The Instructor-led Asbestos Project Designers Refresher Course provides the asbestos professional with a comprehensive review of the design principles necessary for asbestos abatement projects. The course includes a review of regulatory requirements, state-of-the-art work practices, safety, abatement contract documents, and containment design principals and recent changes to applicable regulations. The prerequisite for this course is successful completion and certification from an approved Asbestos Project Designer Initial course.
About the VA Asbestos Designer Refresher Course
Students will be provided a review of building construction utilized in the design and development of abatement projects, abatement specifications, bidding documents, architectural drawings, and schematic representations of material locations. In addition, course will address common uses of asbestos in buildings, health effects, respiratory protection, pertinent regulations, liability issues, asbestos abatement work practices, air sampling and cost estimating.
Topics covered in the Asbestos Project Designer -Refresher course include:
- Overview of abatement construction projects to include clearance of the project area
- Safety system design specifications, including written sampling rationale for air clearance
- Field trip
- Employee personal protective equipment
- Additional Safety hazards
- Fiber aerodynamics and control
- Designing abatement solutions and written project design
- Budgeting/cost estimation
- Writing abatement specifications
- Preparing abatement drawings
- Contract preparation and administration
- Legal/liabilities/defenses
- Replacement
- Role of other consultants
- Occupied buildings
- How to accomplish a complete visual inspection