Alabama Administrative Code › Title 822 - SAFE STATE ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS › Chapter 822-X-2 - ACCREDITATION OF TRAINING PROGRAMS, TRAINING COURSES, REFRESHER TRAINING COURSES, AND INDIVIDUALS ENGAGED IN ASBESTOS-RELATED ACTIVITIES › Section 822-X-2-.03 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 9, June 28, 2024
(1)
ACBM
means
			 asbestos-containing building material.
(2)
ACM
means
			 asbestos-containing material.
(3)
Accredited abatement worker
means an individual who
			 has been trained by an accredited training program, as defined in this Section,
			 and who has been accredited by Safe State pursuant to Section 822-X-2-.05 to
			 perform asbestos abatements.
(4)
Accredited inspector
means an individual who has been
			 trained by an accredited training program, as defined in this Section, and who
			 has been accredited by Safe State pursuant to Section 822-X-2-.05 to conduct
			 asbestos inspections.
(5)
Accredited project designer
means an individual who
			 has been trained by an accredited training program, as defined in this Section,
			 and who has been accredited by Safe State pursuant to Section 822-X-2-.05 to
			 prepare asbestos abatement project designs.
(6)
Accredited management
			 planner
means an individual who has been trained by an accredited
			 training program, as defined in this Section, and who has been accredited by
			 Safe State pursuant to Section 822-X-2-.05 to develop asbestos management
			 plans.
(7)
Accredited
			 supervisor
means an individual who has been trained by an
			 accredited training program, as defined in this Section, and who has been
			 accredited by Safe State pursuant to Section 822-X-2-.05 to supervise and
			 conduct asbestos abatements. (For purposes of this Chapter, Supervisor is the
			 same as Contractor/Supervisor in    40 CFR 763    Appendix C to Subpart E.)
(8)
Accredited training
			 program
means a training program that has been accredited by Safe
			 State pursuant to Section 822-X-2-.04, by a State or Tribe with which Alabama
			 has a written reciprocal agreement pursuant to this Chapter, or by the EPA
			 pursuant to  40 CFR 763  (Subpart E, Appendix C) to provide training for
			 individuals engaged in asbestos abatement and asbestos-related
			 activities.
(9)
Administrative Procedures Act
means the Alabama
			 Administrative Procedures Act, §§
								41-22-1 to -22-27, Code of Alabama
			 (1975).
(10)
Asbestos
means the asbestiform varieties of:
			 chrysotile (serpentine); crocidolite (riebeckite); amosite (cummingtonite
			 grunerite); anthophyllite; tremolite; and actinolite.
(11)
Asbestos
			 abatement
means the removal, enclosure, or encapsulation of
			 friable or nonfriable ACBM.
(12)
Asbestos abatement project
means any activity
			 involving the removal, enclosure, or encapsulation of friable or nonfriable
			 ACBM.
(13)
Asbestos-containing building material (ACBM)
means
			 surfacing ACM, thermal system insulation ACM, or miscellaneous ACM that is
			 found in or on a public and commercial building or interior structural members
			 or other parts of a school building.
(14)
Asbestos-containing material
			 (ACM)
means any material or product in or on a public and
			 commercial building or in a school building which contains more than one
			 percent (1%) asbestos.
(15)
Asbestos-related activities
means asbestos abatement,
			 response actions, inspections, and project designs as defined in this
			 Section.
(16)
ASHARA
means Asbestos School Hazard Abatement
			 Reauthorization Act ( 40 CFR part 763, Appendix C to Subpart E).
(17)
Asynchronous Online
			 Course
means a course that is delivered at any time and at any
			 location.
(18)
Course
			 agenda
means an outline of the key topics to be covered during a
			 training course, and must include the starting time for each lecture, exercise,
			 or hands-on section and the name of the instructor for each key
			 topic.
(19)
Course
			 test
means a closed-book evaluation of the overall effectiveness
			 of the training which shall test the trainees' knowledge and retention of the
			 topics covered during the course.
(20)
Course student
			 roster
means a list of names of every individual who attended the
			 course.
(21)
Course
			 test blue print
means written documentation identifying the
			 proportion of course test questions devoted to each major topic in the course
			 curriculum.
(22)
Discipline
means one of the specific types or
			 categories of asbestos-related activities identified in this Chapter for which
			 individuals may receive training from accredited programs and become accredited
			 by Safe State, namely: Inspector, Management Planner, Supervisor, Project
			 Designer, and Abatement Worker.
(23)
EPA
means the
			 United States Environmental Protection Agency.
(24)
Encapsulation
means the treatment of ACBM with a material that surrounds or embeds asbestos
			 fibers in an adhesive matrix to prevent the release of fibers, as the
			 encapsulant creates a membrane over the surface (bridging encapsulant) or
			 penetrates the material and binds its components together (penetrating
			 encapsulant).
(25)
Enclosure
means an airtight, impermeable, permanent
			 barrier around ACBM to prevent the release of asbestos fibers into the
			 air.
(26)
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, having ten or more
			 dwelling units if regulated under ASHARA or 5 or more dwelling units if
			 regulated under NESHAP); 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 NESHAP is not excluded, regardless of its
			 current use or function.
(27)
Friable asbestos material
means any material
			 containing more that 1 percent asbestos as determined using the method
			 specified in appendix E, subpart E,  40 CFR part 763, Section 1, Polarized Light
			 Microscopy that, when dry, may be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder by
			 hand pressure, and includes previously nonfriable material after such
			 previously nonfriable material becomes damaged to the extent that, when dry, it
			 may be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder by hand pressure.
(28)
Functional
			 space
means a room, group of rooms, or homogeneous area (including
			 crawl spaces or the space between a dropped ceiling and the floor or roof deck
			 above), such as classroom(s), cafeteria, gymnasium, hallway(s), that is
			 designated by a person accredited to prepare management plans, design abatement
			 projects, or conduct response actions.
(29)
Guest
			 instructor
means an individual designated by the training program
			 manager to provide instruction specific to the lecture, hands-on exercises, or
			 work practice components of a course.
(30)
Hands-on
			 exercise
means an activity that requires the student to practice
			 performing a work task or procedure. An exercise or activity in which the
			 instructor shows a student how to perform a task without requiring the student
			 to actually perform the task is a demonstration and not a hands-on
			 exercise.
(31)
Hands-on
			 skills assessment
means an evaluation that tests the trainee's
			 ability to satisfactorily perform the work practices and procedures identified
			 in Section 822-X-2-.04(2)(b)1. -5. as well as any other skill taught in a
			 training course.
(32)
Homogeneous area
means an area of surfacing material,
			 thermal system insulation material, or miscellaneous material that is uniform
			 in color and texture.
(33)
Inspection
means an activity undertaken in a school
			 building or a public and commercial building to determine the presence or
			 location of, or to assess the condition of, friable or nonfriable ACBM or
			 suspected ACBM, whether by visual or physical examination, or by collecting
			 samples of such material. This term includes re-inspections of friable and non-
			 friable known or assumed ACBM that have been previously identified. The term
			 does not include the following:
(a) Periodic
			 surveillance of the type described in  40 CFR 763.92(b)  solely for the purpose
			 of recording or reporting a change in the condition of known or assumed
			 ACBM;
(b) Inspections performed by
			 employees or agents of the Federal, State, or local government solely for the
			 purpose of determining compliance with applicable statutes or regulations;
			 or
(c) Visual inspections of the
			 type described in  40 CFR 763.90(i)  solely for the purpose of determining
			 completion of response actions.
Learning objective
means the
				knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors a trainee is expected to obtain
				from a given instruction activity.