Now a days it’s difficult to enjoy television without watching a commercial describing grim lawyers and morose doctors promising compensation for mesothelioma. Asbestos continues to remain in the spotlight nearly 50 years after federal regulation began. Effects of asbestos exposure on human health are heavily documented and widely acknowledged. With some regional infrastructure coming to the end of its lifecycle, finding and safely removing the carcinogenic building material is a service offered by the GES environmental program.
Improper handling of asbestos containing building material (ACBM) during renovation and demolition projects exposes workers and sometimes the general public to health risks. These risks can expose employers to legal and even criminal liability.
GES has AHERA Asbestos Certified Contractor Supervisors which allows GES to provide area air monitoring, visual clearances, and final air clearance inspections for remediation projects across the states of Nevada and Arizona.
In addition, GES is certified to confirm abatement work meets the industry standard of performance and regulatory requirements, as well as monitor the air space outside the abatement area. When monitored properly, air monitoring documents the presence, or lack thereof, regulated asbestos fibers in the project area.
Removal of asbestos isn’t always easy. Transite pipes, for instance, were installed from the early 1930’s through the 1980’s as both water and sanitary sewer pipe.
These pipes are commonly found in the older sections of a town or city in underground utility work during the upgrading of roadways and in new construction projects. They were previously constructed mainly with asbestos-containing materials and are typically broken during the removal process.
Over 8,000 building materials produced in the USA prior to 1987 have the possibility of containing asbestos minerals within them. Today, building materials imported into the USA for construction purposes can still be found to contain asbestos.
So what does this mean for you?
When a building is scheduled for renovation or demolition, an Asbestos Certified Contractor Supervisor licensed by the state of Nevada, like GES, will perform a building survey. GES can provide both the initial survey and the abatement oversight to confirm that asbestos fibers are contained within the project area and not breathed in by the general public. This monitoring endorses that safe remediation practices are followed during the removal process and airborne fibers are kept below regulatory agency requirements. Once all asbestos-containing materials are removed from the contained project site, GES can provide the visual observations to confirm that asbestos-containing materials were removed from the containment, followed by a final air clearance sampling to show the air within the containment is within regulatory compliance.
If you have any questions or have a project in need of an Asbestos Certified Contractor Supervisor, please contact us.