PREFACE

This guide is intended to provide site supervisors at ship scrapping facilities with an overview of the most pertinent environmental and worker health and safety requirements to assist them in ensuring compliance at their facilities. The guide includes specific procedures for asbestos removal that occur in ship scrapping operations.

Taking a process-specific approach allows the guide to be a more manageable and useful reference tool for key ship scrapping facility personnel. Ship scrappers can review key environmental, safety, and health requirements for each process.

This guide was originally prepared by EPA’s Federal Facilities Enforcement Office (FFEO) in the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance.

To obtain complete updated copies of this document, please contact:

The Federal Facilities Enforcement Office (2261A) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, D.C. 20460