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Hazard Abatement

Ensuring a safe and healthy working environment -- free of radon, asbestos, mold, and other harmful materials -- is vital to employee safety and health and is a top priority for any organization. Employees subject to asbestos and mold in their daily work can develop serious, long-term health problems that affect their quality of life and limit their productivity as employees. Moreover, most countries have developed regulations concerning healthy workplaces, and organizations need to be in compliance with government regulations in order to minimize fines and risk. For example, in the U.S., a single violation of asbestos regulations can result in fines of up to $25,000 per day plus $7,000 per item.

Whether you inherit asbestos and lead paint problems from purchasing an older building, or you confront mold and radon that have developed as results of natural processes, your organization will want to provide a "clean" building that is free from these types of harmful materials. Organizations will find that they can maintain a clean building and efficiently resolve problems when they do arise by using the Archibus Hazard Abatement application to manage the process of locating, identifying, and abating hazardous substances found on site.

The Hazard Abatement application provides a complete end-to-end solution that is flexible enough to adapt to any hazard scenario. The application also provides flexibility in the level of features that you choose to implement. For example, estimating costs for inspection and abatement, prioritizing your inspection tasks, and managing the resolution of identified problems with the Archibus service request technology are all optional features that you can gradually implement as required by your particular practices.

Note: For information on the ways that other Archibus applications support the management of hazardous materials, see Managing Hazardous Materials with Archibus Applications.

Hazard Abatement
Location	This is available in both Archibus SaaS and the Archibus non-SaaS offering Sustainability & Risk / Hazard Abatement
Also known as	Hazardous Materials Abatement Hazmat Abatement Asbestos Abatement
Business Result	Provide a clean and safe work environment free from hazardous materials that can compromise employee health. Reduce the risks, complexity, and downtime associated with the management and handling of hazardous materials in buildings. Efficiently manage your regulatory obligations for assessment, abatement, monitoring, reporting, and documentation of hazardous materials.
Used By	Environmental Project Managers Environmental Hazard Managers Field Assessors Inspectors Abatement Personnel CAD Users Business Process Owners
Reasons for Automating	To gain transparency into the presence of hazardous materials and reduce potential exposures and errors in handling. To identify the key areas that contain hazardous materials that require repair, renovation, or demolition. To reduce errors and omissions in hazardous material management so that hazardous materials are not overlooked, thereby decreasing risk and regulatory violations. To save time by reducing the manual effort involved in documenting the large volumes of information generated by hazardous materials surveys. To share data and coordinate with maintenance staff and other business units in order to reduce exposure to and mishandling of hazardous materials. To better comply with regulatory requirements for locating, identifying, abating, and completely documenting hazardous materials. To provide, through electronic documentation, a defensible audit trail against potential liability claims and rule violations.
Prerequisite Applications	None
Applications Using the Results of this Application	Projects Corrective Maintenance
Reports/Results	Hazard Assessment Summary Chart Hazard Assessment Scoreboard Hazard Assessment Items Summary Hazard Assessments by Location Drill-down Hazard Assessment Count by Location, Year, Project All Hazard Assessment Items Project Activity Summary Hazard Application Summary Buildings and Rooms by Project Buildings and Rooms with Assessments Floor Plans with Hazard Assessments Hazard Assessments by Building Map Hazard Areas and Assessment Items

The following users are typically involved in managing and analyzing hazardous materials found at a facility.

User	Tasks
Environmental Project Manager	Initiate, plan, manage, and coordinate multiple hazardous material projects.
Environmental Hazard Manager	Create assessment items and service requests to locate, inspect, and abate materials. Enter and verify complete material information and inspection results.
Inspector	Update assessment items and service requests with information on locating, sampling, and testing for the presence of hazardous materials.
Field Assessor	Update assessment items and service requests with details of hazmat issues.
Abatement Personnel	Update assessment items and service requests with details of the abatement of hazardous materials.
Business Process Owner	Define basic facility data (such as departments, divisions, buildings, and rooms), as well as hazardous material management practices so that this data is available as choices for the above users when completing forms over the Web.
CAD User	Work in AutoCAD to document on CAD floor plan drawings the areas that contain hazardous material and areas from which inspectors gather samples for testing.