Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 38, September 20, 2024
a) The
Personnel Training Program
1) Facility
personnel must successfully complete a program of classroom instruction or
on-the-job training that teaches them to perform their duties in a way that
ensures the facility's compliance with the requirements of this Part. The owner
or operator must ensure that this program includes all the elements described
in the document required under subsection (d)(3).
BOARD NOTE: 35 Ill. Adm. Code 703 requires that owners and
operators submit with Part B of the RCRA permit application, an outline of the
training program used (or to be used) at the facility and a brief description
of how the training program is designed to meet actual jobs tasks.
2) This program must be directed
by a person trained in hazardous waste management procedures, and must include
instruction that teaches facility personnel hazardous waste management
procedures (including contingency plan implementation) relevant to the
positions in which they are employed.
3) At a minimum, the training program must be
designed to ensure that facility personnel are able to respond effectively to
emergencies by familiarizing them with emergency procedures, emergency
equipment, and emergency systems, including, where applicable:
A) Procedures for using, inspecting,
repairing, and replacing facility emergency and monitoring equipment;
B) Key parameters for automatic waste feed
cut-off systems;
C) Communications
or alarm systems;
D) Response to
fires or explosions;
E) Response to
groundwater contamination incidents; and
F) Shutdown of operations.
4) For facility employees that
have receive emergency response training pursuant to the federal Occupational
Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations at
29 CFR
1910.120(p)(8) and (q), the
facility is not required to provide separate emergency response training
pursuant to this Section, provided that the overall facility OSHA emergency
response training meets all the requirements of this
Section.
b) Facility
personnel must successfully complete the program required in subsection (a)
within six months after the effective date of these regulations or six months
after the date of their employment or assignment to a facility, or to a new
position at a facility, whichever is later. Employees hired after the effective
date of these regulations must not work in unsupervised positions until they
have completed the training requirements of subsection (a).
c) Facility personnel must take part in an
annual review of the initial training required in subsection (a).
d) The owner or operator must maintain the
following documents and records at the facility:
1) The job title for each position at the
facility related to hazardous waste management, and the name of the employee
filling each job;
2) A written job
description for each position listed under subsection (d)(1). This description
may be consistent in its degree of specificity with descriptions for other
similar positions in the same company location or bargaining unit, but must
include the requisite skill, education or other qualifications, and duties of
employees assigned to each position;
3) A written description of the type and
amount of both introductory and continuing training that will be given to each
person filling a position listed under subsection (d)(1);
4) Records that document that the training or
job experience required under subsections (a), (b), and (c) has been given to,
and completed by, facility personnel.
e) Training records on current personnel must
be kept until closure of the facility; training records on former employees
must be kept for at least three years from the date the employee last worked at
the facility. Personnel training records may accompany personnel transferred
within the same company.
