To establish compliance with the experience
requirement in section 4104.19 of the Revised Code, an applicant for licensing
under section 4104.19 of the Revised Code shall specify in writing to the
superintendent that the applicant has had education, active participation,
direct observation, or practical engagement in the activities listed here
relevant to the equipment for which licensing is sought, verified in writing by
a person licensed in accordance with section 4104.19 of the Revised Code to
operate the equipment for which the application is being made.
(A) No person shall be examined for
licensing as a low-pressure boiler operator who has not first demonstrated that
they meet one of the following experience qualifications:
(1) Two thousand hours of
operating experience associated in the direct care, custody, and control of the
fuel, combustion air, water level, steam pressure, system load, and supporting
equipment of a steam boiler not exceeding fifteen pounds per square inch;
or
(2) Four hundred hours of
operating experience associated in the direct care, custody, and control of the
fuel, combustion air, water level, steam pressure, system load, and supporting
equipment of a steam boiler not exceeding fifteen pounds per square inch and
the successful completion of a fifty hour steam boiler operation course
approved by the superintendent.
(B) No person shall be examined for
licensing as a high-pressure boiler operator who has not first demonstrated
that they meet one of the following experience qualifications:
(1) Two thousand hours of
operating experience associated in the direct care, custody, and control of the
fuel, combustion air, water level, steam pressure, system load, and supporting
equipment of a steam boiler exceeding fifteen pounds per square
inch;
(2) Seven hundred hours
of operating experience associated in the direct care, custody, and control of
the fuel, combustion air, water level, steam pressure, system load, and
supporting equipment of a steam boiler exceeding fifteen pounds per square inch
and the successful completion of a seventy-five hour steam boiler operation
course approved by the superintendent; or
(3) Current possession of
a low-pressure boiler operator license with an additional four hundred hours of
operating experience associated in the direct care, custody, and control of the
fuel, combustion air, water level, steam pressure, system load, and supporting
equipment of a steam boiler exceeding fifteen pounds per square inch and the
successful completion of a seventy-five hour steam boiler operation course
approved by the superintendent.
(C) No person shall be examined for
licensing as a stationary steam engineer who has not first demonstrated that
they meet one of the following experience qualifications:
(1) Two thousand hours of
operating experience associated in the direct care, custody, and control of the
system load, turbine speed, lubrication, temperatures, and vibrations of a
steam turbine exceeding thirty horsepower or two thousand hours of operating
experience associated in the direct care, custody, and control of the fuel,
combustion air, water level, steam pressure, system load, and supporting
equipment of a steam boiler exceeding fifteen pounds per square
inch;
(2) Seven hundred hours
of operating experience associated in the direct care, custody, and control of
the system load, turbine speed, lubrication, temperatures, and vibrations of a
steam turbine exceeding thirty horsepower or one thousand hours of operating
experience associated in the direct care, custody, and control of the fuel,
combustion air, water level, steam pressure, system load, and supporting
equipment of a steam boiler exceeding fifteen pounds per square inch and the
successful completion of a one hundred twenty-five hour steam boiler and steam
turbine operation course approved by the superintendent;
(3) Current possession of
a high-pressure boiler operator license with an additional four hundred hours
of operating experience associated in the direct care, custody, and control of
the system load, turbine speed, lubrication, temperatures, and vibrations of a
steam turbine exceeding thirty horsepower and the successful completion of a
one hundred twenty-five hour steam boiler and steam turbine operation course
approved by the superintendent;
(4) Two thousand hours of
operating experience associated in the direct care, custody, and control of the
system load, turbine speed, lubrication, temperatures, and vibrations of a
steam turbine in excess of one hundred horsepower; or
(5) Two thousand hours of
operating experience associated in the direct care, custody, and control of the
system load, turbine speed, lubrication, temperatures, and vibrations of a
steam turbine for electrical generation.
