Section 217.322 - Safety and Security Audits(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.30 Tex. Admin. Code § 217.322
The provisions of this §217.322 adopted to be effective August 28, 2008, 33 TexReg 6843; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 40, Number 47, November 20, 2015, TexReg 8340, eff. 12/4/2015