La. Admin. Code tit. 33 § V-1515

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Section V-1515 - Personnel Training

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.

La. Admin. Code tit. 33, § V-1515

Promulgated by the Department of Environmental Quality, Office of Solid and Hazardous Waste, Hazardous Waste Division, LR 10:200 (March 1984), amended by the Office of the Secretary, Legal Affairs Division, LR 34:993 (June 2008), Amended by the Office of the Secretary, Legal Division, LR 431141 (6/1/2017).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 30:2180 et seq.