Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 38, September 20, 2024
a)
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).
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 the following
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 receive emergency response training pursuant to the
federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations at
29 CFR
1910.120(p)(8) and
1910.120(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) upon 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 facility personnel 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.
