California

Labor Code

2,656 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 552 — No employer of labor shall cause his employees to work more than six days in seven.
• § 553 — Any person who violates this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• § 554 — (a) Sections 551 and 552 do not apply to cases of emergency or to work performed in the protection of life or property from loss or destruction, or to any common carrier engaged in or connected with t
• § 555 — Sections 550, 551, 552 and 554 of this chapter are applicable to cities which are cities and counties and to the officers and employees thereof.
• § 556 — Sections 551 and 552 shall not apply to any employer or employee when the total hours of employment do not exceed 30 hours in any week or six hours in any one day thereof.
• § 558 — (a) Any employer or other person acting on behalf of an employer who violates, or causes to be violated, a section of this chapter or any provision regulating hours and days of work in any order of th
• § 558.1 — (a) Any employer or other person acting on behalf of an employer, who violates, or causes to be violated, any provision regulating minimum wages or hours and days of work in any order of the Industria
• § 56 — The work of the department shall be divided into at least five divisions known as the Division of Workers’ Compensation, the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, the Division of Labor Standards
• § 5600 — The appeals board may, upon the filing of an application by or on behalf of an injured employee, the employee’s dependents, or any other party in interest, direct the clerk of the superior court of an
• § 5601 — The provisions of Title 6.
• § 5602 — No writ of attachment shall be issued except upon the order of the appeals board.
• § 5603 — In levying attachments preference shall be given to the real property of the employer.
• § 57 — Each division shall be in charge of a chief who shall be appointed by the Governor and shall receive a salary fixed in accordance with law, and shall serve at the pleasure of the director.
• § 57.1 — (a) The Chief of the Division of Occupational Safety and Health shall receive an annual salary as provided by Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 11550) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Govern
• § 57.2 — (a) (1) Upon appropriation by the Legislature and notwithstanding any other law, upon intake of a complaint from an agricultural employee by any department, division, or board within the Labor and Wor
• § 57.5 — All duties, powers, and jurisdiction relating to the administration of the State Compensation Insurance Fund shall be vested in the Board of Directors of the State Compensation Insurance Fund.
• § 5700 — The hearing on the application may be adjourned from time to time and from place to place in the discretion of the appeals board or the workers’ compensation judge holding the hearing.
• § 5701 — The appeals board may, with or without notice to either party, cause testimony to be taken, or inspection of the premises where the injury occurred to be made, or the timebooks and payroll of the empl
• § 5702 — The parties to a controversy may stipulate the facts relative thereto in writing and file such stipulation with the appeals board.
• § 5703 — The appeals board may receive as evidence either at or subsequent to a hearing, and use as proof of any fact in dispute, the following matters, in addition to sworn testimony presented in open hearing
• § 5703.5 — (a) The appeals board, at any time after an application is filed and prior to the expiration of its jurisdiction may, upon the agreement of a party to pay the cost, direct an unrepresented employee to
• § 5704 — Transcripts of all testimony taken without notice and copies of all reports and other matters added to the record, otherwise than during the course of an open hearing, shall be served upon the parties
• § 5705 — The burden of proof rests upon the party or lien claimant holding the affirmative of the issue.
• § 5706 — Where it is represented to the appeals board, either before or after the filing of an application, that an employee has died as a result of injuries sustained in the course of his employment, the appe
• § 5707 — If the body of a deceased employee is not in the custody of the coroner, the appeals board may authorize the performance of such autopsy and, if necessary, the exhumation of the body therefor.
• § 5708 — All hearings and investigations before the appeals board or a workers’ compensation judge are governed by this division and by the rules of practice and procedures adopted by the appeals board.
• § 5709 — No informality in any proceeding or in the manner of taking testimony shall invalidate any order, decision, award, or rule made and filed as specified in this division.
• § 5710 — (a) The appeals board, a workers’ compensation judge, or any party to the action or proceeding, may, in any investigation or hearing before the appeals board, cause the deposition of witnesses residin
• § 58 — The department shall have possession and control of all records, books, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, moneys, funds, appropriations, land, and other property, real or personal, held for the be
• § 5800 — All awards of the appeals board either for the payment of compensation or for the payment of death benefits, shall carry interest at the same rate as judgments in civil actions on all due and unpaid p
• § 5800.5 — The 30-day period specified in Section 5313, shall run from the date of the submission of the application for decision and the provisions requiring the decision within such 30-day period shall be deem
• § 5801 — The appeals board in its award may fix and determine the total amount of compensation to be paid and specify the manner of payment, or may fix and determine the weekly disability payment to be made an
• § 5802 — If, in any proceeding under this division, it is proved that an injury has been suffered for which the employer would be liable to pay compensation if disability had resulted therefrom, but it is not
• § 5803 — The appeals board has continuing jurisdiction over all its orders, decisions, and awards made and entered under the provisions of this division, and the decisions and orders of the rehabilitation unit
• § 5803.5 — Any conviction pursuant to Section 1871.
• § 5804 — No award of compensation shall be rescinded, altered, or amended after five years from the date of the injury except upon a petition by a party in interest filed within such five years and any counter
• § 5805 — Any order, decision, or award rescinding, altering or amending a prior order, decision, or award shall have the effect herein provided for original orders, decisions, and awards.
• § 5806 — Any party affected thereby may file a certified copy of the findings and order, decision, or award of the appeals board with the clerk of the superior court of any county.
• § 5807 — The certified copy of the findings and order, decision, or award of the appeals board and a copy of the judgment constitute the judgment-roll.
• § 5808 — The appeals board or a member thereof may stay the execution of any judgment entered upon an order, decision, or award of the appeals board, upon good cause appearing therefor and may impose the terms
• § 5809 — When a judgment is satisfied in fact, otherwise than upon an execution, the appeals board may, upon motion of either party or of its own motion, order the entry of satisfaction of the judgment.
• § 5810 — The orders, findings, decisions, or awards of the appeals board made and entered under this division may be reviewed by the courts specified in Sections 5950 to 5956 within the time and in the manner
• § 5811 — (a) No fees shall be charged by the clerk of any court for the performance of any official service required by this division, except for the docketing of awards as judgments and for certified copies o
• § 5813 — (a) The workers’ compensation referee or appeals board may order a party, the party’s attorney, or both, to pay any reasonable expenses, including attorney’s fees and costs, incurred by another party
• § 5814 — (a) When payment of compensation has been unreasonably delayed or refused, either prior to or subsequent to the issuance of an award, the amount of the payment unreasonably delayed or refused shall be
• § 5814.1 — When the payment of compensation has been unreasonably delayed or refused prior to the issuance of an award, and the director has provided discretionary compensation pursuant to Section 4903.
• § 5814.3 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 5814, when liability has been unreasonably rejected for claims of injury or illness as defined in Sections 3212 to 3213.
• § 5814.5 — When the payment of compensation has been unreasonably delayed or refused subsequent to the issuance of an award by an employer that has secured the payment of compensation pursuant to Section 3700, t
• § 5814.6 — (a) Any employer or insurer that knowingly violates Section 5814 with a frequency that indicates a general business practice is liable for administrative penalties of not to exceed four hundred thousa
• § 5815 — Every order, decision or award, other than an order merely appointing a trustee or guardian, shall contain a determination of all issues presented for determination by the appeals board prior thereto
• § 5816 — A determination of facts by the appeals board under this chapter has no collateral estoppel effect on a subsequent criminal prosecution and does not preclude litigation of those same facts in the crim
• § 59 — The department through its appropriate officers shall administer and enforce all laws imposing any duty, power, or function upon the offices or officers of the department.
• § 5900 — (a) Any person aggrieved directly or indirectly by any final order, decision, or award made and filed by the appeals board or a workers’ compensation judge under any provision contained in this divisi
• § 5901 — No cause of action arising out of any final order, decision or award made and filed by the appeals board or a workers’ compensation judge shall accrue in any court to any person until and unless the a
• § 5902 — The petition for reconsideration shall set forth specifically and in full detail the grounds upon which the petitioner considers the final order, decision or award made and filed by the appeals board
• § 5903 — At any time within 20 days after the service of any final order, decision, or award made and filed by the appeals board or a workers’ compensation judge granting or denying compensation, or arising ou
• § 5904 — The petitioner for reconsideration shall be deemed to have finally waived all objections, irregularities, and illegalities concerning the matter upon which the reconsideration is sought other than tho
• § 5905 — A copy of the petition for reconsideration shall be served forthwith upon all adverse parties by the person petitioning for reconsideration.
• § 5906 — Upon the filing of a petition for reconsideration, or having granted reconsideration upon its own motion, the appeals board may, with or without further proceedings and with or without notice affirm,
• § 5907 — If, at the time of granting reconsideration, it appears to the satisfaction of the appeals board that no sufficient reason exists for taking further testimony, the appeals board may affirm, rescind, a
• § 5908 — (a) After the taking of additional evidence and a consideration of all of the facts the appeals board may affirm, rescind, alter, or amend the original order, decision, or award.
• § 5908.5 — Any decision of the appeals board granting or denying a petition for reconsideration or affirming, rescinding, altering, or amending the original findings, order, decision, or award following reconsid
• § 5909 — (a) A petition for reconsideration is deemed to have been denied by the appeals board unless it is acted upon within 60 days from the date a trial judge transmits a case to the appeals board.
• § 5910 — The filing of a petition for reconsideration shall suspend for a period of 10 days the order, decision, or award affected, insofar as it applies to the parties to the petition, unless otherwise ordere
• § 5911 — Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to prevent the appeals board, on petition of an aggrieved party or on its own motion, from granting reconsideration of an original order, decision,
• § 5950 — Any person affected by an order, decision, or award of the appeals board may, within the time limit specified in this section, apply to the Supreme Court or to the court of appeal for the appellate di
• § 5951 — The writ of review shall be made returnable at a time and place then or thereafter specified by court order and shall direct the appeals board to certify its record in the case to the court within the
• § 5952 — The review by the court shall not be extended further than to determine, based upon the entire record which shall be certified by the appeals board, whether: (a) The appeals board acted without or in
• § 5953 — The findings and conclusions of the appeals board on questions of fact are conclusive and final and are not subject to review.
• § 5954 — The provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure relating to writs of review shall, so far as applicable, apply to proceedings in the courts under the provisions of this article.
• § 5955 — No court of this state, except the Supreme Court and the courts of appeal to the extent herein specified, has jurisdiction to review, reverse, correct, or annul any order, rule, decision, or award of
• § 5956 — The filing of a petition for, or the pendency of, a writ of review shall not of itself stay or suspend the operation of any order, rule, decision, or award of the appeals board, but the court before w
• § 6 — Division, part, chapter, article, and section headings contained herein shall not be deemed to govern, limit, modify or in any manner affect the scope, meaning, or intent of the provisions of any divi
• § 60 — Except as otherwise provided, the provisions of Divisions 4 and 4.
• § 60.5 — (a) The provisions of Part 1 of Division 5 of this code shall be administered and enforced by the department through the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, subject to the direction of the dir
• § 60.6 — All persons serving in the state civil service in the Division of Industrial Safety or in the Occupational Health Branch of the State Department of Health Services, and engaged in the performance of a
• § 60.7 — The Division of Occupational Safety and Health shall have possession and control of all records, books, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, moneys, funds, appropriations, land, licenses, permits, ag
• § 60.8 — The Division of Occupational Safety and Health may expend money appropriated for the administration of the laws the enforcement of which is committed to the division.
• § 60.9 — There is within the Division of Occupational Safety and Health an occupational health unit and an occupational safety unit, which shall assist in the performance of occupational health functions and o
• § 600 — As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates: (a) “Railroad” means any steam railroad, electric railroad, or railway, operated in whole or in part in this State.
• § 6000 — The operation of any order, decision, or award of the appeals board under the provisions of this division or any judgment entered thereon, shall not at any time be stayed by the court to which petitio
• § 6001 — The undertaking shall provide that: (a) The petitioner and sureties are bound in double the amount named in such order, decision, or award.
• § 6002 — The undertaking shall be filed with the appeals board.
• § 601 — No railroad corporation or any officer, agent or representative of such corporation shall require or knowingly permit any trainman to be on duty for a longer period than 12 consecutive hours.
• § 602 — Whenever any trainman has been continuously on duty for 12 hours he shall be relieved and not required or permitted again to go on duty or perform any work for the railroad corporation until he has ha
• § 603 — No trainman who has been on duty 12 hours in the aggregate in any 24-hour period shall be required or permitted to continue or again go on duty without having had at least 8 consecutive hours off duty
• § 604 — No person who by the use of the telegraph or telephone, dispatches, reports, transmits, receives or delivers orders pertaining to or affecting train movements shall be required or permitted to be on d
• § 605 — Any railroad corporation that violates any of the provisions of this chapter is liable to the state in a penalty of not less than five hundred dollars ($500) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,00
• § 606 — Any officer, agent or representative of any railroad corporation who violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than one hundred dollar
• § 607 — This chapter shall not apply in any case of casualty, unavoidable accident, or act of God; nor where the delay was the result of a cause not known to, and which could not have been foreseen by, the ra
• § 61 — The provisions of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 1171) of Part 4 of Division 2 shall be administered and enforced by the department through the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement.
• § 6100 — The purpose of this division is to effect economy, efficiency, and continuity in the public service by providing means for increasing the willingness of competent persons to assume the risk of injurie
• § 6101 — Unless the context otherwise requires, as used in this division: (a) “State agency” means any agency, department, division, commission, board, bureau, officer, or other authority of the State of Calif
• § 6110 — Any State agency may, by appropriate action, undertake to provide hospitalization, medical treatment and indemnity, including death benefits, to its employees and to their dependents for injury or dea
• § 6111 — The State Compensation Insurance Fund may enter into a master agreement with the State Department of Finance to render services in accordance with the agreement in the adjustment and disposition of cl
• § 6112 — The master agreement shall provide for the rendition of services at a uniform rate to all State agencies.
• § 6113 — The fund may make all expenditures, including payments to claimants for medical care or for adjustment or settlement of claims.
• § 6114 — The agreement shall provide that the State agency whose officer or employee is a claimant shall reimburse the fund for the expenditures and for the actual cost of services rendered.
• § 6115 — The fund may in its own name, or in the name of the State agency for which services are performed, do any and all things necessary to recover on behalf of the State agency any and all amounts which an
• § 6130 — In lieu of direct payments pursuant to Chapter 2 of this division, any State agency may obtain by insurance from the State Compensation Insurance Fund, if the fund accepts the risk when the applicatio
• § 6131 — The premium for such insurance shall be a proper charge against any moneys appropriated for the support of or expenditure by such State agency.
• § 6140 — The hospitalization, medical treatment, and indemnity, including death benefits, provided pursuant to this division shall be the same as provided by Division 4 of this code for employees entitled to t
• § 6141 — Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the provisions of Division 4 of this code, relating to benefits, procedure, and limitations, and all other provisions of that division, so far as they are
• § 6142 — The provisions of Sections 3212, 3212.
• § 6143 — The appeals board is vested with all power not inconsistent with Article VI of the Constitution of the State of California to hear and determine any dispute or matter arising out of an obligation unde
• § 6144 — The appeals board may try and determine controversies under this division referred to it by the parties under the provisions of Title 9 (commencing with Section 1280) of Part 3 of the Code of Civil Pr
• § 6145 — The state, acting by or through any state agency, or when the consent of the opposing party is obtained, shall submit to the appeals board all controversies under this division susceptible of being ar
• § 6146 — In acting as arbitrator, the appeals board has all the powers which it has in compensation cases, and its findings and award upon an arbitration have the same conclusiveness and are subject to the sam
• § 6147 — No state agency, either directly or through its adjusting agency, the State Compensation Insurance Fund, shall pay or provide any benefit authorized by this division unless and until the claimant make
• § 6148 — The insurer, when insurance exists, shall not pay or provide any benefit authorized by this division unless and until the claimant makes and delivers to the insurer an agreement in writing that if he,
• § 6149 — Nothing shall preclude an employee from negotiating the agreement mentioned in Sections 6147 and 6148 prior to the occurrence of injury.
• § 62 — The department may expend money appropriated for the administration of the provisions of the laws, the enforcement of which is committed to the department.
• § 62.5 — (a) (1) The Workers’ Compensation Administration Revolving Fund is hereby created as a special account in the State Treasury.
• § 62.8 — Five million dollars ($5,000,000) is hereby appropriated for transfer by the State Controller upon order of the Director of Finance from the Cal-OSHA Targeted Inspection and Consultation Fund as a loa
• § 6200 — Every public agency, its insurance carrier, and the State Department of Rehabilitation shall jointly formulate procedures for the selection and orderly referral of injured full-time public employees w
• § 6201 — The employer or insurance carrier shall notify the injured employee of the availability of rehabilitation services in those cases where there is continuing disability of 28 days and beyond.
• § 6202 — The initiation of a rehabilitation plan shall be the joint responsibility of the injured employee, and the employer or the insurance carrier.
• § 6203 — If a rehabilitation plan requires an injured employee to attend an educational or medical facility away from his home, the injured employee shall be paid a reasonable and necessary subsistence allowan
• § 6204 — An injured employee agreeing to a rehabilitation plan shall cooperate in carrying it out.
• § 6205 — The injured employee may agree with his employer or insurance carrier upon a rehabilitation plan without submission of such plan for approval to the State Department of Rehabilitation.
• § 6206 — The injured employee shall receive such medical and vocational rehabilitative services as may be reasonably necessary to restore him to suitable employment.
• § 6207 — The injured employee’s rehabilitation benefit is an additional benefit and shall not be converted to or replace any workmen’s compensation benefit available to him.
• § 6208 — The initiation and acceptance of a rehabilitation program shall be voluntary and not compulsory upon the employer, the insurance carrier, or the injured employee.
• § 63 — The Director may authorize the refund of moneys received or collected by the department in payment of license fees or for other services in cases where the license can not lawfully be issued or the se
• § 6300 — The California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973 is hereby enacted for the purpose of assuring safe and healthful working conditions for all California working men and women by authorizing th
• § 6301 — The definitions set forth in this chapter shall govern the construction and interpretation of this part.
• § 6302 — As used in this division: (a) “Director” means the Director of Industrial Relations.
• § 6303 — (a) “Place of employment” means any place, and the premises appurtenant thereto, where employment is carried on, except a place where the health and safety jurisdiction is vested by law in, and active
• § 6303.5 — Nothing in this division shall be construed to limit the jurisdiction of the state over any employmment or place of employment by reason of the exercise of occupational safety and health jurisdiction
• § 6304 — “Employer” shall have the same meaning as in Section 3300.
• § 6304.1 — (a) “Employee” means every person who is required or directed by any employer to engage in any employment or to go to work or be at any time in any place of employment.
• § 6304.2 — Notwithstanding Section 6413, and except as provided in Sections 6304.
• § 6304.3 — (a) A Correctional Industry Safety Committee shall be established in accordance with Department of Corrections administrative procedures at each facility maintaining a correctional industry, as define
• § 6304.4 — A prisoner engaged in correctional industry, as defined by the Department of Corrections, shall not be considered an employee for purposes of the provisions relating to appeal proceedings set forth in
• § 6304.5 — It is the intent of the Legislature that the provisions of this division, and the occupational safety and health standards and orders promulgated under this code, are applicable to proceedings against
• § 6305 — (a) “Occupational safety and health standards and orders” means standards and orders adopted by the standards board pursuant to Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 140) of Division 1 and general orders
• § 6305.1 — (a) (1) The Chief of the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, or a representative of the chief, shall convene an advisory committee for the purposes of creating voluntary guidance and making re
• § 6306 — (a) “Safe,” “safety,” and “health” as applied to an employment or a place of employment mean such freedom from danger to the life, safety, or health of employees as the nature of the employment reason
• § 6307 — The division has the power, jurisdiction, and supervision over every employment and place of employment in this state, which is necessary adequately to enforce and administer all laws and lawful stand
• § 6307.1 — The State Department of Health Services shall assist the division in the enforcement of Section 25910 of the Health and Safety Code in the manner prescribed by a written agreement between the State De
• § 6308 — The division, in enforcing occupational safety and health standards and orders and special orders may do any of the following: (a) Declare and prescribe what safety devices, safeguards, or other means
• § 6308.5 — Hearings conducted by the division pursuant to this part shall give any affected employer or other affected person the opportunity to submit facts or arguments, but may be conducted informally, either
• § 6309 — (a) If the division learns or has reason to believe that an employment or place of employment is not safe or is injurious to the welfare of an employee, it may, on its own motion, or upon complaint, s
• § 6310 — (a) No person shall discharge or in any manner discriminate against any employee because the employee has done any of the following: (1) Made any oral or written complaint to the division, other gover
• § 6311 — No employee shall be laid off or discharged for refusing to perform work in the performance of which this code, including Section 6400, any occupational safety or health standard, or any safety order
• § 6311.5 — (a) (1) Except as noted in paragraph (2), a person who, after receiving notice to evacuate or leave, willfully and knowingly directs an employee to remain in, or enter, an area closed due to a menace
• § 6312 — Any employee who believes that he or she has been discharged or otherwise discriminated against by any person in violation of Section 6310 or 6311 may file a complaint with the Labor Commissioner purs
• § 6313 — (a) The division shall investigate the causes of any employment accident that is fatal to one or more employees or that results in a serious injury or illness, or a serious exposure, unless it determi
• § 6313.5 — The division, after consultation with the Contractors’ State License Board, shall transmit to the Contractors’ State License Board copies of any citations or other actions taken by the division agains
• § 6314 — (a) To make an investigation or inspection, the chief of the division and all qualified divisional inspectors and investigators authorized by him or her shall, upon presenting appropriate credentials
• § 6314.1 — (a) The division shall establish a program for targeting employers in high hazardous industries with the highest incidence of preventable occupational injuries and illnesses and workers’ compensation
• § 6314.5 — (a) Every inspection conducted by the division shall include an evaluation of the employer’s injury prevention program established pursuant to Section 6401.
• § 6315 — (a) There is within the division a Bureau of Investigations.
• § 6315.3 — The bureau shall, not later than February 15, annually submit to the division for submission to the director a report on the activities of the bureau, including, but not limited to, the following: (a)
• § 6315.5 — All occupational safety and health standards and orders, rules, regulations, findings, and decisions of the division made and entered pursuant to this part are admissible as evidence in any prosecutio
• § 6316 — Except as limited by Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 140) of Division 1, nothing in this part shall deprive the governing body of any county, city, or public corporation, board, or department, of a
• § 6317 — (a) If, upon inspection or investigation, the division believes that an employer has violated Section 25910 of the Health and Safety Code, any standard, rule, order, or regulation established pursuant
• § 6317.5 — (a) If, upon inspection or investigation, the division finds that an employer has falsified any materials posted in the workplace or distributed to employees related to the California Occupational Saf
• § 6317.7 — If, upon inspection or investigation, the division finds no violations pursuant to this chapter, the division with reasonable promptness shall issue a written notice to the employer specifying the are
• § 6317.8 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, if, upon inspection or investigation, the division believes that an employer has willfully and egregiously violated an occupational safety or health standard, order,
• § 6317.9 — In the investigation of the policies and practices of an employer or a related employer entity, the division may issue a subpoena if the employer or the related employer entity fails to promptly provi
• § 6318 — (a) Each citation issued under Section 6317, and each special order or action ordered pursuant to Section 6308, or a copy or copies thereof, shall be prominently posted, as prescribed in regulations i
• § 6319 — (a) If, after an inspection or investigation, the division issues a citation pursuant to Section 6317 or an order pursuant to Section 6308, it shall, within a reasonable time after the termination of
• § 6319.3 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b) of this section and subdivision (j) of Section 6401.
• § 6319.5 — Upon a showing by an employer of a good-faith effort to comply with the abatement requirement of a citation, and that abatement has not been completed because of factors beyond his reasonable control,
• § 6320 — (a) If, after inspection or investigation, the division issues a special order, order to take special action, or a citation for a serious violation, and if at the time of inspection the order is not c
• § 6321 — No person or employer shall be given advance warning of an inspection or investigation by any authorized representative of the division unless authorized under provisions of this part.
• § 6322 — All information reported to or otherwise obtained by the chief or representatives of the chief in connection with any inspection or proceeding of the division that contains or that might reveal a trad
• § 6323 — If the division has grounds to issue a citation pursuant to Section 6317, or if the condition of any employment or place of employment or the operation of any machine, device, apparatus, or equipment
• § 6324 — The application to the superior court accompanied by affidavit showing that the division has grounds to issue a citation pursuant to Section 6317 or a place of employment, machine, device, apparatus,
• § 6325 — (a) When, in the opinion of the division, a place of employment, machine, device, apparatus, or equipment or any part thereof is in a dangerous condition, is not properly guarded or is dangerously pla
• § 6325.5 — If the division has reasonable cause to believe that any workplace contains friable asbestos, and if there appears to be inadequate protection for employees at that workplace to the hazards from airbo
• § 6326 — Every person who, after such notice is attached as provided in Section 6325, enters any such place of employment, or uses or operates any such place of employment, machine, device, apparatus, or equip
• § 6327 — Once an authorized representative of the division has prohibited entry in or use of a place of employment, machine, device, apparatus, or equipment, as specified in Section 6325, the employer may cont
• § 6327.5 — If the division arbitrarily or capriciously fails to take action to prevent or prohibit any conditions or practices in any employment or place of employment which are such that danger exists which cou
• § 6328 — The division shall prepare a notice containing pertinent information regarding safety rules and regulations.
• § 6329 — All money collected for violation of standards, orders, or special orders of, or for fees paid pursuant to this division shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the General Fund.
• § 6330 — The director shall prepare and submit to the Legislature, not later than March 1, an annual report on the division activities.
• § 6331 — The division shall enter into a contract for the development and execution of tests to define safety standards for the use of positive pressure, closed circuit, breathing apparatus in interior structu
• § 6332 — (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Community health care worker” means an individual who provides health care or health care-related services to cl
• § 6350 — The division shall maintain an education and research program for the purpose of providing in-service training of division personnel, safety education for employees and employers, research and consult
• § 6351 — The division shall be responsible for preparation and distribution of information concerning occupational safety and health programs, methods, techniques or devices.
• § 6352 — The division shall provide safety training programs, upon request, for employees and employers.
• § 6353 — The division shall conduct continuing research into methods, means, operations, techniques, processes and practices necessary for improvement of occupational safety and health of employees.
• § 6354 — The division shall, upon request, provide a full range of occupational safety and health consulting services to any employer or employee group.
• § 6354.5 — (a) Any insurer desiring to write workers’ compensation insurance shall maintain or provide occupational safety and health loss control consultation services.
• § 6354.7 — (a) The Workers’ Occupational Safety and Health Education Fund is hereby created as a special account in the State Treasury.
• § 6355 — If the employer requests or accepts consulting services offered pursuant to Section 6354, the division in providing such services at the employer’s employment or place of employment shall neither inst
• § 6356 — (a) There is hereby created, in the General Fund, the Worker Safety Bilingual Investigative Support, Enforcement, and Training Account.
• § 6357 — On or before January 1, 1995, the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board shall adopt standards for ergonomics in the workplace designed to minimize the instances of injury from repetitive moti
• § 6359 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1) Every year 70 adolescents die from work injuries in the United States and 200,000 are injured, 70,000 seriously enough to require hospital tre
• § 6359.1 — For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) “Artificial stone” means any reconstituted, artificial, synthetic, composite, engineered, or manufactured stone product.
• § 6359.1.5 — (a) A person or entity engaged in high-exposure trigger tasks shall not use dry methods when engaging in any high-exposure trigger tasks.
• § 6359.2 — (a) The owner or operator of a fabrication shop, or any individual who will employ another individual to perform high-exposure trigger tasks in a fabrication shop, shall do both of the following: (1)
• § 6359.3 — This part, or any related health and safety standard, does not prevent or limit an employer, contractor, or fabrication shop from adopting stricter safety standards.
• § 6359.4 — (a) The State Department of Public Health shall consider a report of silicosis related to occupational exposure to artificial stone as a serious illness and shall report that case to the division with
• § 6359.5 — The State Department of Public Health shall conduct all of the following activities to address silicosis risk exposure in fabrication shops: (a) Identify businesses that conduct high-exposure trigger
• § 6360 — This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Hazardous Substances Information and Training Act.
• § 6361 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1) Hazardous substances in the workplace in some forms and concentrations pose potential acute and chronic health hazards to employees who are ex