WAC 67-25-394   Vocational rehabilitation services -- Training -- On-the-job.  (1) On-the-job training (OJT) is training service an employer provides to a customer, after the individual is placed in a job, to assist the customer to learn the skills needed to perform the work. On-the-job training may be provided as a vocational rehabilitation service to achieve the customer's employment outcome.

     (2) OJT services shall be provided as a program of organized training resulting in employment of the customer, giving the individual the opportunity to learn an occupation under actual conditions of commercial, industrial, or other on-the-job employment. The department will pay for the training costs, and the employer is responsible for costs related to employment.

     (3) OJT services shall be provided to a customer only when the vocational rehabilitation counselor establishes that the following conditions have been met:

     (a) The training program has been prepared in advance and outlined in detail;

     (b) The customer's training will follow a definite schedule of specified operations, instructions, and practices which will insure well-rounded preparation for the customer's selected occupation;

     (c) A mutual understanding has been reached between the trainee -- customer, the trainer -- employment training provider, and the vocational rehabilitation counselor regarding the customer's employment training plan including: Length of the training period; financial arrangements; and operations and skills to be learned;

     (d) The employer agrees to closely supervise the customer's work and shall submit regular reports on the customer's progress and performance to the vocational rehabilitation counselor;

     (e) The training program meets any requirements for licensing in the trade or occupation in which the customer is to be employed;

     (f) The employment training program for the customer is acceptable to other employees of the training provider.

     (4) A business or industrial establishment utilized by the department to provide OJT services shall:

     (a) Have personnel qualified with appropriate knowledge, skills, and personality to provide instruction;

     (b) Have sufficiently diversified operations and adequate, suitable materials and equipment to insure a trainee thorough preparations and training within the scope and limits of his or her occupational objective;

     (c) Ensure that training vocational rehabilitation customers is only incidental to the business activity of the facility;

     (d) Ensure that the training program shall be consistent with the informed choice of the customer, and designed to assist him or her to achieve an employment outcome in an integrated setting.



[Statutory Authority: Chapter 74.18 RCW. 05-08-097, § 67-25-394, filed 4/4/05, effective 5/5/05. Statutory Authority: Chapter 74.15 RCW. 95-06-057, § 67-25-394, filed 2/28/95, effective 3/31/95. Statutory Authority: 1983 c 194 § 18. 84-01-042 (Order 83-08), § 67-25-394, filed 12/15/83. Formerly WAC 67-20-394.]