Asbestos Operations and Maintenance (O&M)

The Asbestos Operations and Maintenance (O&M) program has been developed and written by the university’s Environmental Health & Safety Department (EH&S) and is the campus standard for O&M activities that will disturb asbestos-containing materials(ACM). It is the responsibility of each individual department on campus who wishes to implement this program to ensure the procedures are followed, and that employees maintain current training, respiratory fit testing, and medical surveillance. The objective of this program is to outline the work practices, training requirements, and processes put in place by EH&S to protect building occupants and university employees from asbestos exposure associated with O&M activities. O&M activities or Class III asbestos work means repair and maintenance operations, where “ACM”, including TSI and surfacing ACM and Presumed Asbestos containing materials(PACM), is likely to be disturbed. The O&M program is intended for University of Colorado Boulder employees who have been trained for O&M work by EH&S in accordance with this program. This program is not intended or designed for contractors conducting asbestos abatement on the Boulder campus.  It is the contractor competent person to implement their companies own O&M program.

Contact your supervisor to enroll in the Medical surveillance and schedule the O&M training.