Friable definition

Friable means a soil condition that is easily crumbled or loosely compacted down to a minimum depth per planting material requirements, whereby the root structure of newly planted material will be allowed to spread unimpeded.

Friable means that the material when dry may be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder by hand pressure and includes previously nonfriable material after such previously nonfriable material becomes damaged to the extent that when dry it may be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder by hand pressure.

Friable means that the material when dry, may be crumbled, pulverized or reduced to powder by

Examples of Friable in a sentence

• All works removing asbestos containing materials must be carried out by a suitably licensed asbestos removalist duly licensed with WorkCover NSW, holding either a Friable (Class A) or a Non- Friable (Class B) Asbestos Removal Licence which ever applies.

• Friable asbestos-containing material is any material that contains more than one percent asbestos by weight, and that hand pressure can crumble, pulverize or reduce to powder when dry.

• Friable asbestos means asbestos-containing material which, when dry, is or may become crumbled, pulverised or reduced to powder by hand pressure.Note: This may include asbestos containing materials that have been subjected to conditions, such as weathering, physical damage, water damage etc., that leave them in a state where they meet the above definition.

• Friable asbestos-containing materi- al—Any material that contains more than one percent (1%) asbestos, by weight, which is applied to ceilings, walls, structural mem- bers, piping, ductwork or any other part of a building or facility and which, when dry, may be crumbled, pulverized or reduced to pow- der by hand pressure.

• All works removing asbestos containing materials must be carried out by a suitably licensed asbestos removalist duly licensed with Safework NSW, holding either a Friable (Class A) or a Non- Friable (Class B) Asbestos Removal Licence which ever applies.

More Definitions of Friable

Friable means that the material, when dry, may be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder by hand pressure or mechanical forces reasonably expected to act on the material and includes previously nonfriable material after such nonfriable material becomes damaged to the extent that when dry it may be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder by hand pressure or mechanical forces reasonably expected to act on the material.

Friable means material which is capable of being crumbled, pulverized or reduced to powder by hand pressure of which under normal use or maintenance emits or can be expected to emit asbestos fibers into the air.

Friable means a material, when dry, that may be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder by hand pressure. The term friable also applies to non-friable material that will intentionally become friable as a result of sanding, drilling, chipping, striking with an object (such as a wrecking ball), or demolition.

Friable means able to be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder by hand pressure when dry.

Friable means asbestos-containing material that when dry

Friable means asbestos material capable of being crumbled in the hand.

Friable means, when dry—