COURSE TITLE

Building Inspection for Asbestos

COURSE DESCRIPTION

You must take this course or Building Inspection and Management Planning for Asbestos if you wish to collect a sample or conduct a building inspection for asbestos. EPA regulations require you to inspect a building for asbestos prior to conducting a renovation or a demolition job. OSHA says if you own or work in a building built before 1981, many common materials such as fireproofing spray, flooring, and pipe insulation must be treated as containing asbestos. Only an AHERA accredited inspector can sample/inspect such materials to prove they are not asbestos.

This three-day course provides you with a comprehensive review of probable asbestos-containing materials in buildings and techniques for finding them.

This course meets the AHERA training requirement for inspectors and is one of the Cal/OSHA requirements for site surveillance technicians. You learn the most common locations for asbestos in a building and review the most important federal and California regulations that cover inspection issues. We discuss health effects, legal liability and insurance issues. You learn a systems approach to finding hidden asbestos products. Experienced Cal/OSHA certified consultants explain the AHERA protocols for inspection, sampling, categorizing, and recording materials. You practice using this information by doing an inspection workshop in a building containing asbestos products.

Required Textbook

Besides the standard EPA course materials used by most training providers, we'll give you several hundred pages of course material developed and copyrighted by UC Berkeley. No other school even comes close to matching the number and quality of our instructors. The best materials and the best instructors make for the best value in asbestos training.

Advance Enrollment Required

Class size is limited. You will receive a mailing that includes directions to the course site, lodging information, and course materials that should be read before the course if we receive your enrollment at least two weeks in advance.

COURSE DIRECTOR

Tom Wangerin, MS, is the owner of Wangerin Environmental, an environmental training and consulting firm specializing in asbestos and lead issues. Tom is a Cal/OSHA-certified asbestos consultant and a CDPH-certified lead paint Inspector, Assessor, and Project Monitor and is the Director of the UC Berkeley COEH Asbestos and Lead Paint training program. He has a great deal of experience in asbestos and lead inspections and abatement project oversight. He is recognized nationally as an expert in asbestos and lead paint regulations as well as for the program he runs at UC Berkeley.

Other Instructors:

Scott W. Compton
Joe Filan
Michael W. Van Brunt

CREDIT

AHERA accreditation: If you attend this entire three-day course and pass the course exam, you will meet the requirement for building inspector. If you attend the entire five-day course, Building Inspection and Management Planning for Asbestos (which includes this course and two additional days), and pass the course exams, you will meet the requirement for building inspector and management planner.

Cal/OSHA certification: The complete five-day course, Building Inspection and Management Planning for Asbestos (which includes this course and two additional days) is one of the courses required for Consultant certification. It or this three-day course is one of the requirements for Site Surveillance Technician certification.

ABIH credit: 5.0 IH CM points for the five-day course; 3.0 IH CM points for the three-day course.

Course Schedule

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