Project designers work with building owners and abatement personnel to ensure that the project can be conducted safely and with minimal risks to building occupants. They prepare the work specifications for response actions (which may include asbestos removal, encapsulation, or enclosure).Project designers work with building owners and abatement personnel to ensure that the project can be conducted safely and with minimal risks to building occupants. They prepare the work specifications for response actions (which may include asbestos removal, encapsulation, or enclosure).In the AHERA rule for K-12 schools, the U.S. EPA required that local education agencies obtain the services of an accredited/licensed project designer before beginning most response actions affecting friable asbestos-containing building materials. Later the EPA extended the accreditation program to include persons designing certain asbestos projects in public and commercial buildings, namely:
1. Response and removal actions, other than small-scale, short-duration maintenance activities;
2. Maintenance activities that disturb friable ACBM, other than SSSD activities;
3. Responses to major fiber release episodes.
Note: Respirator Fit Testing may be provided during these sessions for individuals who are medically cleared and clean-shaven in the area of the facepiece seal. If you would like to be fit tested in this class, you must bring your own respirator. Smoking/Eating/Drinking is prohibited 30 minutes prior to the actual fit tests.