Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 9, September 27, 2024
(a)
(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
paragraph (d) (3).
[Comment: Part 270 requires that owners and operators
submit with Part B of the 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 job tasks.]
(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:
(i) Procedures
for using, inspecting, repairing, and replacing facility emergency and
monitoring equipment;
(ii) Key
parameters for automatic waste feed cut-off system;
(iii) Communications or alarm
systems;
(iv) Response to fires or
explosions;
(v) Response to
groundwater contamination incidents; and,
(vi) Shutdown of operations.
(4) For facility employees that
receive emergency response training pursuant to Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) regulations
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 paragraph (a) of this Section 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 paragraph (a) of this Section.
(c) Facility personnel must take part in an
annual review of the initial training required in paragraph (a) of this
Section.
(d) The owner or operator
must maintain the following documents and records at the facility:
(1) The job titles 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 paragraph (d)(1) of this Section.
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 paragraph (d)(1) of this
Section;
(4) Records that document
that the training or job experience required under paragraphs (a), (b), and (c)
of this Section 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 of the employee last worked at the facility. Personnel training
records may accompany personnel transferred within the same company.
(f) R.61-79.270 Subpart B requires that
owners and operator submit, with Part B of the 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 job
tasks.
