---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 195.403"
title: "49"
number: "195.403"
heading: "Emergency response training."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/195.403"
---

# §195.403. Emergency response training.

- (a) Each operator shall establish and conduct a continuing training program to instruct emergency response personnel to:
  - (1) Carry out the emergency procedures established under 195.402 that relate to their assignments;
  - (2) Know the characteristics and hazards of the hazardous liquids or carbon dioxide transported, including, in case of flammable HVL, flammability of mixtures with air, odorless vapors, and water reactions;
  - (3) Recognize conditions that are likely to cause emergencies, predict the consequences of facility malfunctions or failures and hazardous liquids or carbon dioxide spills, and take appropriate corrective action;
  - (4) Take steps necessary to control any accidental release of hazardous liquid or carbon dioxide and to minimize the potential for fire, explosion, toxicity, or environmental damage; and
  - (5) Learn the potential causes, types, sizes, and consequences of fire and the appropriate use of portable fire extinguishers and other on-site fire control equipment, involving, where feasible, a simulated pipeline emergency condition.
- (b) **At the intervals not exceeding 15 months, but at least once each calendar year, each operator shall—**
  - (1) Review with personnel their performance in meeting the objectives of the emergency response training program set forth in [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section; and
  - (2) Make appropriate changes to the emergency response training program as necessary to ensure that it is effective.
- (c) Each operator shall require and verify that its supervisors maintain a thorough knowledge of that portion of the emergency response procedures established under 195.402 for which they are responsible to ensure compliance.

## Notes

### Amendments

[Amdt. 195-67, 64 FR 46866, Aug. 27, 1999, as amended at Amdt. 195-78, 68 FR 53528, Sept. 11, 2003]

### Authority

Authority: 30 U.S.C. 185(w)(3), 49 U.S.C. 5103, 60101 et seq., and 49 CFR 1.97.

### Source

Source: Amdt. 195-22, 46 FR 38360, July 27, 1981, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[Amdt. 195-67, 64 FR 46866, Aug. 27, 1999, as amended at Amdt. 195-78, 68 FR 53528, Sept. 11, 2003]