Tagged: Asbestos

  • Lead Paint Information

    Lead Paint

    Lead is considered to be one of the seven metals of antiquity. Its unique color properties lead to its use as a pigment on buildings around 3,000 B.C. This quality of lead pigment is one of the reasons that it was used as an additive in paint for thousands of years. Lead compounds, such as white lead (lead carbonate), red lead (lead dioxide), and lead chromate, are the most widely used pigments used in paints, primers, and varnishes.

  • Abatement Design Checklist

    Abatement Design Checklist (PDF)

  • Mercury Information

    Chemical States: Elemental, inorganic, and organic (alkyl/methyl and aryl/phenyl)


    Order of Toxicity (Low to High): Elemental< inorganic< organic (aryl/phenyl< alkyl/methyl) Target Organs/Tissue: Kidneys, central nervous system (CNS)/brain, and skin

    Bioaccumulation:

  • Lead Paint: Best Practices for Painting

    Personal Protective Equipment (As Needed)

  • Hazardous Material Assessments/Abatement Requirements

    University buildings and construction sites may contain hazardous materials (i.e., asbestos, lead paint, mercury, PCBs, petroleum, radioisotopes, etc.) that may be disturbed as a result of renovation or demolition. Federal EPA regulations require that an asbestos assessment be conducted and that abatement take place prior to renovation or demolition, if these materials can be damaged.

  • Asbestos Operations and Maintenance Program

    The purpose of the asbestos Operations and Maintenance (O & M) Program is to prevent the improper disturbance of asbestos containing materials (ACM) and presumed asbestos containing material (PACM); to control the release of asbestos fibers until ACM is scheduled for removal; and to provide corrective measures when asbestos hazards are encountered. Compliance with these measures will allow asbestos to be safely managed in place, nuisances corrected, and danger to human health and the environment to be reduced or eliminated.

  • Asbestos Management Program

    Asbestos is a generic name for a group of naturally occurring hydrated mineral silicates of the serpentine or amphibole series that are characterized by fibers or bundles of fibers of fine single crystal fibrils. It should be noted that these minerals may occur in a non-fibrous form, in which case they are not considered as asbestos. The six major recognized species of asbestos minerals are chrysotile of the serpentine group (white asbestos) and amosite (brown asbestos), crocidolite (blue asbestos), anthophyllite, tremolite, and actinolite of the amphibole group.