Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 11 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Subtitle 1 - GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL PROVISIONS › Chapter 504 - ASBESTOS ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION PROGRAM › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 11-504-2 - Definitions

Current through June, 2024
As used in this chapter:
"AAR" means the Asbestos Analyst's Registry.
"AAT" means the Asbestos Analytical Testing
					 program.
"Abatement activity" means any activity involving job set
					 up, removal, encapsulation, enclosure, renovation, repair, demolition,
					 construction, alteration, or maintenance of asbestos-containing
					 material.
"Abatement entity" means any person having one or more
					 employees or members involved in any abatement project.
"Abatement project" means any abatement activity which can
					 be predicted and in which the total amount of friable ACBM disturbed will
					 exceed three linear feet on pipes or three square feet on surfaces or generate
					 more than 0.5 cubic feet of debris.
"Agent" means any person who works on an abatement project
					 for an abatement entity, who is not an employee of the entity (e.g.,
					 sub-abatement entity).
"ACBM" means asbestos-containing building material.
"ACM" means asbestos-containing material.
"AIHA" means American Industrial Hygiene
					 Association.
"Analyst" means any person who analyzes bulk or air
					 samples to determine asbestos content or airborne fiber content,
					 respectively.
"Analytical service" means any facility which analyzes
					 bulk or air samples for asbestos content or fiber counting.
"Asbestos" means the asbestiform varieties of: chrysotile
					 (serpentine), crocidolite (riebeckite), amosite (cummingtonite-grunerite),
					 anthophyllite, tremolite, and actinolite.
"Asbestos-containing material" means material that
					 contains any type of asbestos in an amount greater than one per cent by area,
					 either alone or mixed with other fibrous or non-fibrous materials.
"Containment" means the isolation of an asbestos removal
					 area from the outside air by use of physical barriers.
"Contractor/Supervisor" means any abatement worker who has
					 been certified by the department under these rules to ensure that abatement
					 projects are conducted in accordance with Federal and State
					 requirements.
"Demolition" means the wrecking, taking out, or
					 intentional burning of any load supporting structural member of a facility
					 together with any related handling operations.
"Department" means the department of health, State of
					 Hawaii.
"Director" means the director of the department of health,
					 State of Hawaii, or the director's duly authorized agent.
"Emergency abatement" means any abatement activity
					 requiring immediate action, due to public health or safety reasons, which was
					 not planned but results from a sudden, unexpected event. This includes
					 abatement required by non-routine failures of equipment.
"EPA" means the United States Environmental Protection
					 Agency.
"EPA guidance document" means EPA 560/5-85-024 Guidance
					 for Controlling Asbestos-Containing Materials in Buildings, 1985.
"Facility" means any institutional, commercial, public,
					 industrial, or residential structure, installation, or building (including any
					 structure, installation, or building containing condominiums or individual
					 dwelling units operated as a residential cooperative, but excluding residences
					 or residential cooperatives that have four or fewer total dwelling units); any
					 ship; and any active or inactive waste disposal site. For purposes of this
					 definition, any building, structure, or installation that contains a loft used
					 as a dwelling is not considered a residential structure, installation, or
					 building. Any structure, installation, or building that was previously subject
					 to federal requirements pursuant to 40 CFR Part 61, Subpart M, is not excluded,
					 regardless of its current use or function.
"Friable asbestos-containing material" means any material
					 containing more than one percent asbestos which has been applied on ceilings,
					 walls, structural members, piping, duct work, or any other part of a building,
					 which when dry, may be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder by hand
					 pressure. The term includes non-friable asbestos-containing material after such
					 previously non-friable material becomes damaged to the extent that when dry it
					 may be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder by hand pressure.
"Friable asbestos-containing building material" means any
					 friable asbestos-containing material that is in or on interior structural
					 members or other parts of a school or public and commercial building.
"HIOSH" means Hawaii Occupational Safety and
					 Health.
"Inspector" means a person who is certified by the
					 department to determine the presence, location, and condition of
					 asbestos-containing building material. Excluded from being certified are
					 Federal, state or regulatory inspectors conducting compliance
					 inspections.
"Instructor" means any qualified person approved by the
					 department who provides instruction and training in the person's area of
					 expertise.
"Management planner" or "Asbestos management planner"
					 means any person who is certified by the department to use data gathered by a
					 certified inspector to assess the current or potential hazard posed by
					 asbestos-containing material, to determine the appropriate response actions,
					 and to develop a schedule for implementing these response actions.
"NIOSH" means the National Institute of Occupational
					 Safety and Health.
"NIOSH Method 7400" means the Fibers, Method 7400 of the
					 National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health for the quantitative
					 measure of airborne asbestos as determined by phase contrast microscopy (PCM)
					 analysis.
"NIST" means the National Institute for Standards and
					 Technology.
"NVLAP" means the National Voluntary Laboratory
					 Accreditation Program, administered by the National Institute of Science and
					 Technology.
"OSHA" means the United States Occupational Safety and
					 Health Administration.
"Person" means any individual, partnership, firm,
					 association, public or private corporation, federal agency, the state or any of
					 its political subdivisions, trust, estate, or any legal entity
"PAT" means the Proficiency Analytical Testing
					 Program.
"Project designer" means a person who is certified by the
					 department to determine how asbestos abatement work should be conducted.
"Project monitor" means a person who is certified by the
					 department to monitor abatement projects and collect air clearance
					 samples.
"Removal" means the stripping of any asbestos-containing
					 materials from surfaces or components of a facility.
"Renovation" means the alteration of one or more facility
					 or structural components.
"Repair" means returning damaged ACBM to an undamaged
					 condition or to an intact state so as to prevent fiber release.
"Small-scale, short duration" means activities that
					 involve removal of three square or linear feet or less of friable material,
					 such as surfacing or thermal system insulation, or 0.5 cubic feet or less of
					 friable debris, and are tasks such as, but not limited to:
(1) Removal of asbestos-containing insulation on
					 pipes;
(2) Removal of asbestos-containing insulation on beams or
					 above ceilings;
(3) Replacement of an asbestos-containing gasket on a
					 valve;
(4) Installation or removal of drywall;
(5) Installation of electrical conduits through or
					 proximate to asbestos-containing materials.
(6) Removal of asbestos-containing material only if
					 required in the performance of another maintenance activity not intended as
					 asbestos abatement;
(7) Removal of asbestos-containing thermal system
					 insulation;
(8) Minor repairs to damaged thermal system insulation
					 which do not require removal,
(9) Repairs to a piece of asbestos-containing
					 wallboard;
(10) Repairs, involving encapsulation, enclosure, or
					 removal of friable ACM only if required in the performance of emergency or
					 routine maintenance activity and not intended solely as asbestos
					 abatement.
"Structure" means a whole facility, building, or a major
					 portion thereof, such as a building wing.
"TSCA" means the U.S. Toxic Substance Control Act
					 15 U.S.C.
					 2601, et seq.
"Worker" means any person who is certified by the
					 department to engage in abatement activities.