{"operation":"document","citation":"98-0221","title":"Dangerous Goods and Cargo Security Program — Hazardous Materials Safety Interpretation","source_type":"guidance","agency":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration","status":"guidance","official":true,"published_on":"1998-08-19","effective_on":null,"summary":"98-0221 response to Dangerous Goods and Cargo Security Program concerning 171.8.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-98-0221.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-98-0221.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-interpretation-98-0221","source_url":"https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/sites/phmsa.dot.gov/files/legacy/interpretations/Interpretation%20Files/1998/980221.pdf","body":"<<<PAGE 1>>>\n\n-\nMemorandum\ni\nof Transportation\nU.S. Department\nResearch and\nAdministration\nSpecial Programs\nDate\nAUG | 9 1998\nReply to Attn of:\nACTION:\nClarification of Iraining Requirements\n• all\nFrom\nEdward T.\nOffice of Hazardous Materials\nMazzullo, Director,\nStandards\nRef. No:\n98-0221\nTo\nWilliam Wilkening, Acting Manager,\nDangerous Goods and Cargo Security Program\nThis is in response to your memo of August 4, 1998, regarding the\ndefinition of a \"hazmat employee\" in the Hazardous\nRegulations (HMR; 49 CER Parts 171-180). Specifically, you ask\nMaterials\nif persons are subject to the training requirements of the HMR if.—\nthey are not assigned to perform any hazardous materials\nfunction, but have incidental contact with hazardous materials in\nthe course of conducting a security-related function (such as\nmoving a box, reviewing documentation to identify the shipper, or\nsearching through a piece of passenger baggage).\nThe term \"hazmat employee,\" as defined in 49 CFR 171.8, includes\nall persons who in the course of employment perform functions\nthat directly affect hazardous materials transportation safety.\nConversely, this term does not apply to every employed person who\nworks at or around an area where, for example, hazardous\nmaterials are loaded, unloaded, handled or stored. The\nemployee's functional relationship to hazardous materials\ntransportation safety, rather than incidental contact with\nhazardous materials in the work place, is the primary factor in\ndetermining whether an individual is a \"hazmat employee.\"\n172.704 apply to an employee,\nThe training requirements specified in 49 CER 172.700 through\nsuch\nperform airline security functions\nas a person who is assigned to\ncargo for bombs or contraband), if that employee performs a\n(e.g., profiling passengers or\nfunction subject to the HMR.\n\"hazmat employee\" is the result of the \"hazmat employer's\"\nAn employee's designation às a\nassignment (implicit or inferred) of job functions to particular\nindividuals, including\nsupervisors.\nawareness/familiarization training required for all \"hazmat\nIn addition to the general\nemployees, \" the \"hazmat employer\" must provide training for each\n\n<<<PAGE 2>>>\n\n31-8\ntrit\n\"hazmat employee\" appropriate to the specific functions that a\nperson 1s required to periorm. It is the opinion of this Office\nthat persons who perform airline security functions that only\nhave \"incidental contact\"\nabove, but do not perform\nwith hazardous materials, as described\n\"hazmat employees\"\nfunctions subject to the HMR are not\nthe training requirements of the HMR.\nas defined in the HMR and are not subject to\nI hope this satisfies your request.\n#\n-\n-.","truncated":false,"body_characters":2649}