Health Care and Safety 2012 - Pre-Demolition Engineering Survey - Webinar by ComplianceOnline

This webinar will help you understand OSHA’s requirement for a pre-demolition engineering survey, including what documents to have in place, for renovation and complete demolition of buildings/structures.

Why Should You Attend:

Due to the significant number of fatalities, injuries, fires, spills/releases, and “near misses” in construction/demolition activities OSHA requires an engineering survey to be made by a “competent person”. That person may be a professional engineer (PE), certified safety professional with demolition experience, or a demolition contractor employee with adequate experience and communication/writing skills. The survey may be brief for small structures or extensive for large facilities.

Areas Covered in the Seminar:
- Photographs and descriptions of the structures and what to include in the descriptions
- Assessing and quantifying environmental hazards (asbestos, lead paint, dielectric fluids transformers, etc.) - Phase One Environmental Assessment Survey (ASTM)
- Phase Two Environmental Assessment - sampling to characterize suspect contaminants.
- Phase Three Environmental Assessment - removal of the contaminants in preparation of the demolition
- Power utilities or any potential energy sources to be isolated or discharged
- Areas that need to be identified and permanently isolated with barricades (walkways and stairs in older decommissioned sections of buildings)
- Security measures to prevent unauthorized persons from trespassing or accidentally accessing unstable or unsafe areas