Sustainability & Risk / Hazard Abatement / Abatement Worker

Abatement Worker: Overview

As an abatement worker, you will be assigned a set of facility areas from which to resolve hazardous substances issues. Abatement workers are typically certified to resolve a specific hazardous substance. Depending on the type of hazardous substance, resolution many entail encapsulating the substance with a sealant, encasing it, or removing it. Abatement workers need to follow the appropriate regulations in disposing of any hazardous substance that they remove.

During a hazmat process, a certified abatement worker might perform these tasks:

Abatement workers typically receive the following from a hazmat manager:

Abatement Workers with Access to the Archibus System

Depending on operations at your site, abatement workers may be granted access to the Archibus system so that they can directly update the system with details about the areas they abate. Typically, they will update these fields for each hazard assessment item:

In addition to completing these fields of an assessment item, an abatement worker might have call to work with other features of the Hazard Abatement application. For example:

Tasks

To use Archibus to abate hazmat issues, you will choose the Hazard Abatement / Abatement Worker process. From this process, you can access all the tasks that you require for seeing the list of items assigned to you to abate. As an abatement worker, you may find that some of these fields accessed from these tasks are not available for you to edit.

You will work with these tasks:

Note: The forms that you work with might also be completed by an inspector or a field assessor. Accordingly, the forms may list fields that are typically completed by these users. As an abatement worker, you will find that these fields will be uneditable. Likewise, the help topics documenting these forms may mention fields that are not visible to you and fields that you cannot edit.

Abatement Workers without Access to the Archibus System

If an abatement worker is not granted access to the Archibus system, they typically record their notes on paper or in their own system and provide this data to the hazmat manager who will then input it into Archibus.