The Asbestos In Shipyards Standard

OSHA solicits public comment concerning its request for anextension of the information collection requirements contained in the Asbestos in Shipyards Standard (29 CFR 1915.1001). This Standard regulates occupational exposure to Asbestos, thereby preventing serious illness (e.g., asbestosis, an emphysema-like condition, mesothelioma, and gastrointestinal cancer) among shipyard employees.

The information collection requirements specified in the Asbestos in Shipyards Standard protect employees from the adverse health effects that may result from occupational exposure to Asbestos.

The major information collection requirements in the Standard include implementing an exposure-monitoring program that informs employees of their exposure-monitoring results; at multi-employer worksites, notification of other onsite employers by employers establishing regulated areas for the type of work performed with asbestos-containing materials (ACMs) and/or presumed asbestos-containing materials (PACMs), the requirements that pertain to regulated areas, and the measures the employers can use to protect their employees from asbestos overexposure; developing specific information and training programs for employees; providing medical surveillance for employees potentially exposed to ACMs and/or PACMs, including administering an employee medical questionnaire, providing information to the examining physician, and providing the physician's written opinion to the employee; and maintaining records of objective data used for exposure determinations, employee exposure-monitoring and medical surveillance records, training records, the record (i.e., information, data, and analyses) used to demonstrate that PACM does not contain asbestos, and notifications made and received by building/facility owners regarding the content of ACMs and PACMs.

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	Employer must re-test, & examine monitored systems, when the work place fuctions or area is changed The employer must reinitiate monitoring whenever there has been a change in the production, process, control equipment, personnel or work practices that may result in new or additional exposures to asbestos above the PEL and/or EL, or when the employer has reason to suspect that a change may result in new or additional exposures above the PEL and/or EL.