Contractor/Supervisor Course

Course Content

• Overview covering:
  • certification requirements
  • physical characteristics of asbestos
  • historical and present use of asbestos
  • summary of health effects and related history
  • exposure standards
  • factors influencing the asbestos industry
• EPA, OSHA, state, and local regulations – current and future
• Health effects, medical surveillance, and health record keeping
• Respirators and Type C systems
• Protective clothing
• Safety and health considerations other than asbestos
• Preparing the work area and establishing a decontamination station
• Confining and minimizing airborne fibers/glovebagging
• Cleaning up the work area
• Personal hygiene, waste disposal, and air sampling
• Liability and insurance
• Control options other than removal
• Hands-on exercises to include:
• respirators and individual qualitative fit testing
• design of an asbestos abatement project
• constructing an asbestos work enclosure
• donning personal protective equipment
• simulated ceiling removal and clean up
• simulated pipe removal and clean up
• simulated emergency

Contractor/Supervisor Initial: Daily Start Time: 8 a.m. – End Time: 5 p.m.

Refresher Course Content

• Review and discuss changes in basic considerations and procedures for locating and identifying asbestos
• Review health and legal programs associated with asbestos
• Review proper asbestos control
• Changes in federal and state regulations
• Developments in state-of-the-art procedures for asbestos
• Review of key aspects of the initial training course
• Participants who complete the refresher courses will become recertified for a one-year period.

Contractor/Supervisor Refresher: Start Time: 8 a.m. – End Time: 5 p.m.

Fees, Deposit and Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

Supervisor/Contractor
Fee – $695
Deposit – $139
CEUs – 3.2

Supervisor/Contractor Refresher
Fee – $165
Deposit – $33
CEUs – 0.6

Registration

Course Schedule (Initial and Refresher)

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