Making Holes in Asbestos Floor Tile

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Making Holes in Asbestos Floor Tile

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1.5 million buildings in the United States have asbestos-containing floor tile covering 2.7 billion square feet of floor space!
U. S. Environmental Protection Agency study

Why make holes in asbestos floor tile?

Anchoring equipment or fixtures to a concrete slab or wood floor that is covered with asbestos floor tile

• Penetrating a floor to run conduit, wires or pipes through it or into buried ducts
• Fumigating a crawl space for pest control or termite extermination
• Structural or other inspections of inaccessible spaces
Attaching stanchions to the substrate with powder-actuated devices

This program describes the following work practices
(OSHA Class III work)

Drilling through the tile into a slab or floor with an impact drill

Lifting a small piece of tile after cutting it with a knife or chisel to expose the substrate
Punching a small wafer out of the tile before drilling into the substrate

How do you control dust and fibers?

Use wet methods – soapy water and shaving cream – and prompt clean-up
HEPA-filtered vacuum cleaners are not used, so there is no need to train workers on cleaning and maintaining them

Respirators, protective clothing & decon facilities are not needed if a Negative Exposure Assessment is in effect

All of the procedures described in this program have been shown to control worker exposure below both OSHA Permissible Exposure Limits

Hands-on exercises

Hands-on exercises – where the workers practice the procedures using simulated asbestos-containing materials – are required by OSHA for Class III training. The program instructions tell you how to set up and conduct the hands-on exercises.

Your choice of presentation formats!

The CD contains a complete Powerpoint slide presentation and an illustrated Instructor's Guide with a narrative in Adobe PDF format. It also contains a complete presentation with full-motion video clips and sound effects. There is a separate Instructor's Guide for the video version. For a brief demonstration of a video clip with audio, click on the picture.

This program is used most effectively with the Asbestos Negative Exposure Assessments and Competent Person Training Powerpoint program that explains how to conduct Negative Exposure Assessments and train competent persons to apply the NEAs to specific jobs.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: IBM-PC, Windows 98 or higher, 300MB available hard drive space (for back-up), Microsoft Powerpoint 2000 or later, or Microsoft Powerpoint viewer, Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 or higher, Windows Media Player, RealPlayer or equivalent video software. The software for these applications is not included on the CD.

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Anchoring equipment or fixtures to a concrete slab or wood floor that is covered with asbestos floor tile

• Penetrating a floor to run conduit, wires or pipes through it or into buried ducts • Fumigating a crawl space for pest control or termite extermination • Structural or other inspections of inaccessible spaces	Attaching stanchions to the substrate with powder-actuated devices


Drilling through the tile into a slab or floor with an impact drill	Lifting a small piece of tile after cutting it with a knife or chisel to expose the substrate	Punching a small wafer out of the tile before drilling into the substrate


Use wet methods – soapy water and shaving cream – and prompt clean-up	HEPA-filtered vacuum cleaners are not used, so there is no need to train workers on cleaning and maintaining them

Respirators, protective clothing & decon facilities are not needed if a Negative Exposure Assessment is in effect

Your choice of presentation formats!
The CD contains a complete Powerpoint slide presentation and an illustrated Instructor's Guide with a narrative in Adobe PDF format. It also contains a complete presentation with full-motion video clips and sound effects. There is a separate Instructor's Guide for the video version. For a brief demonstration of a video clip with audio, click on the picture.