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661 HAZWOPER for General Site Workers II
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Safety and Health Training Program

Equivalent Training

Employers who can document or certify an employee's work experience and/or training is equivalent to the training requirements detailed in 1910.120(e)(1) through (e)(4) are not required to provide the initial training. A copy of the certification or documentation must be provided to the employee upon request.

Certified employees or employees with equivalent training new to a site must receive appropriate, site specific training before site entry and have appropriate supervised field experience at the new site.

Equivalent training includes any academic training or the training that existing employees might have already received from actual hazardous waste site experience.

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2-3. What training must a new employee with documented equivalent training receive?