APPLICATION

Transportation Maintenance

Employees performing facility maintenance in buildings constructed prior to 1981, and employees who may contact, but do not routinely work with asbestos, shall have one hour of awareness training annually.

Employees who perform maintenance and repair work involving asbestos or potentially asbestos containing materials small in scale and of short duration shall have an Operations and Maintenance Certificate. Examples of typical small scale projects are: removal of asbestos coatings, asbestos insulation, or asbestos gasket material on bridges; clean up of asbestos that has fallen off pipes; and repair of damaged pipe insulation. Removal of large amounts of pipe insulation (greater than 25 linear feet) shall require an Asbestos Handler Certificate.

All Structures, Construction and Technical Services employees performing bridge inspection, construction inspection, or testing on potentially asbestos containing coatings shall have two hours of awareness training annually.

Equipment Management employees performing brake or clutch assembly work, or facility maintenance shall have one hour of asbestos awareness training annually. (Training is generally required for work on clutch and brake assemblies unless known not to contain asbestos, or if the facility was constructed after 1981 or contains no asbestos.)

Previous testing in Equipment Management facilities indicates that by employing one of two approved methods, water spray or organic solvent spray wetting, overexposure to asbestos fibers does not occur during brake and clutch assembly work.