Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
To establish compliance with the experience requirement in
section 4104.19 of the Revised Code, an
applicant for licensing under section
4104.19 of the Revised Code
shall specify in writing to the superintendent that the applicant has had
education, active participation, direct observation, or practical engagement in
the activities listed here relevant to the equipment for which licensing is
sought, verified in writing by a person licensed in accordance with section
4104.19 of the Revised Code to
operate the equipment for which the application is being made.
(A) No person shall be examined for licensing
as a low-pressure boiler operator who has not first demonstrated that they meet
one of the following experience qualifications:
(1) Two thousand hours of operating
experience associated in the direct care, custody, and control of the fuel,
combustion air, water level, steam pressure, system load, and supporting
equipment of a steam boiler not exceeding fifteen pounds per square inch;
or
(2)
Four hundred
hours of operating experience associated in the direct care, custody, and
control of the fuel, combustion air, water level, steam pressure, system load,
and supporting equipment of a steam boiler not exceeding fifteen pounds per
square inch and the successful completion of a fifty hour steam boiler
operation course approved by the superintendent.
(B) No person shall be examined for licensing
as a high-pressure boiler operator who has not first demonstrated that they
meet one of the following experience qualifications:
(1) Two thousand hours of operating
experience associated in the direct care, custody, and control of the fuel,
combustion air, water level, steam pressure, system load, and supporting
equipment of a steam boiler exceeding fifteen pounds per square inch;
(2)
Seven hundred hours of
operating experience associated in the direct care, custody, and control of the
fuel, combustion air, water level, steam pressure, system load, and supporting
equipment of a steam boiler exceeding fifteen pounds per square inch and the
successful completion of a seventy-five hour steam boiler operation course
approved by the superintendent; or
(3) Current possession of a low-pressure
boiler operator license with an additional
four hundred
hours of operating experience associated in the direct care, custody, and
control of the fuel, combustion air, water level, steam pressure, system load,
and supporting equipment of a steam boiler exceeding fifteen pounds per square
inch and the successful completion of a seventy-five hour steam boiler
operation course approved by the superintendent.
(C) No person shall be examined for licensing
as a stationary steam engineer who has not first demonstrated that they meet
one of the following experience qualifications:
(1) Two thousand hours of operating
experience associated in the direct care, custody, and control of the system
load, turbine speed, lubrication, temperatures, and vibrations of a steam
turbine exceeding thirty horsepower or two thousand hours of operating
experience associated in the direct care, custody, and control of the fuel,
combustion air, water level, steam pressure, system load, and supporting
equipment of a steam boiler exceeding fifteen pounds per square inch;
(2)
Seven hundred hours of
operating experience associated in the direct care, custody, and control of the
system load, turbine speed, lubrication, temperatures, and vibrations of a
steam turbine exceeding thirty horsepower or one thousand hours of operating
experience associated in the direct care, custody, and control of the fuel,
combustion air, water level, steam pressure, system load, and supporting
equipment of a steam boiler exceeding fifteen pounds per square inch and the
successful completion of a one hundred twenty-five hour steam boiler and steam
turbine operation course approved by the superintendent;
(3) Current possession of a high-pressure
boiler operator license with an additional
four hundred
hours of operating experience associated in the direct care, custody, and
control of the system load, turbine speed, lubrication, temperatures, and
vibrations of a steam turbine exceeding thirty horsepower and the successful
completion of a one hundred twenty-five hour steam boiler and steam turbine
operation course approved by the superintendent;
(4) Two thousand hours of operating
experience associated in the direct care, custody, and control of the system
load, turbine speed, lubrication, temperatures, and vibrations of a steam
turbine in excess of one hundred horsepower; or
(5) Two thousand hours of operating
experience associated in the direct care, custody, and control of the system
load, turbine speed, lubrication, temperatures, and vibrations of a steam
turbine for electrical generation.
