Section 406.200  Personnel Requirements

a)         The laboratory director shall be a person holding a minimum of a bachelor's degree in natural or physical sciences with at least 24 semester hours in chemistry or microbiology or both, and shall have had a minimum of 5 years experience in an environmental laboratory.

b)         An analyst is a full-time employee holding a minimum of a bachelor's degree in chemistry, radiochemistry, radioisotope technology or related natural science fields and having had at least 2 years of experience in radiation and radiochemical procedures.

c)         An analyst assistant is a person holding a high school diploma or its equivalent and having had a minimum of 6 months of training or experience or both in routine radiochemistry.  Analyst assistants can perform the measurement of gross alpha and gross beta radioactivity.  Analyst assistants may assist in routine sample preparation and radioanalytical procedures provided that such work is supervised and validated by an analyst or principal supervisor.

d)         An analyst trainee is a person holding a high school diploma or its equivalent.  During the period of training, an analyst trainee shall work under the direct supervision of a principal supervisor, an analyst or an analyst assistant, but shall not exercise independent judgement.