New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 5 - COMMUNITY AFFAIRS › Chapter 23 - UNIFORM CONSTRUCTION CODE › Subchapter 8 - ASBESTOS HAZARD ABATEMENT SUBCODE › Section 5:23-8.15 - Asbestos hazard abatement projects

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) No asbestos hazard
				abatement work including preparation shall be performed or continued without having
				a certified asbestos safety technician at the work area.
(b) Protective clothing, equipment, and general
				procedures for asbestos abatement shall be subject to the following requirements:
1. Only authorized personnel shall be permitted in
				the work area. The contractor shall provide the required respirators and protective
				clothing to all who may inspect or visit the work area;
2. The protective clothing and equipment
				requirements set forth in this section shall be used to prevent the contamination by
				persons engaged in asbestos abatement projects of areas and buildings accessible to
				or used by the public;
3. All persons
				entering the work area shall wear protective clothing. All clothing worn during
				removal operations shall be disposed of as contaminated waste. The requirement that
				clothing be disposed of as contaminated waste shall not include rubber boots,
				respirators, eye protection, hard hats, and other protective clothing, which can be
				easily cleaned.
4. Polyethylene bags
				shall be six mil thick and of sufficient size for their intended use;
5. All tape, spray-on adhesives, glove bags, glue,
				and other materials used in the abatement process shall be of sufficiently high
				quality to serve their intended purpose;
6. The contractor shall have available sufficient
				inventory of protective clothing, respirators, filter cartridges, polyethylene
				sheeting, duck tape, spray-on adhesives, and air filters. Sufficient personal
				protective equipment shall be available for usage by authorized personnel;
7. The contractor shall have available shower
				stall(s) and sufficient plumbing for these showers including hot and cold running
				water and sufficient hose length and drain systems or an acceptable alternate such
				as a portable decontamination trailer with showers. Waste shower water shall be
				added to asbestos-contaminated waste material before disposal in a permitted
				asbestos waste landfill or it shall be solidified using an approved polymer to
				prevent leaks or accidental spills within a facility or during transport for
				disposal to a permitted asbestos waste landfill or it shall be filtered using a five
				[mu] filter and disposed of in the sanitary drain, if allowed by local treatment
				works by regulation or as allowed by permit;
8. The contractor shall have available adequate
				ladders and/or scaffolds and sufficient temporary lighting equipped with ground
				fault circuit interruptors for the asbestos safety technician and all others who may
				inspect the work;
9. The contractor
				shall have available HEPA filter equipped air filtering equipment capable of
				filtering asbestos fibers to 0.3 [mu] at 99.97 percent efficiency and of sufficient
				quantity and capacity to cause a complete air change or total air filtration within
				the work area at least once every 15 minutes. Nothing in this subchapter shall be
				construed to limit the maximum exhaust capacity from the work area. If the situation
				warrants, the specifications for the abatement project may require additional air
				changes per hour. The exhaust capacity from the work area shall be sufficient to
				establish a pressure differential between the work area and all adjacent spaces
				greater than or equal to 0.03 inches w.c. for unoccupied buildings and greater than
				or equal to 0.05 inches w.c. for occupied buildings.
i. Pressure differential shall be monitored by
				digital manometers with continuous printout or other approved low pressure
				monitoring devices. The asbestos safety technician shall zero and level the gauges
				each time a reading is taken.
ii. One or
				more separate pressure monitoring systems shall be installed by the asbestos safety
				control monitor firm near the entrance(s) to the work area and between the work area
				and any interior spaces from which make-up air is drawn.
iii. In unoccupied buildings, if the pressure
				differential drops below 0.01 inches w.c., the asbestos safety technician and the
				contractor supervisor shall investigate and evaluate the engineering controls to
				determine the source of the pressure loss and the contractor shall institute
				corrective action as indicated.
iv. In
				occupied buildings, the procedures set forth in
				5:23-8.19 shall be followed.
10. Air shall flow into the work area
				through all openings, including the decontamination chamber and waste exit ports,
				any areas in the work area where air leakage may occur, and other controlled makeup
				air inlets. Air shall exhaust through the air pressure differential filtration unit
				by means of flexible or solid duct leading outside the building. The air-filtering
				equipment should be positioned at a maximum distance from the decontamination
				chamber to maximize filtration of airborne fibers. Sufficient air shall be exhausted
				by an approved HEPA equipped vacuum truck or HEPA equipped air filtration units when
				necessary to provide air pressure differential. Air filtration units shall be in
				operation at all times;
11.
				Asbestos-containing material shall be disposed of as specified in
				5:23-8.22.