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Occupational Title: HAZMAT Maintenance Technician
Key Purpose: Treat, monitor, store, and dispose hazardous materials and conduct emergency response.
Critical Work Function
6 Set-up and maintain equipment utilized to comply with hazmat guidelines.  		Occupational Skills, Knowledge and Conditions
Key Activities
Performance Criteria
Occupational Skills and Knowledge
Conditions
Those duties or task clusters that are necessary to perform each critical work function.
Specific demonstrable performance and standards that indicate when the key activity has been performed successfully.
Those skills and knowledge that are specific to the occupation, such as technical processes or procedures common across the occupation that are critical to the related key activity.
Tools, resources and equipment necessary to carry out key activities and their related performance criteria.
6.1 Set up, prepare, and restore hazmat equipment.
Number
Criteria
6.1.1  Set up equipment and tools. 
6.1.2  Identify the need for and comply with factory calibration. 
6.1.3  Decontaminate or properly dispose of equipment in accordance with quality control/quality assurance procedures. 
6.1.4  Post-inspection audit indicates hazmat equipment operating according to manufacturer's design specifications, benchmarks, and baselines. 
Knowledge of manufacturer's design specifications for hazmat equipment and set up.

Knowledge and understanding of the proper use of Personal Protective Equipment. 

Knowledge and understanding of decontamination and mitigation equipment.  		Filing Cabinets 

Decontamination Equipment 

Personal Protective Equipment

Mitigation Equipment 
6.2 Calibrate and maintain hazmat equipment.
Number
Criteria
6.2.1  Provide routine maintenance of equipment, tools, and monitors. 
6.2.2  Evaluate the conditions, status, and wear of materials and products. 
6.2.3  Perform routine maintenance of instrumentation. 
6.2.4  Maintain personal protective equipment (PPE) and respiratory protection systems according to regulations. 
6.2.5  Post-inspection audit indicates hazmat equipment operating according to manufacturer's design specifications, benchmarks, and baselines. 
Knowledge of appropriate procedures to calibrate and maintain hazmat equipment. Testing Equipment 

Equipment Calibration Kits (specific for all equipment) 

Maintenance Tools (screwdrivers, pliers, etc.) 

Personal Protection Equipment  

Manufacturer’s Standards
6.3 Inventory equipment and materials in accordance with hazmat regulations.
Number
Criteria
6.3.1  Label hazardous and non-hazardous materials according to regulations. 
6.3.2  Compile a hazardous materials inventory. 
6.3.3  Maintain a hazardous materials inventory. 
6.3.4  Maintain an inventory of empty and full containers. 
6.3.5
 		Maintain an inventory of equipment and supplies
6.3.6
 		 Post-inventory audit indicates equipment, materials and waste catalogued according to DOT label and placard guidelines.
Knowledge and application of hazmat inventory regulations for equipment, materials, and waste.  

Ability to use computer and common office equipment.  		Office Equipment (computer, typewriter, file cabinets, fax and copy machines) 

Labels and Placards  

Code of Federal Regulations: --49 CFR (DOT)