerns, ladders and scaffolding, heat stress, air contaminants other than asbestos, fall hazards, and hazardous materials on abatement projects;

(11) Conducting visual inspections including inspections during abatement, visual inspections using the ASTM E1368 document; conducting inspections for completeness of removal; discussion of "how clean is clean?";

(12) Legal responsibilities and liabilities of project monitors including specification enforcement capabilities; regulatory enforcement; licensing; powers delegated to project monitors through contract documents;

(13) Record-keeping and report writing including developing project logs and daily logs (what should be included, who sees them); final report preparation; record-keeping under federal regulations; and

(14) Workshops (six hours spread over three days) including contracts, specifications, and drawings. The workshop requirement may be fulfilled by the issuance of a set of contracts, specifications, and drawings and then being asked to answer questions and make recommendations to a project architect, engineer, or to the building owner based on given conditions and these documents; Air monitoring strategies and asbestos abatement equipment: This workshop could consist of simulated abatement sites for which sampling strategies would have to be developed (i.e., occupied buildings, industrial situations). Through demonstrations and exhibition, the project monitor may also be able to gain a better understanding of the function of various pieces of equipment used on abatement projects (air filtration units water filtration units, negative pressure monitoring devices, sampling pump calibration devices, etc.); Conducting visual inspections: This workshop could consist, ideally, of an interactive video in which a participant is "taken through" a work area and asked to make notes of what is seen. A series of questions will be asked which are designed to stimulate a person's recall of the area. This workshop could consist of a series of two or three videos with different site conditions and different degrees of cleanliness.

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Hawaii Administrative RulesTitle 11 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTHSubtitle 1 - GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL PROVISIONSChapter 504 - ASBESTOS ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION PROGRAMSubchapter 4 - ACCREDITATION OF TRAINING COURSESSection 11-504-52 - Initial course contents and requirements

Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 11 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Subtitle 1 - GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 504 - ASBESTOS ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
Subchapter 4 - ACCREDITATION OF TRAINING COURSES
Section 11-504-52 - Initial course contents and requirements