| (a) Safety Audit.
(1) The owner of a wastewater treatment facility must
conduct an annual safety audit of the wastewater treatment facility
and collection system that evaluates injuries and incidents during
the prior year in order to determine the locations, causes, types
of injuries, and jobs being performed when the injuries or incidents
occurred.
(A) For the purposes of this subchapter, an injury
is harm or damage to an individual that results in any of the following:
death, time away from work, restricted work or transfer to another
job, medical treatment beyond first aid, or loss of consciousness.
(B) For the purposes of this subchapter, an incident
is harm or damage to an individual that results in first aid.
(2) The annual safety audit must identify the locations
and jobs associated with injuries and incidents and the owner must
develop a corrective action plan with a reasonable risk-based schedule
for implementing corrective actions to address the causes of the injuries
and incidents.
(3) The owner must complete corrective actions according
to the schedule in the owner's risk-based corrective action plan.
(b) Security Audit.
(1) The owner of a wastewater treatment facility must
conduct an annual security audit of the wastewater treatment facility
and collection system.
(2) The annual security audit must be based on the Asset Based Vulnerability Checklist for Wastewater
Utilities (2002) by the Association of Metropolitan Sewerage
Agencies. An equivalent security audit protocol may be used, but only
if approved in writing by the executive director.
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