Code of Massachusetts Regulations
309 CMR - BOARD OF REGISTRATION OF HAZARDOUS WASTE SITE CLEANUP PROFESSIONALS
Title 309 CMR 4.00 - Rules Of Professional Conduct
Section 4.02 - Professional Competency
Current through Register 1531, September 27, 2024
(1) In providing Professional Services, a licensed site professional shall act with reasonable care and diligence, and apply the knowledge and skill ordinarily exercised by licensed site professionals in good standing practicing in the Commonwealth at the time the services are performed.
(2) An LSP shall not provide Professional Services outside his or her areas of professional competency, where this competency is based on his or her education, training, and/or experience, unless that LSP has relied upon the technical assistance of one or more professionals whom the LSP has reasonably determined are qualified in such area or areas by education, training and/or experience.
(3) In providing Professional Services, an LSP may rely in part upon the advice of one or more professionals whom the LSP reasonably determines are qualified by education, training and/or experience.
(4) A successor hazardous waste site cleanup professional may render a waste site cleanup activity opinion regarding response actions performed under a previous hazardous waste site cleanup professional, and that opinion may be relied upon as sufficient to protect public health, safety, welfare, or the environment, only when the successor hazardous waste site cleanup professional has: