Current through Register Vol. 41, No. 3, September 23, 2024
Asbestos management planners shall complete an accredited
asbestos inspector training program as provided in
18VAC15-20-770 and a two-day
accredited asbestos management planner training program. The two-day (16 hours)
accredited asbestos training program shall include lectures, demonstrations,
program review, and a written examination. The accredited asbestos management
planner training program shall address the following topics:
1. Training program overview.
a. The role of the management
planner.
b. Operations and
maintenance programs.
c. Setting
work priorities; protection of building occupants.
2. Evaluation/interpretation of survey
results.
a. Review of TSCA Title II
requirements for inspection and management plans as given in section 203(i)(1)
of TSCA Title II.
b. Summarized
field data and laboratory results; comparison between field inspector's data
sheet with laboratory results and site survey.
3. Hazard assessment.
a. Amplification of the difference between
physical assessment and hazard assessment.
b. The role of the management planner in
hazard assessment.
c. Explanation
of significant damage, damage, potential damage, and potential significant
damage and use of a description (or decision tree) code for assessment of ACM;
assessment of friable ACM.
d.
Relationship of accessibility, vibration sources, use of adjoining space, air
plenums and other factors to hazard assessment.
4. Legal implications.
a. Liability; insurance issues specific to
management planners.
b. Liabilities
associated with interim control measures, in-house maintenance, repair, and
removal.
c. Use of results from
previous inspections.
5.
Evaluation and selection of control options.
a. Overview of encapsulation, enclosure,
interim operations and maintenance, and removal; advantages and disadvantages
of each method.
b. Response actions
described via a decision tree or other appropriate method; work practices for
each response action.
c. Staging
and prioritizing of work in both vacant and occupied buildings.
d. The need for containment barriers and
decontamination in response actions.
6. Role of other professionals.
a. Use of industrial hygienists, engineers
and architects in developing technical specifications for response
actions.
b. Any requirements that
may exist for an architect to sign-off on plans.
c. Team approach to designing of high-quality
job specifications.
7.
Developing an operations and maintenance (O&M) plan.
a. Purpose of the plan.
b. Discussion of applicable EPA guidance
documents.
c. What actions should
be taken by custodial staff: proper cleaning procedures; steam cleaning and
high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) vacuuming.
d. Reducing disturbance of ACM.
e. Scheduling O&M for off-hours;
rescheduling or canceling renovation in areas with ACM.
f. Boiler room maintenance.
g. Disposal of ACM.
h. In-house procedures for ACM: bridging and
penetrating encapsulants, pipe fittings, metal sleeves, poly vinyl chloride
(PVC), canvas, and wet wraps; muslin with straps; fiber mesh cloth; mineral
wool, and insulating cement.
i.
Discussion of employee protection programs and staff training.
j. Case study in developing an O&M plan
(development, implementation process, and problems that have been
experienced).
8.
Recordkeeping for the management planner.
a.
Use of field inspector's data sheet along with laboratory results.
b. On-going recordkeeping as a means to track
asbestos disturbance.
c. Procedures
for recordkeeping.
9.
Assembling and submitting the management plan.
a. Plan requirements in TSCA Title II section
203(I)(1).
b. The management plan
as a planning tool.
10.
Financing abatement actions.
a. Economic
analysis and cost estimates.
b.
Development of cost estimates.
c.
Present costs of abatement versus future operations and maintenance
costs.
d. Asbestos School Hazard
Abatement Act grants and loans.
11. A review of key aspects of the accredited
asbestos training program.
Statutory Authority
§ 54.1-501 of the Code of Virginia.
