California

Labor Code

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

• § 6362 — The rights and duties set forth in this chapter apply to all employers who use hazardous substances in this state, to any person who sells a hazardous substance to any employer in this state, and to m
• § 6363 — Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require a manufacturer or employer to conduct studies to develop new information.
• § 6365 — Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article and the provisions of Article 1 shall govern the construction of provisions of this chapter.
• § 6366 — “CAS number” means the unique identification number assigned by the Chemical Abstracts Service to specific chemical substances.
• § 6367 — “Chemical name” is the scientific designation of a substance in accordance with the nomenclature system developed by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry or the system developed by th
• § 6368 — “Common name” means any designation or identification such as code name, code number, trade name, or brand name used to identify a substance other than by its chemical name.
• § 6370 — “Expose” or “exposure” means any situation arising from work operation where an employee may ingest, inhale, absorb through the skin or eyes, or otherwise come into contact with a hazardous substance;
• § 6371 — “Impurity” means a hazardous substance which is unintentionally present with another substance or mixture.
• § 6372 — “Manufacturer” means a person who produces, synthesizes, extracts, or otherwise makes a hazardous substance.
• § 6373 — “Mixture” means any solution or intimate admixture of two or more substances, at least one of which is present as a hazardous substance, as designated pursuant to Sections 6382 and 6383, which do not
• § 6374 — “MSDS” means a material safety data sheet prepared pursuant to Section 6390.
• § 6380 — For the purposes of this chapter, the director, pursuant to Section 6382, shall establish a list of hazardous substances and shall make the list available to manufacturers, employers, and the public.
• § 6380.5 — (a) Prior to the director’s adoption of the list of hazardous substances, the director shall submit the list to the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board for its approval.
• § 6381 — Substances not present on the list of hazardous substances adopted pursuant to Section 6380 shall not be subject to the provisions of this chapter.
• § 6382 — The director shall prepare and amend the list of hazardous substances according to the following procedure: (a) Any substance designated in any of the following listings in subdivision (b) shall be pr
• § 6383 — (a) For the purposes of this chapter, a hazardous substance is present in any mixture or product if it is present in any of the following concentrations: (1) One percent or more of the mixture or prod
• § 6384 — This chapter does not apply to impurities which develop as intermediate materials during chemical processing but are not present in the final product, and to which employee exposure is unlikely.
• § 6385 — The provisions of this chapter do not apply to hazardous substances contained in either of the following: (a) Products intended for personal consumption by employees in the workplace, or consumer prod
• § 6386 — (a) A laboratory in which a hazardous substance is used by or under the direct supervision of a technically qualified individual is not an employer or manufacturer for the purposes of this chapter.
• § 6390 — The manufacturer of any hazardous substance listed pursuant to the provisions of Section 6380 shall prepare and provide its direct purchasers of the hazardous substance with an MSDS containing the inf
• § 6390.2 — (a) An entity that manufactures or imports a hazardous substance or mixture of substances that constitutes a cosmetic, as defined in Section 109900 of the Health and Safety Code, not excluded by Secti
• § 6390.5 — The manufacturer, importer, and distributor of any hazardous substance, and the employer, shall label each container of a hazardous substance in a manner consistent with the federal Hazard Communicati
• § 6391 — The information which manufacturers shall provide to their purchasers pursuant to the provisions of Section 6390 shall include the following, if pertinent: (a) The chemical name, any common names, and
• § 6392 — Provision of a federal Material Safety Data Sheet or equivalent shall constitute prima facie proof of compliance with Section 6390.
• § 6393 — The manufacturer shall be relieved of the obligation to provide a specific purchaser of a hazardous substance with an MSDS pursuant to Section 6390 if the manufacturer has a record of having provided
• § 6394 — The preparer of an MSDS shall provide the department with a copy of the MSDS on each hazardous substance it manufactures.
• § 6395 — (a) The manufacturer may provide the information required by Section 6390 on an entire product mixture, instead of on each hazardous substance in it, when all of the following conditions exist: (1) Ha
• § 6396 — (a) The Director of Industrial Relations shall protect from disclosure any and all trade secrets coming into the director’s possession, as defined in subdivision (f) of Section 7924.
• § 6397 — (a) Any person other than a manufacturer who sells a mixture or any hazardous substance shall provide its direct purchasers of the mixture or hazardous substance at the time of sale with a copy of the
• § 6398 — The Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board shall adopt a standard setting forth an employer’s duties toward its employees under this chapter, on or before July 1, 1981, consistent with the fol
• § 6398.5 — An employer that is required to maintain safety data sheets and ensure that those safety data sheets are readily accessible in accordance with this chapter and Section 5194 of Title 8 of the Californi
• § 6399 — Upon request, the manufacturer of a hazardous substance or the producer of a mixture who has produced a mixture MSDS pursuant to the provisions of subdivision (b) of Section 6397 shall make available
• § 6399.1 — Compliance with regulations of the Director of Food and Agriculture issued pursuant to Section 12981 of the Food and Agricultural Code shall be deemed compliance with the obligations of an employer to
• § 6399.2 — This article shall become operative 180 days after adoption of the initial list of hazardous substances pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 6380).
• § 6399.5 — The provisions of this chapter regarding manufacturers, employers, and persons subject to the provisions of Section 6397, shall be enforced pursuant to the provisions of this division pertaining to en
• § 6399.6 — The provision of information to an employee pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall not in any way affect any other liability of an employer with regard to safeguarding the health and safety
• § 6399.7 — No person shall discharge or in any manner discriminate against, any employee because such employee has filed any complaint or has instituted, or caused to be instituted, any proceeding under or relat
• § 64 — The Labor Commissioner may enter into reciprocal agreements with the labor department or corresponding agency of any other state or with the person, board, officer, or commission authorized to act for
• § 64.5 — When requested by the State Board of Equalization, the department may permit any duly authorized representative of that agency to transmit to the State Board of Equalization information available in t
• § 6400 — (a) Every employer shall furnish employment and a place of employment that is safe and healthful for the employees therein.
• § 6401 — Every employer shall furnish and use safety devices and safeguards, and shall adopt and use practices, means, methods, operations, and processes which are reasonably adequate to render such employment
• § 6401.5 — No salvage of materials shall be permitted while demolition is in progress on any building, structure, falsework, or scaffold more than three stories high or the equivalent height for which a permit i
• § 6401.7 — (a) Every employer shall establish, implement, and maintain an effective injury prevention program.
• § 6401.8 — (a) The standards board, no later than July 1, 2016, shall adopt standards developed by the division that require a hospital licensed pursuant to subdivision (a), (b), or (f) of Section 1250 of the He
• § 6401.9 — (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Emergency” means unanticipated circumstances that can be life threatening or pose a risk of significant injuries to employees or
• § 6402 — No employer shall require, or permit any employee to go or be in any employment or place of employment which is not safe and healthful.
• § 6403 — No employer shall fail or neglect to do any of the following: (a) To provide and use safety devices and safeguards reasonably adequate to render the employment and place of employment safe.
• § 6403.1 — (a) The Legislature hereby finds that having access to a health care employer-level inventory of personal protective equipment in the event of a pandemic or other health emergency is vital to the heal
• § 6403.3 — (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Employer” means a person or organization that employs workers in the public or private sector to provide direct patient care in a general acute care hospital, as
• § 6403.5 — (a) As part of the injury and illness prevention programs required by Section 3203 of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations, or any successor law or regulation, employers shall adopt a patient
• § 6404 — No employer shall occupy or maintain any place of employment that is not safe and healthful.
• § 6404.5 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares that regulation of smoking in the workplace is a matter of statewide interest and concern.
• § 6405 — No employer, owner, or lessee of any real property shall construct or cause to be constructed any place of employment that is not safe and healthful.
• § 6406 — No person shall do any of the following: (a) Remove, displace, damage, destroy or carry off any safety device, safeguard, notice, or warning, furnished for use in any employment or place of employment
• § 6407 — Every employer and every employee shall comply with occupational safety and health standards, with Section 25910 of the Health and Safety Code, and with all rules, regulations, and orders pursuant to
• § 6408 — All employers shall provide information to employees in the following ways, as prescribed by authorized regulations: (a) Posting of information regarding protections and obligations of employees under
• § 6409 — (a) Every physician as defined in Section 3209.
• § 6409.1 — (a) Every employer shall file a complete report of every occupational injury or occupational illness, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 6409, of each employee which results in lost time beyond
• § 6409.2 — Whenever a state, county, or local fire or police agency is called to an accident involving an employee covered by this part in which a serious injury or illness, or death occurs, the responding agenc
• § 6409.3 — In no case shall the treatment administered for pesticide poisoning or a condition suspected as pesticide poisoning be deemed to be first aid treatment.
• § 6409.5 — (a) Whenever any local public fire agency has knowledge that a place of employment where garment manufacturing operations take place contains fire or safety hazards for which fire and injury preventio
• § 6410 — (a) The reports required by subdivision (a) of Section 6409 and Section 6413 shall be made in the form and detail and within the time limits prescribed by reasonable rules and regulations adopted by t
• § 6410.1 — It is the intent of the Legislature that the division maintain strong workplace injury and illness reporting standards.
• § 6410.2 — (a) The division shall monitor rulemaking and implementation of the United States Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illne
• § 6410.5 — The reports required by subdivision (a) of Section 6409, subdivision (a) of Section 6409.
• § 6411 — Every employer or insurer receiving forms with directions from the Department of Industrial Relations to complete them shall cause them to be properly filled out so as to answer fully and correctly ea
• § 6412 — No report of injury or illness required by subdivision (a) of Section 6409.
• § 6413 — (a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and every physician or surgeon who attends any injured state prisoner, shall file with the Division of Occupational Safety and Health a complete r
• § 6413.2 — (a) With regard to any report required by Section 6413, the Division of Occupational Safety and Health may make recommendations to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation of ways in which the
• § 6413.5 — Any employer or physician who fails to comply with any provision of subdivision (a) of Section 6409, or Section 6409.
• § 6423 — (a) Except where another penalty is specifically provided, every employer and every officer, management official, or supervisor having direction, management, control, or custody of any employment, pla
• § 6425 — (a) Any employer and any employee having direction, management, control, or custody of any employment, place of employment, or of any other employee, who willfully violates any occupational safety or
• § 6426 — Whoever knowingly makes any false statement, representation, or certification in any application, record, report, plan, or other document filed or required to be maintained pursuant to this division s
• § 6427 — (a) Any employer who violates any occupational safety or health standard, order, or special order, or Section 25910 of the Health and Safety Code, and the violation is specifically determined not to b
• § 6428 — Any employer who violates any occupational safety or health standard, order, or special order, or Section 25910 of the Health and Safety Code, if that violation is a serious violation, shall be assess
• § 6428.5 — An employer’s injury prevention program shall be deemed to be operative for the purposes of Sections 6427 and 6428 if it meets the criteria for substantial compliance established by the standards boar
• § 6429 — (a) (1) Any employer who willfully or repeatedly violates any occupational safety or health standard, order, or special order, or Section 25910 of the Health and Safety Code, or any employer who commi
• § 6430 — (a) Any employer who fails to correct a violation of any occupational safety or health standard, order, or special order, or Section 25910 of the Health and Safety Code, within the period permitted fo
• § 6431 — (a) Any employer who violates any of the posting or recordkeeping requirements as prescribed by regulations adopted pursuant to Sections 6408 and 6410, or who fails to post any notice required by Sect
• § 6432 — (a) There shall be a rebuttable presumption that a “serious violation” exists in a place of employment if the division demonstrates that there is a realistic possibility that death or serious physical
• § 6433 — The civil penalties set forth in Sections 6427 to 6431, inclusive, shall not be considered as other penalties specifically provided within the meaning of Section 6423.
• § 6434 — (a) Any civil or administrative penalty assessed pursuant to this chapter against a school district, county board of education, county superintendent of schools, charter school, community college dist
• § 6434.5 — (a) Any civil or administrative penalty assessed pursuant to this chapter against a public police or city, county, or special district fire department or the California Department of Forestry and Fire
• § 6435 — (a) Any employer who violates any of the requirements of Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 6500) of this part shall be assessed a civil penalty under the appropriate provisions of Sections 6427 to 64
• § 6436 — The criminal complaint regarding a violation of Section 6505.
• § 6450 — (a) Any employer may apply to the division for a temporary order granting a variance from an occupational safety or health standard.
• § 6451 — An application for a temporary order under Section 6450 shall contain all of the following: (a) A specification of the standard or portion thereof from which the employer seeks a variance.
• § 6452 — The division is authorized to grant a temporary variance from any standard or portion thereof whenever it determines such variance is necessary to permit an employer to participate in an experiment ap
• § 6454 — The division may, in accordance with Chapter 3.
• § 6455 — Any employer or other person adversely affected by the granting or denial of a temporary variance may appeal to the standards board within 15 working days from receipt of the notice granting or denyin
• § 6456 — A decision of the standards board on a variance appeal is binding on the director and the division with respect to the parties involved in the particular appeal.
• § 6457 — The standards board shall conduct hearings and render decisions on appeals of decisions of the division relating to allowance or denial of temporary variances.
• § 6500 — (a) For those employments or places of employment that by their nature involve a substantial risk of injury, the division shall require the issuance of a permit prior to the initiation of any practice
• § 6501 — Any employer subject to Section 6500 shall apply to the division for a permit pursuant to Section 6500.
• § 6501.5 — Effective January 1, 1987, any employer or contractor who engages in asbestos-related work, as defined in Section 6501.
• § 6501.7 — “Asbestos” means fibrous forms of various hydrated minerals, including chrysotile (fibrous serpentine), crocidolite (fibrous riebecktite), amosite (fibrous cummingtonite—grunerite), fibrous tremolite,
• § 6501.8 — (a) For purposes of this chapter, “asbestos-related work” means any activity which by disturbing asbestos-containing construction materials may release asbestos fibers into the air and which is not re
• § 6501.9 — The owner of a commercial or industrial building or structure, employer, or contractor who engages in, or contracts for, asbestos-related work shall make a good faith effort to determine if asbestos i
• § 6502 — The division may issue a permit based on a determination the employer has demonstrated evidence that the conditions, practices, means, methods, operations or processes used or proposed to be used will
• § 6503 — A safety conference shall include representatives of the owner or contracting agency, the contractor, the employer, employees and employee representatives.
• § 6503.5 — A safety conference shall be held for all asbestos handling jobs prior to the start of actual work.
• § 6504 — Any employer issued a permit pursuant to this chapter shall post a copy or copies of the permit pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 6408.
• § 6505 — The division may at any time, upon good cause being shown therefor, and after notice and an opportunity to be heard revoke any permit issued pursuant to this chapter.
• § 6505.5 — (a) The division may, upon good cause shown, and after notice to the employer or contractor by the division and an opportunity to be heard, revoke or suspend any registration issued to the employer or
• § 6506 — (a) Any employer denied a permit upon application, or whose permit is revoked, may appeal such denial or revocation to the director.
• § 6507 — The division shall set fees to be charged for permits and registrations in amounts reasonably necessary to cover the costs involved in administering the permitting and registration programs in this ch
• § 6508 — No permit shall be required of the State of California, a city, city and county, county, district, or public utility subject to the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission.
• § 6508.5 — No entity shall be exempt from registration.
• § 6509 — Any person, or agent or officer thereof, who violates this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• § 6509.5 — (a) If an asbestos consultant has made an inspection for the purpose of determining the presence of asbestos or the need for related remedial action with knowledge that the report has been required by
• § 6510 — (a) If, after inspection or investigation, the division finds that an employer, without a valid permit, is engaging in activity for which a permit is required, it may, through its attorneys, apply to
• § 66 — The services of the department pursuant to Section 65 shall be conducted by a unit within the department to be known as the California State Mediation and Conciliation Service.
• § 6600 — Any employer served with a citation or notice pursuant to Section 6317, or a notice of proposed penalty under this part, or any other person obligated to the employer as specified in subdivision (b) o
• § 6600.5 — Any employer served with a special order or any action order by the division pursuant to Section 6308, or any other person obligated to the employer as specified in subdivision (b) of Section 6319, ma
• § 6601 — If within 15 working days from receipt of the citation or notice of civil penalty issued by the division, the employer fails to notify the appeals board that he intends to contest the citation or noti
• § 6601.5 — If, within 15 working days from receipt of a special order, or action order by the division, the employer fails to notify the appeals board that he or she intends to contest the order, and no notice c
• § 6602 — If an employer notifies the appeals board that they intend to contest a citation issued under Section 6317, or notice of proposed penalty issued under Section 6319, or order issued under Section 6308,
• § 6603 — (a) The rules of practice and procedure adopted by the appeals board shall be consistent with Article 8 (commencing with Section 11435.
• § 6604 — The appeals board may, in accordance with rules of practice and procedure which it shall adopt, direct and order a hearing officer: (a) To try the issues in any proceeding before it, whether of fact o
• § 6605 — The appeals board may appoint one or more hearing officers in any proceeding, as it may deem necessary or advisable, and may defer, remove to itself, or transfer to a hearing officer the proceedings o
• § 6606 — Any party to the proceeding may object to the reference of the proceeding to a particular hearing officer upon any one or more of the grounds specified in Section 641 of the Code of Civil Procedure an
• § 6607 — Before entering upon his duties, the hearing officer shall be sworn, before an officer authorized to administer oaths, faithfully and fairly to hear and determine the matters and issues referred to hi
• § 6608 — The appeals board or a hearing officer shall, within 30 days after the case is submitted, make and file findings upon all facts involved in the appeal and file an order or decision.
• § 6609 — Within 30 days after the filing of the findings, decision, or order, the appeals board may confirm, adopt, modify or set aside the findings, order, or decision of a hearing officer and may, with or wi
• § 6610 — Any notice, order, or decision required by this part to be served upon any person either before, during, or after the institution of any proceeding before the appeals board, shall be served in the man
• § 6611 — (a) If the employer fails to appear, the appeals board may dismiss the appeal or may take action upon the employer’s express admissions or upon other evidence, and affidavits may be used without any n
• § 6612 — No informality in any proceeding or in the manner of taking testimony shall invalidate any order, decision, or finding made and filed as specified in this division.
• § 6613 — The appeals board, a hearing officer, or any party to the action or proceeding, may, in any investigation or hearing before the appeals board, cause the deposition of witnesses residing within or with
• § 6614 — (a) At any time within 30 days after the service of any final order or decision made and filed by the appeals board or a hearing officer, any party aggrieved directly or indirectly by any final order
• § 6615 — No cause of action arising out of any final order or decision made and filed by the appeals board or a hearing officer shall accrue in any court to any person until and unless the appeals board on its
• § 6616 — The petition for reconsideration shall set forth specifically and in full detail the grounds upon which the petitioner considers the final order or decision made and filed by the appeals board or a he
• § 6617 — The petition for reconsideration may be based upon one or more of the following grounds and no other: (a) That by such order or decision made and filed by the appeals board or hearing officer, the app
• § 6618 — 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
• § 6619 — A copy of the petition for reconsideration shall be served forthwith upon all parties by the person petitioning for reconsideration.
• § 6620 — 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,
• § 6621 — 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, al
• § 6622 — 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 or decision.
• § 6623 — Any decision of the appeals board granting or denying a petition for reconsideration or affirming, rescinding, altering, or amending the original findings, order, or decision following reconsideration
• § 6624 — A petition for reconsideration is deemed to have been denied by the appeals board unless it is acted upon within 45 days from the date of filing.
• § 6625 — (a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the filing of a petition for reconsideration suspends for a period of 10 days the order or decision affected, insofar as it applies to the parties to the
• § 6626 — Nothing contained in this chapter 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 or decisio
• § 6627 — Any person affected by an order or decision of the appeals board may, within the time limit specified in this section, apply to the superior court of the county in which he resides, for a writ of mand
• § 6628 — The writ of mandate 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 th
• § 6629 — 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
• § 6630 — The findings and conclusions of the appeals board on questions of fact are conclusive and final and are not subject to review.
• § 6631 — The provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure relating to writs of mandate shall, so far as applicable, apply to proceedings in the courts under the provisions of this part.
• § 6632 — No court of this state, except the Supreme Court, the courts of appeal, and the superior court to the extent herein specified, has jurisdiction to review, reverse, correct, or annul any order or rule,
• § 6633 — The filing of a petition for, or the pendency of, a writ of mandate shall not of itself stay or suspend the operation of any order, rule or decision of the appeals board, but the court before which th
• § 6650 — (a) After the expiration of the period during which a penalty may be appealed, no appeal having been filed, the department may file with the clerk of the superior court in any county a certified copy
• § 6651 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 340 of the Code of Civil Procedure, an action to collect any civil penalty, fee, or penalty fee under this division shall be commenced within three years from the date the
• § 6652 — The division shall provide the Contractors’ State License Board with a certified copy of every notice of civil penalty deemed to be a final order pursuant to Section 6601 or after the exhaustion of al
• § 67 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the director may seek and collect reimbursement from private and public sector employers, labor unions, and employee organizations for election, arbitration, and tra
• § 6700 — (a) Any employer who causes or allows the use of any flammable or combustible material for the installation acceptance pressure test of any gas houseline or piping shall be conclusively presumed to be
• § 6701 — It shall be the duty of the standards board to determine by the maximum allowable standards of emissions of contaminants from portable and from mobile internal combustion engines used inside factories
• § 6702 — All portable and all mobile internal combustion engines that are used inside factories, manufacturing plants, warehouses, buildings and other enclosed structures shall be equipped with a certified exh
• § 6703 — Sections 6701 and 6702 shall apply to all portable and all mobile internal combustion engines used inside factories, manufacturing plants, warehouses, buildings and other enclosed structures unless th
• § 6704 — All crawler and wheel cranes with cable-controlled booms and with rated lifting capacity of more than 10 tons sold or operated in this state shall be equipped with boomstops that meet standards that s
• § 6705 — No contract for public works involving an estimated expenditure in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), for the excavation of any trench or trenches five feet or more in depth, shall be a
• § 6705.5 — Regulations of the department requiring the shoring, bracing, or sloping of excavations, or which contain similar requirements for excavations, shall only apply to the excavation of swimming pools whe
• § 6706 — For the purposes of subdivision (a) of Section 6500, only one permit shall be required for a project involving several trenches or excavations.
• § 6707 — Whenever the state, a county, city and county, or city issues a call for bids for the construction of a pipeline, sewer, sewage disposal system, boring and jacking pits, or similar trenches or open ex
• § 6708 — Every contractor on a construction project, including but not limited to any public works, shall maintain adequate emergency first aid treatment for his employees.
• § 6709 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares that Valley Fever is caused by a microscopic fungus known as Coccidioides immitis, which lives in the top 2 to 12 inches of soil in many parts of the state.
• § 6710 — (a) At every place of employment where explosives are used in the course of employment, there shall be a person licensed pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 7990) of Part
• § 6711 — (a) The division shall develop and administer an oral and written examination for persons using explosives, as defined in Section 6710, while engaged in snow avalanche blasting.
• § 6712 — (a) The standards board shall, no later than December 1, 1991, adopt an occupational safety and health standard for field sanitation.
• § 6716 — For the purposes of this division, “lead-related construction work” means any of the following: (a) Any construction, alteration, painting, demolition, salvage, renovation, repair, or maintenance of a
• § 6717 — (a) On or before February 1, 1994, the division shall propose to the standards board for its review and adoption, a standard that protects the health and safety of employees who engage in lead-related
• § 6717.2 — Notwithstanding any other provision in law or regulation, the work performed under any construction contract, including subcontracts thereof, on the Golden Gate Bridge for the Suspension Bridge Seismi
• § 6717.5 — The division shall submit to the board a rulemaking proposal to revise the lead standards of the general industry safety orders, found at Section 5198 of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations,
• § 6718 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any test procedures adopted by a state agency to determine compliance with vapor emission standards, by vapor recovery systems of cargo tanks on tank vehicl
• § 6719 — The Legislature reaffirms its concern over the prevalence of repetitive motion injuries in the workplace and reaffirms the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board’s continuing duty to carry out
• § 6720 — By January 1, 2019, the division shall propose to the standards board for the board’s review and adoption a standard that minimizes heat-related illness and injury among workers working in indoor plac
• § 6721 — (a) The heat illness prevention standards set forth in Section 3395 of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations shall be known, and may be cited, as the Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez heat illness
• § 6722 — (a) (1) The standards board, before December 1, 2025, shall draft a rulemaking proposal to consider revising Section 1526 of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations to require at least one singl
• § 6723 — (a) The division, before December 1, 2027, shall submit a draft rulemaking proposal to revise Sections 1512 and 3400 of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations to require first aid materials in
• § 6725 — (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) The term “agricultural employee” means a person employed in any of the following: (A) An agricultural occupation,
• § 6800 — The division has jurisdiction over: (a) The safety and health of railroad employees employed in offices and in shops devoted to the construction, maintenance or repair of railroad equipment, and all o
• § 6801 — The jurisdiction vested in the division shall in no instance, except those affecting exclusively the safety of employees, impair, diminish, or in any way affect the jurisdiction of the Public Utilitie
• § 6802 — If the division makes or issues any order, decision, ruling or direction under this chapter which, in the judgment of the Public Utilities Commission, unduly and prejudicially interferes with the cons
• § 6900 — Notwithstanding Section 6800, the Public Utilities Commission shall enforce the provisions of this chapter.
• § 6900.1 — This Act shall be known and cited as the Railroad Anti-Featherbedding Law of 1964.
• § 6900.5 — It is the policy of the people of the State of California that featherbedding practices in the railroad industry should be eliminated and that national settlement of labor controversies relating to th
• § 6901 — (a) No common carrier operating more than four trains each way per day of 24 hours on any main track or branch line of railroad within this state, or on any part of a main track or branch line, shall
• § 6902 — (a) For purposes of this section, “revenue service” means passenger train service during which passengers are carried or are scheduled to be carried.
• § 6903 — (a) Effective February 1, 2016, a train or light engine used in connection with the movement of freight shall not be operated unless it has a crew consisting of at least two individuals.
• § 6904 — Nothing in this chapter shall apply to a locomotive or locomotives without cars, except that each locomotive shall have one engineer and one fireman when being moved in train under steam, unless the e
• § 6905 — This chapter shall not apply to any relief or wrecking train in any case where a number of employees sufficient to comply with this chapter is not available for service on such relief or wrecking trai
• § 6906 — No common carrier shall employ any person as: (a) A locomotive engineer who has not had at least three years’ actual service as a locomotive fireman or one year’s actual service as a locomotive engine
• § 6907 — Nothing in this chapter shall apply to the running or operating of locomotives or motor power cars to and from trains at terminals by hostlers or of steam locomotives or motive power cars to and from
• § 6908 — Any violation of this chapter is a misdemeanor.
• § 6909 — Nothing in this chapter shall apply to the operation of any train by a common carrier during times of strikes or walkouts, participated in by any of the employees mentioned in this chapter.
• § 6910 — Nothing in this chapter shall apply to gasoline motor cars operated exclusively on branch lines or to trains of less than three cars propelled by electricity.
• § 6950 — On any railroad train where the engine is accompanied by a tender of the Vanderbilt or similar type of construction and where the clearance between the overhang of the roof of the cab of the engine an
• § 6951 — Any railroad company operating a line in whole or in part within this state, or any receiver of any railroad, that fails to comply with any provision of section 6950 is guilty of a misdemeanor, punish
• § 6952 — Every railroad company operating engines within any part of this state shall provide each engine cab with a substantial and safe handrail along the top on each side of the cab extending from the front
• § 6953 — Any electric car operated in interurban service and any electric locomotive shall be equipped exclusively with laminated safety glass in the compartment of the motorman or engineer, or if there is no
• § 6954 — On and after the first day of September, 1946, it shall be unlawful to operate any electric car in interurban service or any electric locomotive which is not so equipped with laminated safety glass.
• § 6955 — Laminated safety glass is glass so treated or combined with other materials as to reduce, in comparison with ordinary sheet glass or plate glass, the likelihood of injury to persons, by objects from e
• § 6956 — Any common carrier violating Sections 6953 or 6954 is guilty of a misdemeanor for each violation, punishable by a fine of not less than two hundred dollars ($200) for each offense.