PERMANENT RULES
Date of Adoption: June 22, 1999.
Purpose: Write a new rule that defines direct supervision and describes how direct supervision should be applied in practice between the licensee and the person doing the work.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 18.43.035.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 99-10-086 on May 4, 1999.
Changes Other than Editing from Proposed to Adopted Version: In the first part of the second paragraph, the words "the employee, co-worker or subordinate (support staff), as defined herein," were deleted and replaced with the words "those persons performing the work."
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0. Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
July 15, 1999
George A. Twiss
Executive Director
OTS-3079.2
NEW SECTION
WAC 196-23-030
Providing direct supervision.
Direct supervision is a combination of activities by which a licensee maintains control over those decisions that are the basis for the finding, conclusions, analysis, rationale, details, and judgments that are embodied in the development and preparation of engineering or land surveying plans, specifications, plats, reports, and related activities. Direct supervision explains the relationship between the licensee and those persons who are performing the work controlled by the licensee. Direct supervision requires providing personal direction, oversight, inspection, observation and supervision of the work being certified.
Communications between the licensee and those persons who are performing the work include, but are not limited to, use of any of the following ways: Direct face-to-face communications; written communications; U.S. mail; electronic mail; facsimiles; telecommunications, or other current technology: Provided, That the licensee retains, maintains, and asserts continuing control and judgment.
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