Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A.
Instruction 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 Section. The owner or
operator must ensure that this program includes all the elements described in
the document required in LAC 33:V.1515.D.3.
2. This program must be directed by a person
trained in hazardous waste management procedures, and must include instruction
which 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. The
facility operator shall conduct training sessions at regular intervals for
appropriate facility personnel which includes the facilitys
contingency/emergency response teams, in routine plant operation, plant layout,
location of possible hazards, emergency equipment location and operation, the
evacuation plan and route, power and waste stream cut-offs, communications
equipment and phone numbers of all required contacts, and other critical
information and procedures. The facility operator shall afford representatives
of local fire and police departments and local emergency response teams, the
opportunity to participate in periodic training sessions.
5. For facility employees who receive
emergency response training pursuant to Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) regulations in
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 training meets all
the requirements of this Section.
B. Facility personnel must successfully
complete the program required in LAC 33:V.1515.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, 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 in LAC
33:V.1515.A.
C. Facility personnel
must take part in an annual review of the initial training required in LAC
33:V.1515.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 in LAC 33:V.1515.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 in LAC
33:V.1515.D.1; and
4. records
documenting that the training or job experience required under LAC 33:V.1515.A,
B, and C have 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.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
Promulgated in accordance with
R.S.
30:2180 et
seq.
