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TRAINING PROCEDURES • Read and discuss with employees • Buildings constructed during or before 1980 may have asbestos containing materials unless the biuldings were recently renovated and /or laboratory analysis or monitored air samples prove negative. Building owners must communicate to CSI any knowledge of the presence and location of asbestos containing material (ACM) and /or presumed asbestos containing material (PACM) baesd on available information to him/her. ASBESTOS AWARENESS The following training requirement MUST be acknowledged for each employee working in buidlings known and /or presumed to have asbestos containing material. A. All affected employees MUST have at least two (2) hours of awareness training by a "competent person." This training shall include recognition of ACM and PACM and those activities that can lead to asbestos exposure (i.e. floor buffing and stripping, dusting and vacuuming). B. All affected employees MUST be informed of uses and forms of asbestos in buildings. • C. All affected employees MUST be made aware of the hazards and health effects associated with asbestos exposure. D. All affected employees MUST be shown where, in the building, ACN"ACM is located. E. All affected employees MUST be trained to recognize deteriorating and /or damaged ACM. F. All affected employees MUST be trained to utilize protective means to minimize their exposure (i.e. misting floors prior to buffing and never dry stripping a floor) Floor Maintenance (Asphalt and vinyl flooring installed no later than 1980) 1. Sanding or scraping asbestos containing floor material is prohibited. 2. Stripping finish from asbestos containing floor material will be conducted using low abrasion pads at speeds lower than 300 rpm and utilizing wet methods. Burnishing or dry buffing may be performed only on asbestos containing flooring which has sufficient finish so that the pad cannot contact the bare floor material. 30