La. Admin. Code tit. 33 § III-2721

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 8, August 20, 2024

Section III-2721 - Training and Periodic Surveillance

A. Training

1. The local education agency or the state government shall ensure, prior to the implementation of the O and M provisions of the management plan, that all members of its maintenance and custodial staff (custodians, electricians, heating/air conditioning engineers, plumbers, etc.) who may work in a building that contains ACBM receive at least two hours of awareness training whether or not they are required to work with ACBM. New custodial and maintenance employees shall be trained within 60 days after commencement of employment. Training shall include, but not be limited to:

a. information regarding asbestos and its various uses and forms;

b. information on the health effects associated with asbestos exposure;

c. locations of ACBM identified throughout each school or state building in which they work;

d. recognition of damage, deterioration, and delamination of ACBM; and

e. name and telephone number of the person designated to carry out general local education agency or the state government responsibilities under LAC 33:III.2705 and the availability and location of the management plan.

2. The local education agency or the state government shall ensure that all members of its maintenance and custodial staff who conduct any activities that will result in the disturbance of 3 square or linear feet of ACBM or less shall receive the training described in Paragraph A.1 of this Section and 14 hours of additional training. Additional training shall include, but not be limited to:

a. descriptions of the proper methods of handling ACBM;

b. information on the use of respiratory protection as contained in the EPA/NIOSH Guide to Respiratory Protection for the Asbestos Abatement Industry, September 1986 (EPA 560/OPTS-86-001), available from TSCA Assistance Office (TS-799), Office of Toxic Substances, Environmental Protection Agency, RM. E-543, 401 M St., S.W., Washington, D.C. 20460, and other personal protection measures;

c. the provisions of this Section and LAC 33:III.2717, LAC 33:III.2799, Appendix A, regulations contained in LAC 33:III.Chapter 51, Subchapter M, EPA regulations contained in 40 CFR 763, subpart G, and OSHA regulations contained in 29 CFR 1926.1101; and

d. hands-on training in the use of respiratory protection, other personal protection measures, and good work practices.

3. The local education agency or the state government shall ensure that all members of its maintenance and custodial staff who conduct any activities that will result in the disturbance of more than 3 square or linear feet of ACBM shall receive the training described in LAC 33:III.2739.B.3.

4. Local education agency or the state government maintenance and custodial staff who have attended accredited asbestos training or received equivalent training for O and M and periodic surveillance activities involving asbestos shall be considered trained for the purposes of this Section.

B. Periodic Surveillance

1. At least once every six months after a management plan is in effect, each local education agency or the state government shall conduct periodic surveillance in each building that it leases, owns, or uses as a school or state building that contains ACBM or is assumed to contain ACBM.

2. Each person performing periodic surveillance shall:

a. visually inspect all areas that are identified in the management plan as ACBM or assumed ACBM;

b. record the date of the surveillance, his or her name, and any changes in the condition of the materials; and

c. submit to the person designated to carry out general local education agency or state government responsibilities under LAC 33:III.2705 a copy of such record for inclusion in the management plan.

La. Admin. Code tit. 33, § III-2721

Promulgated by the Department of Environmental Quality, Office of Air Quality and Nuclear Energy, Air Quality Division, LR 15:735 (September 1989), amended by the Office of Air Quality and Radiation Protection, Air Quality Division, LR 20:649 (June 1994), amended by the Office of Environmental Assessment, Environmental Planning Division, LR 27:1222 (August 2001), amended by the Office of the Secretary, Legal Division, LR 40:506 (March 2014).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 30:2344 and 40:1749.1.