Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3745 - Ohio Environmental Protection Agency › Chapter 3745-22 - Asbestos Hazard Abatement › Section 3745-22-01 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1,
			 2024
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				this rule, "referenced materials."]
(A)
(1) "Approved training
			 course" means an asbestos hazard abatement specialist training course, an
			 asbestos hazard evaluation specialist training course, an asbestos hazard
			 abatement worker training course, asbestos hazard abatement project designer
			 training course, asbestos hazard abatement air-monitoring technician training
			 course, or any renewal training course meeting the requirements of Chapter
			 3710. of the Revised Code and approved by the director pursuant to rule
			 3745-22-07 of the Administrative
			 Code.
(2) "Asbestos" means
			 the asbestiform varieties of serpentine (chrysotile), riebeckite (crocidolite),
			 cummingtonite-grunerite, anthophylite, and actinolite- tremolite as determined
			 using the method specified in 40 CFR Part 763, Subpart E, Appendix E, Section
			 1, Polarized Light Microscopy (PLM).
(3) "Asbestos hazard
			 abatement activity" means any activity involving the removal, renovation,
			 enclosure, repair, encapsulation or operation and maintenance of reasonably
			 related friable asbestos-containing materials in an amount greater than three
			 linear feet or three square feet.
(4) "Asbestos hazard
			 abatement air-monitoring technician" means the person who is responsible for
			 environmental monitoring or work area clearance air- sampling, including air
			 monitoring performed to determine completion of response actions under the
			 rules set forth in 40 CFR 763 Subpart E. An industrial hygienist certified by
			 the American board of industrial hygiene is exempt from certification as an
			 asbestos hazard abatement air-monitoring technician.
(5) "Asbestos hazard
			 abatement contractor" means a business entity or public entity that engages in
			 or intends to engage in asbestos hazard abatement projects and that employs or
			 supervises one or more asbestos hazard abatement specialists for asbestos
			 hazard abatement projects. Asbestos hazard abatement contractor does not mean
			 an employee of an asbestos hazard abatement contractor, a general contractor
			 who subcontracts to an asbestos hazard abatement contractor an asbestos hazard
			 abatement project, or any individual who engages in an asbestos hazard
			 abatement project in the individual's own home. Asbestos hazard abatement
			 contractor shall not mean a business entity which engages in asbestos hazard
			 abatement projects solely at its own place of business provided that the
			 business entity is required to and does comply with all applicable standards of
			 the United States environmental protection agency and the United States
			 occupational safety and health, and provided further that persons employed by
			 the business entity performing the asbestos hazard abatement project meet the
			 requirements of this chapter.
(6) "Asbestos hazard
			 abatement project" means one or more asbestos hazard abatement activities the
			 sum total of which is greater than fifty linear feet or fifty square feet of
			 friable asbestos-containing materials and is conducted by one asbestos hazard
			 abatement contractor. "Asbestos hazard abatement project" includes any such
			 activity involving such friable asbestos-containing materials in an amount of
			 fifty linear feet or fifty square feet or less if, when combined with any other
			 reasonably related activity in terms of time or location of the activity, the
			 total amount is in an amount greater than fifty linear feet or fifty square
			 feet.
(7) "Asbestos hazard
			 abatement project designer" means the person responsible for the oversight of
			 asbestos hazard abatement activities or determination of the work scope, work
			 sequence, or performance standards for an asbestos hazard abatement activity,
			 including preparation of specifications, plans, and contract
			 documents.
(8) "Asbestos hazard
			 abatement specialist" means a person with responsibility for the oversight or
			 supervision of asbestos hazard abatement activities including asbestos hazard
			 abatement project managers, hazard abatement project supervisors and foremen,
			 and employees of school districts or other governmental or public entities who
			 coordinate or directly supervise or oversee asbestos hazard abatement
			 activities performed by school district, governmental, or other public
			 employees in school district, governmental, or other public buildings.
			 An asbestos hazard abatement specialist does not mean
			 an individual engaging in an asbestos hazard abatement activity in the
			 individual's own home.
(9) "Asbestos hazard
			 abatement worker" means the person responsible in a nonsupervisory capacity for
			 the performance of an asbestos hazard abatement activity.
			 An asbestos hazard abatement worker does not mean an
			 individual engaging in an asbestos hazard abatement activity in the
			 individual's own home.
(10) "Asbestos hazard
			 evaluation specialist" means a person responsible for the inspection,
			 identification, detection, and assessment of asbestos-containing materials or
			 suspect asbestos-containing materials, the determination of appropriate
			 response actions, or the preparation of asbestos management plans for the
			 purpose of protecting the public health from the hazards associated with
			 exposure to asbestos, including the performance of air and bulk sampling. This
			 category of specialists includes inspectors, management planners, health
			 professionals, industrial hygienists, private consultants, or other individuals
			 involved in asbestos risk identification or assessment or regulatory
			 activities.