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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:

• A facility manager can post a floor map that shows hazmat areas so that employees can quickly and graphically see areas on the floor that they should avoid.
• A facility manager can provide the hazmat floor plan to both internal or external craftspersons who work on the building, but are not necessarily involved in hazmat abatement. These craftspersons can then take the appropriate precautions if having to perform routine non-abatement work on an area.
• Workers involved in hazmat projects, such as abatement workers, inspectors, and field assessors, can consult the hazmat floor plan to easily find the locations that they require.

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:

• Sustainability & Risk /Hazard Abatement / Define Hazards and Samples / Draw Hazard Areas and Items.
• If CAD is not active, the task presents the Drawing List so that you can choose a drawing to work on. Choose the drawing, and Archibus loads your CAD tool, displays the selected drawing, and makes CAD the active application.
• If CAD is already active, on the CAD Navigator move to Sustainability & Risk / Hazard Abatement / Define Hazards and Samples.

2. In CAD, open a drawing (if necessary).
3. Set a snap and grid as necessary. The CAD Navigator includes these commands for your convenience.
4. Prepare the drawing for working with hazmat areas by choosing Set Hazard Layers on the Navigator. This makes cb-hazard the current layer.
5. 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.

6. Assign the polylines intelligence to connect the hazmat polylines to the database. You can do so in a few methods.

• You may have already created assessment items in the database and you now want to connect them to representations in the drawing. In this case, run the Attach to Record command, choose the appropriate polyline, and scroll through the list to find the existing Assessment Item record. Typically, you will want to have previously jotted down the assessment item's ID number so that you can identify the correct record when scrolling through the list of existing records. The command connects the polyline to the selected record.
• Data edit the polyline, which creates a new Assessment Item (Action Item) record. For information on completing the fields presented by this dialog, see Provide Details on the Location of a Hazmat Assessment Item

7. 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.
8. In Web Central, view your asset symbols using the Operational Reports / Hazard Areas and Assessment Items task.