Figure 1. Comparison of evaluated scores between service providers registered for asbestos and other tasks from the Ministry of Employment and Labor or the Ministry of Environment(Group 1) and service providers designated only for asbestos from the Ministry of Employment and Labor(Group 2); (a) total score(p<0.001), (b) management requirements (p=0.001), (c) personnel, facilities, equipments(p<0.001) and (d) quality assurance of works(p<0.001)
Figure 2. Relationship between sales performance and evaluated scores; (a) total sales performance and normalized scores(p=0.227) and (b) sales performance except supervision tasks and normalized scores(p=0.376)
Table 1. General characteristics of evaluated asbestos survey and monitoring service providers
Table 2. Overview of evaluation fields on quality management of asbestos survey and monitoring service providers
Table 3. Summary of results of the pilot evaluation on quality management of asbestos survey and monitoring service providers
Table 4. Evaluation fields that scored grade “A” with the highest percentages
Table 5. Evaluation fields that scored grade “C” with the highest percentages
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