Fax cover sheet from J.C. Broderick & Associates, Oct 2001

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

A. INITIAL WORK-SITE AREA PREPARATION

1. The contractor shall provide and post in clearly visible locations, appropriate caution and/or danger signs indicating that asbestos work is being conducted and that unprotected persons should not enter.

2. Employees of the contractor permitted pursuant to Federal, State and local guidelines or persons employed by the building owner who have successfully completed a maintenance/custodial or worker training course approved by the Department of Environmental Protection shall clean with wet cloths and/or with HEPA vacuums as appropriate all objects that can be removed from the work area without disrupting the asbestos-containing material. Objects shall include, but not be limited to, furniture, equipment, drapes, and curtains. The cloths used for cleaning shall be disposed of as asbestos contaminated waste. If the room and objects within it are shown to be uncontaminated by asbestos, then other employees of the building owner or contractor may remove such objects;

3. The contractor shall install or build a decontamination facility in accordance with NYCDEP, Chapter 1, Subchapter F, Part 2. See attachment 1. 4. The contractor shall arrange for shutting down and sealing off all heating, cooling, and ventilating or other air handling systems. However, if approved by the asbestos safety control monitor, the lighting and the receptacles in the work area may be used if these are properly protected by ground fault circuit interrupters and can be adequately cleaned following abatement;

5. The contractor shall establish written emergency procedures to be posted within each work area. These procedures shall include plans for medical emergencies, repair and clean-up following temporary breach of containment barriers.

6. Before removing any asbestos from the work area, the contractor shall ensure that the outer perimeters of the work area have been securely sealed off from the rest of the building.

7. All vertical and horizontal surfaces except those of asbestos containing materials shall be sealed with watertight polyethylene sheeting except as provided in 8 below.

8. The only permissible exception to total enclosure shall be: i. An entrance airlock with showers and a decontamination chamber, ii. A debris removal airlock to permit cleaning and removing asbestos waste; iii. Staircases; and' iv. Controlled makeup air inlets into the work area.

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