4 Work practices
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4 Work practices

 A maintenance and monitoring programme should focus on a special set of work practices. The nature and extent of any special work practices should be tailored to the likelihood that the asbestos-containing material will be disturbed and that fibres will be released. In general, four broad categories of work practices are recognised:

  • .1 protection programmes to ensure crew members are adequately protected from asbestos exposure during normal maintenance;

  • .2 basic operations and maintenance procedures to minimise and/or contain asbestos fibres;

  • .3 special operations and maintenance cleaning techniques to clean up asbestos fibres on a routine basis; and

  • .4 procedures for use during incidents of asbestos fibre release episodes to minimise the spread throughout the ship.

In the latter case, the procedures to be followed will vary according to the site of the major release episode, the amount of asbestos-containing material affected, the extent of fibre release from the asbestos-containing material, the relationship of the asbestos-containing material to the air handling systems, and whether the release site is accessible to passengers and crew.

Parent topic: Annex 1 - Maintenance and Monitoring Programme
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