Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 11 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Subtitle 1 - GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 25 - RULES RELATING TO CERTIFICATION OF PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM OPERATORS
Section 11-25-4 - Education and work experience requirements for certification
Current through February, 2024
(a) To qualify for certification, operators shall have the following education and work experience unless otherwise provided in section 11-25-3. The minimum educational requirement for all five grades is a high school degree, or general equivalency diploma (GED).
(b) The minimum work experience requirements for WTPO certification are as follows:
(c) The minimum work experience requirements for DSO certification are as follows:
(d) The minimum education and work experience requirements in years are summarized as follows:
TABLE 1 MINIMUM WORK EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
Total Years of Work Experience |
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GRADE |
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Degree |
OIT |
1 |
2 |
3a |
4b |
High School |
0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Qualifying Associate degree |
0 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
Qualifying Bachelor's degree |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
aFor the WTPO Grade 3 certification, the years of work experience must include at least one year of full-time work experience at a membrane filtration. Class 3, or Class 4 WTP (of which at least one month of work experience is at a Class 3 or 4 WTP).
bFor the WTPO Grade 4 certification, the years of work experience must include at least one year of full-time work experience at a membrane filtration. Class 3, or Class 4 WTP, and at least one year of full-time work experience at a Class 3 or 4 WTP.
(e) The duration of the work experience in a currently held position shall be calculated up to the examination date. For WTPO certification, to earn a "year of work experience," a person shall operate a WTP for at least one hour per day for each of at least two hundred days. To earn a "year of full-time work experience," a person shall either operate a WTP for at least eight hours per day for each of at least two hundred days or for a cumulative time of 1,600 hours (two hundred days times eight hours per day). For DSO certification, to earn a "year of work experience", a person shall operate a DS for at least one hour per day for each of at least two hundred days. A "year of work experience" or a "year of full-time work experience" may be accumulated over the course of more than twelve consecutive months, but no more than one year of such experience may be accumulated within a twelve-consecutive-month period.
(f) A qualifying bachelor's degree is a bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited university in which the applicant has earned at least twenty adjusted semester credits from the courses listed in Appendix A entitled "Courses for Qualifying Bachelor's or Associate Degrees (May 1, 2000)", located at the end of this chapter.
(g) A qualifying associate degree is an associate degree or higher in which the applicant has earned at least twelve adjusted semester credits from the courses listed in Appendix A, entitled "Courses for Qualifying Bachelor's or Associate Degrees (May 1, 2000)", located at the end of this chapter.