Washington Administrative Code › Title 173 - Ecology, Department of (See also Titles 197, 317, 372, and 508) › Chapter 173-180 - Facility oil handling standards › Part E - TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION FOR CLASS 1 AND CLASS 2 FACILITIES › Section 173-180-510 - Class 1 facility-Training requirements

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1) Each Class 1
				facility must develop, implement, and maintain oil transfer training and
				written materials, such as training manuals or checklists, for supervisory,
				operations, maintenance, management, and indirect operations personnel
				identified in subsection (4) of this section.
If the facility has an approved equivalent compliance plan,
				  all personnel must be trained on this plan.
(2) The facility must design a training
				program, which will to the maximum extent practicable, promote job competency
				for oil transfer operations and environmental awareness for the purpose of
				preventing oil spills.
(3)
				Non-English speaking personnel subject to the facility's training requirements
				must be trained in a manner that allows comprehension by such
				personnel.
(4) The facility must
				identify, in writing, the specific position titles which the facility has
				identified to be subject to its oil transfer training requirements. In making
				this determination, the facility must evaluate the functions of facility
				personnel positions using the following definitions:
(a) "Operations" means direct involvement in
				the transfer, storage, handling, or monitoring of oil at a facility in a
				capacity that involves the risk of an oil spill to waters of the state. This
				functional group includes, but is not limited to, the person in charge (PIC),
				storage tank operators, pipeline operators, and oil transfer
				monitors.
(b) "Supervisory" means
				direct involvement in supervising personnel engaged in the transfer, storage,
				handling, or monitoring of oil at a facility by implementing operations
				policies and procedures that involve the risk of an oil spill to waters of the
				state.
(c) "Maintenance" means
				direct involvement in maintaining and repairing the equipment used for the
				transfer, storage, handling, or monitoring of oil at a facility in a capacity
				that involves the risk of an oil spill to waters of the state.
(d) "Management" means a general manager or
				other individual who exercises operational or managerial control over
				day-to-day operations of a facility's oil handling, transfer, storage, and
				monitoring/leak detection operations and oil spill prevention.
(e) "Indirect operations" means involvement
				in on-site activities, such as new construction, in a capacity that indirectly
				involves the risk of an oil spill to waters of the state due to potential
				impacts to nearby oil handling operations (e.g., operating digging equipment
				next to an active transfer pipeline). For cases where certain job titles
				associated with indirect operations cannot be identified in advance, the
				facility must identify the types of job orders or work sites which may involve
				the need for indirect operations oil transfer training.