Instructor Qualifications and Regulations

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New Environment, Inc.’s comprehensive Lesson Plans helps enable staff trainers to conduct OSHA required Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response training in-house. Approval as a trainer is required through 29CFR 1910.120 (e)(5), (p)(7) and (q)(7).

29 CFR 1910.120: OSHA Letters Of Interpretations

02-12-1992OSHA Does Not Certify Instructors In HAZWOPER
02-05-1992OSHA Does Not Certify Individuals Or Approve Training Programs For HAZWOPER
12-04-1991Training Requirements Of HAZWOPER
06-29-1988Qualifications For Instructors Under The Training Requirements

Course Regulation

29 CFR 1910.120: Qualifications for Trainers:

• (e)(5): Qualifications for trainers.
  • Trainers shall be qualified to instruct employees about the subject matter that is being presented in training. Such trainers shall have satisfactorily completed a training program for teaching the subjects they are expected to teach or they shall have the academic credentials and instructional experience necessary for teaching the subjects. Instructors shall demonstrate competent instructional skills and knowledge of the applicable subject matter.
• (p)(7)(iii): Trainers.
  • Trainers who teach initial training shall have satisfactorily completed a training course for teaching the subjects they are expected to teach or they shall have the academic credentials and instruction experience necessary to demonstrate a good command of the subject matter of the courses and competent instructional skills.
• (q)(7): Trainers.
  • Trainers who teach any of the above training subjects shall have satisfactorily completed a training course for teaching the subjects they are expected to teach, such as the courses offered by the U.S. National Fire Academy, or they shall have the training and/or academic credentials and instructional experience necessary to demonstrate competent instructional skills and a good command of the subject matter of the courses they are to teach.

29 CFR 1910.120 App E - Training Curriculum Guidelines - (Non-mandatory)

• 3. Instructors.
  • Instructors should be deemed competent on the basis of previous documented experience in their area of instruction, successful completion of a "train-the-trainer" program specific to the topics they will teach, and an evaluation of instructional competence by the Training Director.
  • Instructors should be required to maintain professional competency by participating in continuing education or professional development programs or by completing successfully an annual refresher course and having an annual review by the Training Director.
  • The annual review by the Training Director should include observation of an instructor's delivery, a review of those observations with the trainer, and an analysis of any instructor or class evaluations completed by the students during the previous year.