Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-843 - Hazardous waste operations › Section 296-843-20010 - Train workers, supervisors and managers before work begins on the site

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
IMPORTANT:
1. The eighty-hour training
			 requirement does NOT apply to law enforcement personnel entering
			 illicit drug labs, securing the premises, and obtaining evidence.
			 Attendance at a forty-hour training course, such as presented by the
			 criminal justice training commission, is acceptable.
2. These training requirements do
			 not apply to workers engaged in limited postemergency response
			 activities provided they meet the conditions described in WAC
			 296-843-20020.
(1) You must make sure workers have
			 received twenty-four-, forty- or eighty-hour training as required by
			 Table 3 before participating in hazardous waste operations.
(2) You must make sure workers also
			 receive site-specific training that thoroughly covers at least the
			 following:
(a) The personnel
			 responsible for employee safety and health.
(b) Safety, health, and other
			 hazards known or suspected at the site.
(c) Use of personal protective
			 equipment.
(d) Work
			 practices to minimize worker's risk from the hazards.
(e) Use of engineering and other
			 controls and equipment on the site.
(f) Medical surveillance
			 provided.
(g) Recognition
			 of signs and symptoms that might indicate overexposure to site
			 hazards.
(h) The contents
			 of the site-specific health and safety plan (HASP) required by this
			 chapter.
Note:
The site-specific training can be provided
						  as part of the twenty-four-, forty- or eighty-hour training or as
						  part of the employee briefings provided all training and information
						  requirements of WAC
						  296-843-200
						  are met.
Table 3 Training Requirements
If
Then
Notes
Work and exposures require use of
						atmosphere supplying respirators
Provide eighty hours of training
						and three days of supervised on-site field experience
Eighty-hour training may be fulfilled as
						  follows:
* One eighty-hour training session with
						  emphasis on hazards requiring the use of atmosphere-supplying
						  respirators and of chemical protective clothing
OR
* One forty-hour training class as described
						  below and an additional forty hours of training that emphasizes
						  hazards requiring the use of atmosphere-supplying respirators and of
						  chemical protective clothing Refresher training, previous courses,
						  supervised field experience, and previous work experience may count
						  towards the additional forty hours, if it improves the worker's
						  competency to use respirators and chemical protective clothing
						  ensembles and procedures
Work and exposures may exceed the
						PEL or require protective clothing but do not require atmosphere
						supplying respirators
Provide forty hours of training and
						three days of supervised on-site field experience
Workers with twenty-four hours of
						training may become forty hour trained with sixteen hours of off-site
						training and two additional days of supervised on-site field
						experience
Workers are occasionally on-site to
						perform specific limited tasks and unlikely to be exposed above PELs
						or other published exposure limits
Provide twenty-four hours of
						training and one day of supervised on-site field experience
Workers are regularly on-site but work in
						  areas fully characterized and monitored, with exposure under the PELs
						  or other published exposure limits:
* No need for respirators
* No health hazards
* No possibility of an emergency
Provide twenty-four hours of
						training and one day of supervised on-site field experience
Workers are at TSD facilities under
						normal operations (this does not include corrective actions cleanup
						at these facilities)
Provide twenty-four hours of
						training and one day of supervised on-site field experience
Employees perform emergency
						response activities
Train workers to a level of
						competence in site emergencies, consistent with their assigned
						duties, to protect themselves and other employees
Workers qualify for limited
						postemergency response clean-up training
Provide at least eight hours of
						training
See WAC
						296-843-20020,
						Training for postemergency response, for detailed training
						information
Workers have been previously
						trained (includes equivalent training)
Provide site-specific training,
						briefings and information required by this chapter and supervised
						field experience on the site of one day for twenty-four-hour and
						three days for forty- or eighty-hour trained workers
Document equivalent training and
						work experience as required by WAC
						296-843-20025
Note:
When calculating "training hours,"
						DOSH assumes a "normal" workday of eight hours with sufficient time
						for lunch and other breaks.