A state EPD official who grew up in Coweta County says many of the people who work in asbestos removal have false documents.
Don McCarty, Northeast District manager for the Georgia Environmental Protection Division, told members of White Oak Golden K in Newnan that Georgia has a number of regulations regarding asbestos -- including a requirement for people who work at asbestos removal to complete certain training. A certificate program shows a person has completed that training, but McCarty told the group of about 70 at the Special Events Center that many of the people who can produce a certificate have not actually earned one.
He said that when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency checked a site in Florida where 89 people were working, the EPA found a third of the workers had authentic certificates, a third were working with a bogus certificate and/or Social Security number and a third had certificates with the names of "people who were dead."
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Fake certificates are sometimes made for illegal aliens, and sometimes workers have multiple false certificates from different states.
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