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§ 121.925
(1) The applicant must have a cur-
riculum for the qualification and con-
tinuing qualification of each instructor
and evaluator used by the applicant.
(2) The applicant’s facilities must be
found by the FAA to be adequate for
any planned training, qualification, or
evaluation for a certificate holder op-
erating under part 121 or part 135 of
this chapter.
(3) Except for indoctrination curricu-
lums, the curriculum, curriculum seg-
ment, or portion of a curriculum seg-
ment must identify the specific make,
model, and series aircraft (or variant)
and crewmember or other positions for
which it is designed.
(c) A certificate holder who wants ap-
proval to use a training provider’s pro-
visionally approved curriculum, cur-
riculum segment, or portion of a cur-
riculum segment in its AQP, must
show the following requirements are
met:
(1) Each instructor or evaluator used
by the training provider must meet all
the qualification and continuing quali-
fication requirements that apply to
employees of the certificate holder
that has arranged for the training, in-
cluding knowledge of the certificate
holder’s operations.
(2) Each provisionally approved cur-
riculum, curriculum segment, or por-
tion of a curriculum segment must be
approved by the FAA for use in the cer-
tificate holder’s AQP. The FAA will ei-
ther provide approval or require modi-
fications to ensure that each cur-
riculum, curriculum segment, or por-
tion of a curriculum segment is appli-
cable to the certificate holder’s AQP.
[Docket No. FAA–2005–20750, 70 FR 54815,
Sept. 16, 2005, as amended by Docket FAA–
2018–0119, Amdt. 121–380, 83 FR 9173, Mar. 5,
2018; Doc. No. FAA–2022–1355; Amdt. 121–387;
87 FR 75846, Dec. 9, 2022]
§ 121.925 Recordkeeping requirements.
Each certificate holder conducting
an approved AQP must establish and
maintain records in sufficient detail to
demonstrate the certificate holder is in
compliance with all the requirements
of the AQP and this subpart.
Subpart Z—Hazardous Materials
Training Program
S
OURCE
: Docket No. FAA–2003–15085, 70 FR
58823, Oct. 7, 2005, unless otherwise noted.
§ 121.1001 Applicability and defini-
tions.
(a) This subpart prescribes the re-
quirements applicable to each certifi-
cate holder for training each crew-
member and person performing or di-
rectly supervising any of the following
job functions involving any item for
transport on board an aircraft:
(1) Acceptance;
(2) Rejection;
(3) Handling;
(4) Storage incidental to transport;
(5) Packaging of company material;
or
(6) Loading.
(b)
Definitions.
For purposes of this
subpart, the following definitions
apply:
(1)
Company material (COMAT)
—Mate-
rial owned or used by a certificate
holder.
(2)
Initial hazardous materials train-
ing
—The basic training required for
each newly hired person, or each per-
son changing job functions, who per-
forms or directly supervises any of the
job functions specified in paragraph (a)
of this section.
(3)
Recurrent hazardous materials
training
—The training required every
24 months for each person who has sat-
isfactorily completed the certificate
holder’s approved initial hazardous ma-
terials training program and performs
or directly supervises any of the job
functions specified in paragraph (a) of
this section.
§ 121.1003 Hazardous materials train-
ing: General.
(a) Each certificate holder must es-
tablish and implement a hazardous ma-
terials training program that:
(1) Satisfies the requirements of Ap-
pendix O of this part;
(2) Ensures that each person per-
forming or directly supervising any of
the job functions specified in
§ 121.1001(a) is trained to comply with
all applicable parts of 49 CFR parts 171
through 180 and the requirements of
this subpart; and
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§ 121.1005
(3) Enables the trained person to rec-
ognize items that contain, or may con-
tain, hazardous materials regulated by
49 CFR parts 171 through 180.
(b) Each certificate holder must pro-
vide initial hazardous materials train-
ing and recurrent hazardous materials
training to each crewmember and per-
son performing or directly supervising
any of the job functions specified in
§ 121.1001(a).
(c) Each certificate holder’s haz-
ardous materials training program
must be approved by the FAA prior to
implementation.
§ 121.1005 Hazardous materials train-
ing required.
(a)
Training requirement.
Except as
provided in paragraphs (b), (c) and (f) of
this section, no certificate holder may
use any crewmember orperson to per-
form any of the job functions or direct
supervisory responsibilities, and no
person may perform any of the job
functions or direct supervisory respon-
sibilities, specified in § 121.1001(a) un-
less that person has satisfactorily com-
pleted the certificate holder’s FAA-ap-
proved initial or recurrent hazardous
materials training program within the
past 24 months.
(b)
New hire or new job function.
A per-
son who is a new hire and has not yet
satisfactorily completed the required
initial hazardous materials training, or
a person who is changing job functions
and has not received initial or recur-
rent training for a job function involv-
ing storage incidental to transport, or
loading of items for transport on an
aircraft, may perform those job func-
tions for not more than 30 days from
the date of hire or a change in job func-
tion, if the person is under the direct
visual supervision of a person who is
authorized by the certificate holder to
supervise that person and who has suc-
cessfully completed the certificate
holder’s FAA-approved initial or recur-
rent training program within the past
24 months.
(c)
Persons who work for more than one
certificate holder.
A certificate holder
that uses or assigns a person to per-
form or directly supervise a job func-
tion specified in § 121.1001(a), when that
person also performs or directly super-
vises the same job function for another
certificate holder, need only train that
person in its own policies and proce-
dures regarding those job functions, if
all of the following are met:
(1) The certificate holder using this
exception receives written verification
from the person designated to hold the
training records representing the other
certificate holder that the person has
satisfactorily completed hazardous ma-
terials training for the specific job
function under the other certificate
holder’s FAA approved hazardous ma-
terial training program under Appen-
dix O of this part; and
(2) The certificate holder who trained
the person has the same operations
specifications regarding the accept-
ance, handling, and transport of haz-
ardous materials as the certificate
holder using this exception.
(d)
Recurrent hazardous materials
training—Completion date.
A person who
satisfactorily completes recurrent haz-
ardous materials training in the cal-
endar month before, or the calendar
month after, the month in which the
recurrent training is due, is considered
to have taken that training during the
month in which it is due. If the person
completes this training earlier than
the month before it is due, the month
of the completion date becomes his or
her new anniversary month.
(e)
Repair stations.
A certificate hold-
er must ensure that each repair station
performing work for, or on the certifi-
cate holder’s behalf is notified in writ-
ing of the certificate holder’s policies
and operations specification authoriza-
tion permitting or prohibition against
the acceptance, rejection, handling,
storage incidental to transport, and
transportation of hazardous materials,
including company material. This noti-
fication requirement applies only to re-
pair stations that are regulated by 49
CFR parts 171 through 180.
(f)
Certificate holders operating at for-
eign locations.
This exception applies if
a certificate holder operating at a for-
eign location where the country re-
quires the certificate holder to use per-
sons working in that country to load
aircraft. In such a case, the certificate
holder may use those persons even if
they have not been trained in accord-
ance with the certificate holder’s FAA
approved hazardous materials training