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Asbestos Awareness

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Learning Objectives

• What is asbestos and where is it found?

• How to recognise potential asbestos or ACM’s

• Effects on your health

• How to keep yourself safe

• What asbestos work can I do?

• Fulton Hogan asbestos permits and procedures

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What is asbestos?

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State of asbestos

• Friable, in relation to asbestos or ACM, means in a

powder form or able to be crumbled, pulverised, or

reduced to a powder by hand pressure when dry

• Non-Friable, in relation to asbestos or ACM, means

not friable. Includes asbestos material reinforced with

a bonding compound eg. Asbestos cement sheeting

• Friable asbestos is inherently more dangerous

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Where is it found?

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How to recognise potential

asbestos

An easy way to identify potential asbestos is to recognise

common asbestos containing materials (ACM’s) like:

• Cement pipe

• Cement sheet both flat and corrugate (super six)

• Millboard & low density/ insulating board

• Vinyl floor backing material (asbestos paper)

• Gaskets and rope seals

• Lagging around pipes

• Sprayed on insulation

• Bitumen linings and membranes (e.g. malthoid)

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Asbestos cement pipe

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Asbestos cement sheet

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Asbestos LD/ insulation board

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Asbestos gaskets & seals

More Chinese trains to be bought

despite asbestos headache

2:15 pm on 8 July 2016

KiwiRail has confirmed it will buy

another 15 Chinese locomotives,

despite reliability problems and

asbestos contamination in the

engines it already has.

KiwiRail has spent at least $12

million clearing the material from

the engines, and documents show

that 24 - at least half of them - that

had been given the all-clear still

contain asbestos.

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Asbestos pipe lagging

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How to identify asbestos/ACM’s

• The only way to positively identify the presence of

asbestos is to have a sample analysed by an

approved laboratory (IANZ accredited)

• If you suspect asbestos, treat it as asbestos

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Effect on your health

• Breathing in airborne asbestos fibres is a serious risk

to health. Once the fibres are breathed in, they lodge

in the lungs and may cause diseases like asbestosis,

lung cancer and mesothelioma

• Most asbestos-related diseases take around 20 years

before their symptoms start to show

• Risks increase when: People inhale more fibres

Exposure is more frequent

Exposure over long duration

You’re a smoker

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The Adam Sager Story

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How to keep yourself safe

Before starting a job – ask if there’s any asbestos and

review the Asbestos Management Plan (AMP) for the site

or building.

• If there’s no AMP in place but asbestos is present or if

you are unsure – STOP and talk with your SQTE

• Always plan the work to avoid disturbing asbestos

An Asbestos Management Plan must be in writing and:

• Tell you the location and condition of any asbestos

that has been identified on-site and describe how the

asbestos will be managed (controls)

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How to keep yourself safe

During the job - if you uncover or damage materials

that may contain asbestos

• Stop work immediately

• Warn people and keep them away

• Minimise the risk of spreading contamination to other

areas (close off the area, don’t remove anything)

• Get advice (contact your SQTE or manager)

• Do not attempt to clean it up without controls or help

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How to keep yourself safe

During the Job

• Always keep an eye out for suspect looking material

• If it looks like asbestos treat it as asbestos until

confirmed otherwise

• Always read and follow the management plan in place

• Read and follow the applicable procedure, guideline or

permit associated with the work

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How to keep yourself safe

If you must handle asbestos – remember

• Do not dry cut asbestos- ever!

• Use water suppression and sealants like PVA

• Collect and double bag any debris and run off

• Minimise breakage and damage

• Do not use power tools, unless used in a way that

suppresses airborne asbestos

• Always decontaminate yourself and anything else that

leaves an asbestos work area

• Wear and maintain your PPE and RPE

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Asbestos in soils

• Soils that are contaminated with asbestos must be

managed through an asbestos management plan or a

remedial action plan

• If you suspect that soil on a site may be contaminated

with asbestos, stop work and talk to your SQTE or

manager

• A SQEP (suitably qualified and experienced

practitioner). Is required for identifying and managing

asbestos contaminated soils

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HowTo Asbestos

• Video of HowTo – removal of contaminated asbestos

soil - Auckland

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What asbestos work can I do?

Where our work involves asbestos, it is either:

Asbestos removal work or Asbestos related work

• If the work involves the removal of asbestos, that work

is asbestos removal work. The quantity and type of

asbestos determines whether a licence is required

• If the work involves asbestos but is not removal work,

this will be asbestos related work

E.g. transport and disposal of asbestos waste, demolition

work, maintenance and servicing work, work with low level

contaminated soils, work with naturally occurring asbestos

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What asbestos work can I do?

You can only carry out asbestos related work or

unlicensed asbestos removal work if you have

received this or other equivalent asbestos awareness

training and:

• You have been trained in how to safely use

everything you need to work with including PPE/RPE

• You must be knowledgeable about and

experienced with asbestos and other work risks or

be supervised by someone with that knowledge and

experience

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What asbestos work can I do?

You cannot carry out licenced asbestos removal work

unless you hold the relevant unit standard:

• Unit standard 29766 to undertake class A work

• Unit standard 29765 to undertake class B work

And;

• You must be working under a current Asbestos

Removal licence

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What asbestos work can I do?

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Procedures

The following Fulton Hogan documentation is available on the

Hub to guide safe work with asbestos:

• Asbestos Guideline

• Class B and Unlicensed Asbestos Removal Procedure

• Working with Asbestos Cement Pipes Procedure

• Working with Asbestos Contaminated Soil Procedure

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Permits

The following Fulton Hogan permits are applicable to work

involving asbestos:

• Class B Asbestos Removal Work Permit

• Unlicensed Asbestos Removal Work Permit

• Asbestos Related Work Permit

If in doubt remember that ALL work involving asbestos

requires a permit!

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Personal Protective Equipment

• Play video or demonstrate how to wear the correct

PPE and RPE including how to remove and dispose

of after use