Regulatory Requirements and Notifications
Core concepts
Regulatory questions test whether you know who must be notified, when, and what records must be kept. Key ideas: identify ACM before disturbance (inspection and sampling), provide notification to the appropriate authority before regulated abatement work begins, and maintain records of training, medical surveillance, and waste disposal. Candidates should understand the roles of the abatement contractor, building owner, and the regulator, and know that notification timing, worker training, and waste manifests are commonly tested.
Traps in questions
- "Notify after work starts" is always wrong. Notification precedes the start of regulated work.
- Owner vs. contractor responsibility is frequently swapped. The building owner generally bears the duty to identify ACM; the contractor performs and documents the abatement.
- Training and medical records must be retained, not discarded when a project ends.
- Emergency vs. planned work have different notification pathways; do not assume the planned-work timeline applies to an emergency.
Rule of thumb
When a question asks "who is responsible," default to the party that controls the hazard: the owner identifies, the contractor abates and documents. When it asks "when," the answer is almost always before disturbance.
Worked example
A crew is scheduled to begin removal Monday. A question asks when notification is due. Because notification must precede the start of regulated work, the correct response is that it is submitted before work begins - not on the first day of removal.