Who’s Covered?

Licenses, Registrations, and renewals…do you know what you need?

One of the most important aspects of staying on top of your safety program, besides proper safety training, is knowing what regulations pertain to you and your employees. OSHA has clearly defined who is covered by OSHA’s HAZWOPER standard, or otherwise know as the Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response Standard.

This standard applies specifically to (5) groups of individuals:

• Clean-up operations – required by a governmental body, whether federal, state, local, or other involving hazardous substances – that are conducted at uncontrolled hazardous sites
• Corrective actions involving clean-up operations at sites covered by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (RCRA)
• Voluntary clean-up operations at sites recognized by federal, state, local, or other governmental body as uncontrolled hazardous waste sites
• Operations involving hazardous wastes that are conducted at treatment, storage, and disposal facilities regulated by Title 40 Code of Federal Regulations Parts 264 and 265 pursuant to RCRA, or by agencies under agreement with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to implement RCRA regulations
• Emergency response operations for releases of, or substantial threats of releases of, hazardous substances regardless of the location of the hazard

This standard may be a little confusing to some employers so to verify where your employees fall, feel free to reach OSHA at 1-800-321-OSHA (6742).