(a) 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 subchapter. The owner or operator must ensure that this program includes all the elements described in the document required under subsection (d)(3) of this section.
  (1) This program must be directed by a person trained in waste management procedures, and must include instruction that teaches facility personnel waste management procedures (including contingency plan implementation) relevant to the positions in which they are employed.
  (2) 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) communications or alarm systems;
    (C) response to fires or explosions;
    (D) response to ground-water contamination incidents; and
    (E) shutdown of operations.
(b) Facility personnel must successfully complete the program required in subsection (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 subsection (a) of this section.
(c) Facility personnel must take part in an annual review of the initial training required in subsection (a) of this section.
(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 waste management, and the name of the employee filling each job;
  (2) a written job description for each position listed under paragraph (1) of this subsection. 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 (1) of this subsection; and
  (4) records that document that the training or job experience required under subsections (a) - (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 and 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.

Source Note: The provisions of this §335.586 adopted to be effective March 21, 2004, 29 TexReg 2888