NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document
Asbestos Abatement Technical Specifications
For 130 Cedar Street, New York, NY
b) Full face piece powered air-purifying respirators (PAPR) equipped with
HEPA filters shall be worn during the removal, encapsulation,
enclosure, repair and/or other disturbance of friable ACM whenever
airborne fiber concentrations inside the work areas are equal to or
greater than 0.1 f/cc and less than 2.0 f/cc. A supply of charged
replacement batteries, HEPA filters and flow test meter shall be
available in the clean room for use with powered air-purifying
respirators. HEPA filters shall be changed daily or as flow testing
indicates change is necessary. Any type C supplied-air respirator
operated in continuous flow may be substituted for a powered air-
purifying respirator.
C) Full face piece type C supplied-air respirators operated in pressure
demand mode equipped with an auxiliary positive pressure self-
contained breathing apparatus shall be worn during gross removal,
demolition, renovation and/or other disturbance of ACM whenever
airborne fiber concentrations inside the work area are equal to or
greater than 10.0 f/cc.
d) Full face piece type C supplied-air respirators operated in pressure
demand mode with HEPA filter disconnect protection shall be worn
during gross removal, demolition, renovation and/or other disturbance
of ACM whenever airborne fiber concentrations inside the work area
are equal to or greater than 2.0 f/cc and less than 10.0 f/cc.
e) Use of. single use dust respirators is prohibited for the above
respiratory program.
2.0 Personal Protective Equipment
2.1 The Contractor shall provide to all workers, foremen, superintendents and
authorized visitors and inspectors, protective disposable clothing consisting of
full body coveralls and head covers.
2.2 The Contractor shall provide eye protection (contact lenses shall not be worn
and spectacle kits which fit each personal respirator shall be issued), hard
hats and safety shoes as required by job conditions and safety regulations.
Safety shoes and hard hats shall be approved in accordance with ANSI Z89.1
1969 and ANSI Z41.1 1967.
2.3 Reusable footwear, hard hats and eye protection shall be left in the
"Contaminated Equipment Room" until the end of the asbestos abatement
work.
2.4 All disposable protective clothing shall be discarded and disposed of as
asbestos waste every time the wearer exits the work area to the outside area
through the decontamination facilities.
• 2.5 If it is absolutely necessary that non-disposable clothing be worn for the
asbestos project, laundering services shall be conducted in accordance with
29 CFR 1926.58.
Prepared by JLC Environmental Consultants, Inc. Project No. 04-3271 Page 31
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