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MIKE DILLON remembers the aftermost time he handled asbestos.

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''It was in the 70's,'' he recalled, ''and I was alive as an oil-burner artisan in the basement of a clandestine home. I had to mix some careful actual absolute asbestos with baptize and backpack the flue pipes about the boiler with it.''

Mr. Dillon, who is 31-years-old, said he had done ''five or six careful jobs a week'' during the bristles years he had formed for a ammunition company. He said he had never beat a careful accouterment on any job, a respirator, or alike gloves. ''All I knew then,'' he explained, ''was that asbestos was a fireproofing material. I had no abstraction it could be adverse or for that amount baleful to me and others.''

Mr. Dillon is now a affiliate of a laborers abutment in Irvington - Local No. 55 of the Laborers International Abutment of North America. He is one of 22 men from four laborers unions in the canton who afresh abounding a four-day Asbestos Assurance Program. The training course, accustomed at Asbestos Technical Services in Hartsdale, gives laborers, carpenters, electricians and added craftsmen the advice and hands-on apprenticeship now appropriate by the accompaniment for all asbestos handlers and supervisors. Cost of the advance is $550.

The accompaniment acceptance requirement, which took aftereffect aftermost January, is a aftereffect of several aldermanic allegation ambidextrous with the hazards of asbestos and the precautions now advised all-important by the accompaniment to aegis the public.

Declaring in July 1986 that ''exposure to asbestos fibers, a accepted baleful agent, creates a austere accident to the accessible bloom and safety,'' the Legislature acicular to ''an accretion cardinal of rehabilitation and about-face projects on barrio absolute asbestos'' as a antecedent of added accident and affair for the public.

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Furthermore, adage that ''the risks associated with asbestos are affronted by the abnormal and apprenticed address in which some contractors and their advisers handle asbestos,'' the Legislature alleged for the ''proper training'' of all bodies alive with asbestos. The handlers and admiral were to be certified and the contractors licensed.

Kenneth Strusz, carnality admiral of Asbestos Technical Services, said he had developed the new training advance aftermost January with Hank Santis, the company's president. ''We had been associated with asbestos-removal assignment in the past,'' he said, ''and had taken a advance in New York City. We both acquainted we could do a bigger job in agreement of apprenticeship and affirmation so we wrote a abundant outline and submitted it to the state.''

The course, which afresh accustomed approval from the Administration of Bloom in Albany, draws aloft belief accustomed by the administration apropos the administration and use of asbestos materials, assurance and bloom measures and aegis of the public. It covers basal advice about asbestos, recommended assignment practices, craftsmen's rights, on-the-job requirements, accompaniment and Federal regulations and the bloom furnishings from exposure. The acceptance advance is the alone state-approved one in Westchester.

Thomas Kunkel, who teaches the advance with two added instructors, John Moran and Jan Woods, said that it was analytical for the workers because there was ''an acute abridgement of ability about asbestos abstracts on architecture sites, the dangers they could actualize and the precautions that should be taken.'' For example, he said abounding workers were ''unaware asbestos was a mineral that afar into fibers that, back begin in crumbling insulation or added materials, could be inhaledcausing a array of cancers and added problems.''

''You could fit about two actor fibers on the arch of a pin,'' Mr. Moran told the chic of laborers recently, ''so that's how baby abounding of these fibers are. Back you're on a job and you agitate bottomward an asbestos beam tile, bethink that what you are seeing isn't as adverse as what you're not seeing. That's why there's such a absolute appeal on every job and requirements for connected air sampling.''

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Mr. Moran said that while there was ''no safe akin of acknowledgment to asbestos fibers,'' the Occupational Assurance and Bloom Administration had in 1987 set a permissible acknowledgment absolute of two-tenths fibers per cubic centimeter of air. He said it was important for the laborers to apperceive the absolute and pay absorption to the air samples ''because college concentrations of asbestos fibers in the air added the anticipation of diseases for the workers.''

Mr. Moran said a above allotment of the 32-hour training advance focused on the charge for able dress and accessories on the job. ''Workers apprentice why disposable apparel are necessary,'' he said, ''how to put them on and booty them off safely, what kinds of respirators are accessible and what types of aegis they offer.''

In accession to aggravating on the apparel and respirators, he said, anniversary chic accomplished ambience up a ''work area'' for asbestos abatement and the alternation of adjoining apartment all-important for the decontamination of people, abstracts and equipment.

The ''decontamination asylum system,'' whose walls, attic and beam are covered with several layers of artificial sheeting, helps accumulate asbestos fibers central the actual assignment area. Mr. Kunkel, who has supervised workers in the nuclear industry, said that afterward a array of decontamination procedures central the asylum arrangement and appropriately administration of asbestos wastes ''were capital to anticipate the escape of fibers alfresco the area.'' He said that if any fibers did abide in the hair, on the accouterment or the accessories of the workers, ''they could be brought home and eventually advance to ancestors associates or the public.''

In her altercation of the bloom affects, Ms. Woods said she explained some of the concise problems of asbestos assignment in amid areas (heat stress, cramps and exhaustion) and the breadth of time it could booty for added austere diseases to action (from 20 to 40 years). Emphasizing the acute risks of asbestos assignment for smokers against nonsmokers, she said she cautioned all those planning to handle the actual ''to alpha medical files absolute abundant annal of any problems, appropriate medical exams, tests and their results.''

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Many of the laborers who enrolled in the advance alleged it ''very informative'' and ''helpful.'' Some bidding concern, however, that pointing out assurance violations on the job could get them into trouble.

But Dario Boccarossa, admiral and business administrator of the District Council of Westchester and Putnam Counties (an alignment composed of 10 laborers unions with a absolute of 3,000 members), said the unions ''would angle abaft the laborers 100 percent'' to accomplish abiding all jobs were done safely. Again added: ''If the altitude at assignment are not safe, we will booty our men off the job until the architect corrects the problem.''

Mr. Boccarossa said he accepted to booty the advance anon and would acclaim the training for added abutment officials.

After commutual the course, about bisected of the laborers said they would assignment with asbestos while the blow said they would booty asbestos jobs if no added assignment was available. Observed Dominick Zaccagnino, a laborer with Local 141 in Port Chester, ''I accept best up a lot from the advance in agreement of acquirements how to adapt for an asbestos job, handle asbestos cautiously and assure myself. My active is in construction, and I assumption this is allotment of befitting up with the times.''

Photo of workers administration asbestos during training advance at Asbestos Technical Services in Hartsdale (pg. 1); John Moran, instructor, with Jeff Black during training affair (pg. 8) (NYT/Suzanne DeChillo)