Building Inspector Course
Content
- Background information on asbestos
- Potential health effects related to asbestos exposure
- Functions, qualifications, and role of inspectors
- Legal liability and defense
- Understanding building systems
- Public, employee, building occupant relations
- Pre-inspection planning and review of previous inspections
- Inspecting for friable and nonfriable asbestos-containing material (ACM) and assessing the condition of friable ACM
- Bulk sampling and documentation of asbestos in schools
- Inspector respiratory protection and personal protective equipment
- Record keeping and writing the asbestos report
- Regulatory review, including EPA Worker Protection Rule, Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA), OSHA Asbestos Construction Standard, OSHA respirator requirements, applicable state and local regulations
- Practice inspection
Refresher Course
- Review and discuss changes in basic considerations and procedures for locating and identifying asbestos
- Review health and legal programs associated with asbestos
- Review proper asbestos control
- Changes in federal and state regulations
- Developments in state-of-the-art procedures for asbestos
- Review of key aspects of the initial training course
Fees, Deposit and Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
Building Inspector
Fee – $535
Deposit – $95
CEUs – 1.8
Building Inspector Refresher
Fee – $130
Deposit – $22
CEUs – 0.4
