Rule 3745-267-15 | General inspection requirements - standardized permitting.
(A) Owners or operators shall inspect the facility for malfunctions and deterioration, operator errors, and discharges that may be causing, or may lead to:
(1) Release of hazardous waste constituents to the environment; or
(2) A threat to human health. Owners or operators shall conduct the inspections often enough to identify problems in time to correct the problems before the problems result in harm to human health or the environment.
(B) Owners or operators shall develop and follow a written schedule for inspecting, monitoring equipment, safety and emergency equipment, security devices, and operating and structural equipment (such as dikes and sump pumps) that are important to preventing, detecting, or responding to environmental or human health hazards.
(1) Owners or operators shall keep the schedule at the facility.
(2) The schedule shall identify the equipment and devices the owner or operator will inspect and what problem the owner or operator will look for, such as malfunctions or deterioration of equipment (for example, inoperative sump pump, leaking fitting, etc.).
(3) The frequency of the owner or operators inspections may vary for the items on the schedule. However, the frequency should be based on the rate of deterioration of the equipment and the probability of an environmental or human health incident of the deterioration, malfunction, or any operator error goes undetected between inspections. Areas subject to spills, such and loading and unloading areas, shall be inspected daily when in use. At a minimum, the inspection schedule shall include the items and frequencies required in paragraph (E) of rule 3745-267-170, rules 3745-267-193, 3745-267-195, and 3745-267-903, and rules 3745-205-33, 3745-205-52, 3745-205-53, 3745-205-58, and 3745-205-83 to 3745-205-89 of the Administrative Code where applicable.
(C) Owners or operators shall remedy any deterioration or malfunction of equipment or structures that the inpsection reveals in time to prevent any environmental or human health hazard. Where a hazard is imminent or has already occurred, owners or operators shall take remedial action immediately.
(D) Owners or operators shall record all inspections. Owners or operators shall keep the records for at least three years after the date of the inspection. At a minimum, owners or operators shall include the date and time of the inspection, the name of the inspector, a notation of the observations made, and the date and nature of any repairs or other remedial actions.
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