Alaska Statutes Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender § 18.31.200. Certification programs

(1) establish guidelines for employee training certification programs, including respiratory and competency tests to be completed successfully, to ensure that a person who is employed to abate asbestos health hazards is trained to do the work safely and is informed about the danger of working with asbestos;

(2) review certification programs proposed by contractors, labor organizations, public and private vocational training programs, and others for persons who will be employed to abate asbestos health hazards;

(3) approve proposed certification programs that meet the department's guidelines under this subsection;

(4) assist in meeting the certification guidelines those whose certification program proposals have been found unacceptable.

(1) propose to the Department of Labor and Workforce Development a plan for the certification of its employees as adequately trained to handle asbestos in a safe and knowledgeable way;

(2) receive approval from the department of that plan; and

(3) certify that each person who will work on the abatement of an asbestos health hazard is adequately trained to handle asbestos in a safe and knowledgeable way.

(1) review, approval, and certification of asbestos training certification programs and plans under this section; and

(2) certification of a person employed to abate an asbestos health hazard.