Current through September, 2024
Section 11-502-4 - Local education agency responsibilities(a) Each local education agency shall: (1) Ensure that the activities of any persons who perform inspections, reinspections, and periodic surveillance, develop and update management plans, and develop and implement response actions, including operations and maintenance, are carried out in accordance with this chapter;(2) Ensure that all custodial and maintenance employees are properly trained as required by this chapter and other applicable federal or state regulations;(3) Ensure that workers and building occupants or their legal guardians, are informed at least once each school year about inspections, response actions, and post-response action activities, including periodic reinspection and surveillance activities that are planned or in progress;(4) Ensure that short-term workers (e.g., telephone repair workers, utility workers, or exterminators) who may come in contact with asbestos in a school are provided information regarding the locations of ACBM and suspected ACBM assumed to be ACM;(5) Ensure that warning labels are posted in accordance with section 11-502-14;(6) Ensure that management plans are available for inspection and notification of such availability has been provided as specified in the management plan, pursuant to section 11-502-12(g);(7) Designate a person to ensure that requirements of this chapter are properly implemented;(8) Ensure that the person designated under paragraph 7 receives adequate training to perform duties assigned pursuant to this chapter. Such training shall provide, as necessary, basic knowledge of: (A) Health effects of asbestos;(B) Detection, identification, and assessment of ACM;(C) Options for controlling ACBM;(D) Asbestos management programs; and(E) Relevant federal and state regulations concerning asbestos, including those in this chapter and those of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. department of Labor, the U.S. department of Transportation and the EPA; and(9) Consider whether any conflict of interest may arise from the interrelationship among certified personnel and whether that should influence the selection of certified personnel to perform activities pursuant to this chapter.[Eff ] (Auth: HRS § 321-11(26)) (Imp: 40 CFR Part 763.84 )