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Sustainability & Risk / Hazard Abatement / Define Hazards and Samples

Draw Hazard Areas and Items (CAD User)

When tracking your hazmat issues with assessment items, you can optionally indicate in CAD floor plan drawings the areas that have hazmat issues. Visually indicating your hazmat areas on a floor plan drawing can be very useful for internal employees as well as outside contractors. For example:

Typically, a field assessor will make notes or mark on a paper floor plan the exact areas which have hazmat issues. This information will then be passed along to a CAD specialist who will update the floor plan drawings with these locations.

Note: If you are using the Emergency Preparedness application, you will depict on the EP_DRAW_HAZARDOUS layer of your floor plan drawings areas where hazardous chemicals and materials are stored (such as materials that are explosive, corrosive, infectious, biological, or radioactive). With the Hazard Abatement application's Draw Hazard Area task, you are storing on the cb-hazard layer the location of hazardous building materials such as asbestos, radon, and mold that need mitigation. These items do not pose an immediate threat in the event of a building emergency and can be managed separately from the hazardous materials tracked with the Emergency Preparedness application.

Procedure

  1. On the Navigator in Smart Client, select:
  1. In CAD, open a drawing (if necessary).
  2. Set a snap and grid as necessary. The CAD Navigator includes these commands for your convenience.
  3. Prepare the drawing for working with hazmat areas by choosing Set Hazard Layers on the Navigator. This makes cb-hazard the current layer.
  4. Use rectangles or polylines to draw the exact area on a floor that contains a hazardous substance.

Note: When working with assessment items in CAD, you will notice two behaviors not present when working with assessment items in the Web Central environment.

Assessment items are stored in the activity_log table, whose default field headings use the terminology "action items". In the CAD environment, the standard field titles cannot be customized. Therefore, the Edit Data and Attach to Record commands present "Action Item" instead of "Assessment Item."

Also, the activity_logs table is used by several Archibus applications. In CAD, dialogs are not able to filter the records in the acitivity_log table to only those whose activity_type = ASSESSMENT – HAZMAT. Therefore. when using Attach to Record you will need to scroll through non-hazmat items.

  1. Assign the polylines intelligence to connect the hazmat polylines to the database. You can do so in a few methods.
  1. So that the drawings with hazmat information can be viewed over the web using Archibus Web Central, save the drawing with its hazmat information as an Archibus Enterprise Graphic file by running the Publish Enterprise Graphics command, located on the Navigator.
  2. In Web Central, view your asset symbols using the Operational Reports / Hazard Areas and Assessment Items task.