Dollarhide Industrial — Emergency Response | dollarhideindustrial.com
OSHA's 29 CFR 1910.120 sets three training levels measured in hours: 24, 40 and an 8-hour annual refresher.
HAZWOPER is the OSHA standard for hazardous waste operations and emergency response, in force since 1990. It is written as 29 CFR 1910.120 and it dictates who may work on a response site and how many training hours they need before they arrive.
The 24-hour course covers occasional site workers — people who are on a response site only from time to time. The 40-hour course covers general site workers, those with routine access who run or support the job. The split is by frequency of exposure, not by job title.
The 8-hour refresher is the third level and it applies annually. It is what keeps a worker's training current; a worker past the refresher cycle without the update falls out of compliance regardless of the initial course they took.
On narrow screens, swipe or scroll the plate sideways.
The hours are the compliance measure. A certificate without the underlying hours does not satisfy the standard, and an employer checking a crew before deployment checks hours and refresher dates.
The standard has been in force since 1990, so the hour counts are settled rather than experimental. They appear in the regulation text itself: 24 for occasional site workers, 40 for general site workers, 8 annually for refreshers.
The table on the main page lists the three levels side by side with their hour counts, the worker type each covers and the frequency at which each applies.
Further reading