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SECTION 01421 - DEFINITIONS AND ACRONYMS PART 1 – GENERAL
1.1 Definitions
A. Definitions Relative to Environmental, Health and Safety:
1. Anchoring: To affix wall anchors, support screws and or fasteners into a building surface. A pilot hole must first be pre-drilled into the building surface before the anchoring device is secured. This activity does not require the use of a “shrouded tool” or personal protective equipment (PPE).
2. Asbestos Abatement: Any activity which has as its principal purpose the removal, enclosure or encapsulation of asbestos or asbestos containing material, including but not limited to, activity in connection with the renovation, repair or demolition.
3. Asbestos Containing Building Materials (ACBM): Any material containing more than one per-cent asbestos. (Synonymous with ACM).
4. Asbestos Containing Materials (ACM): (per 29 CFR 1926.1101(b)). Any material containing more than one percent asbestos. (Synonymous with ACBM).
5. Asbestos Containing Waste Material: Any waste that contains asbestos. This term includes filters or other materials contaminated with asbestos. This term also includes regulated as-bestos containing material waste and materials contaminated with asas-bestos including dis-posable equipment and clothing.
6. Asbestos debris: Pieces of ACBM that can be identified by color, texture, or composition, or dust, if the dust is determined by an accredited inspector to be ACBM.
7. Asbestos Management Planner: A state licensed person who uses data gathered by asbes-tos inspectors to assess asbesasbes-tos hazards, determine appropriate response actions and develop implementation plans.
8. Asbestos Project Monitor: A state licensed person who:
a. Collects air and bulk samples and performs visual inspections for the purpose of deter-mining asbestos project completion;
b. Collects environmental asbestos air samples for the purpose of assessing present or future potential for exposure to airborne asbestos; or
c. Functions as the on-site representative of the facility owner or other persons by oversee-ing the activities of the asbestos contractor.
9. Building Surface: ceiling, floor or wall.
10. Certified Industrial Hygienist (C.I.H.): One certified in the practice of industrial hygiene by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene.
11. Competent person: An individual who meets the requirements of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration as a “competent person” for the specific activity involved in the work. The “competent person” must meet the requirements of 29 CFR 1926.32(f) and 29 CFR 1926.1101(b).
12. Coring: To produce a uniform diameter hole in a building surface. (Note: Will be completed by a licensed specialty abatement contractor (i.e., drilling/coring for risers, conduits, etc.)).
13. Drilling: To make a hole in a building surface with the use of a drill. (Note: Will be completed by a licensed specialty abatement contractor (i.e., drilling for risers, conduits, etc.)).
14. Direct Anchoring: To affix wall anchors, support screws and or fasteners to a building surface without the prior drilling of pilot holes. This activity does not require the use of a “shrouded tool” or personal protective equipment (PPE).
15. Friable Asbestos: Any asbestos containing material that when dry, can be crumbled, pulver-ized or reduced to powder by hand pressure.
16. HEPA Filter: A High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) filter capable of trapping and retaining 99.97% of all mono-dispersed particles of 0.3 microns in diameter.
17. HEPA Filter Vacuum Collection Equipment (or vacuum cleaner): High efficiency particulate air filtered vacuum collection equipment with a HEPA filter.
18. Intact: ACBM that has not crumbled, been pulverized or otherwise deteriorated so that the asbestos is no longer likely to be bound with its matrix.
19. Negative Exposure Assessment: A demonstration which complies with the criteria in para-graph (f)(2)(iii) of the OSHA asbestos standard for construction (29 CFR 1926.1101), that employee exposure during an operation is expected to be consistently below the Permissible Exposure Limits.
20. Negative Pressure Enclosure (NPE): A pressure differential and ventilation system where the work area is maintained at a negative pressure relative to air pressure outside the controlled area.
21. Nonfriable Material: Any material that, when dry, cannot be crumbled, pulverized or reduced to powder by hand pressure and has not been rendered friable.
a. “Shrouded tool”: All tasks involving coring and drilling into building surfaces, whether or not the surfaces contain lead based paint shall use tools equipped with close fitting local exhaust hoods (“shrouded tools”) served by a HEPA vacuum cleaner.
b. Thermal System Insulation (TSI) (per 29 CFR 1926.1101(b)). ACBM applied to pipes, fittings, boilers, breeching, tanks, ducts or other structural components to prevent heat loss or gain.
1.2 Acronyms and Abbreviations
A. Abbreviations and Names: The following acronyms or abbreviations, as referenced in the Contract Documents, are defined to mean the associated names. Names and addresses are subject to change and are believed, but are not assured, to be accurate and up-to-date as of the date of the Contract Documents. This list includes only abbreviations and names relevant to Environmental, Health and Safety matters.
1. ACBM (Asbestos Containing Building Material)
2. ACGIH (American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists) 1330 Kemper Meadow Dr., Suite 600
Cincinnati, OH 45240 (513) 742-2020 3. ACM (Asbestos Containing Material)
4. AIHA (American Industrial Hygiene Association) 2700 Prosperity Ave., Suite 250
Fairfax, VA 22031 (703) 849-8888 5. ANSI (American National Standards Institute)
1819 L Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036 (202) 293-8020 6. ASHRAE (American Society of Heating,
Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers) 1791 Tullie Circle, NE
Atlanta, GA 30329 (404) 636-8400 7. CFR (Code of Federal Regulations)
(Available from the Government Printing Office) Superintendent of Documents
P.O. Box 371954
Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954 (202) 512-1800
(Material is usually first published in the “Federal Register”) 8. CMR (Code of Massachusetts Regulations)
William Francis Galvin
Secretary of the Commonwealth State House Bookstore
Boston, MA 02133 (617) 727-2834 Fax: (617) 973-4858
E-mail: [email protected]
9. DEP Massachusetts (Department of Environmental Protection) One Winter St.
Boston, MA 02108 (617) 292-5500 10. DPH Massachusetts (Department of Public Health)
250 Washington St.
Boston, MA 02108-4619 (617) 624-6000
11. DLWD Massachusetts (Department of Labor & Workforce Development) 399 Washington St.
5th Floor
Boston, MA 02108 (617) 727-3452 12. EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
Region 1
1 Congress Street
Boston, MA 02114-2023 (888) 372-7341 13. LBP (Lead Based Paint)
14. OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) (U.S. Department of Labor)
200 Constitution Ave.
Washington, DC 20210 (202) 693-1999 15. RFCI (Resilient Floor Covering Institute)
966 Hungerford Dr., Suite 12-B
Rockville, MD 20805 (301) 340-8580 16. National Institute of Building Sciences
1090 Vermont Avenue, NW Suite 700
Washington, DC 20005-4905
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