Text For Citation: 01 Item/Group: 001B Hazard:

29 CFR 1926.1101(f)(2)(i): Initial Exposure Assessment. Each employer who has a workplace or work operation covered by this standard shall ensure that a "competent person" conducts an exposure assessment immediately before or at the initiation of the operation to ascertain expected exposures during that operation or workplace. The assessment must be completed in time to comply with requirements which are triggered by exposure data or the lack of a "negative exposure assessment," and to provide information necessary to assure that all control systems planned are appropriate for that operation and will work properly. a) On or about March 24, 2024 in Building 28 Room 218, an initial exposure assessment was not conducted for asbestos by a competent person for pipefitters removing copper pipes covered in asbestos-containing TSI.