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 the enforcement of effective standards, assisting and encouraging employers to maintain safe and healthful working conditions, and by providing for research, information, education, training, and enforcement in the field of occupational safety and health. Ca. Lab. Code § 6300 Repealed and added by Stats
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 standards and orders, or special orders requiring such employment and place of employment to be safe, and requiring the protection of the life, safety, and health of every employee in such employment or place of employment. Ca. Lab. Code § 6307 Repealed and added by Stats. 1973, Ch. 993.
(a) (1) The board, by an affirmative vote of at least four members, may adopt, amend or repeal occupational safety and health standards and orders. The board shall be the only agency in the state authorized to adopt occupational safety and health standards. (2) The board shall adopt standards at least as effective as the federal standards for all issues for which federal standards have been promulgated under Section 6 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (P.L. 91-596) within six months
(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. (b) "Employee" also includes volunteer firefighters covered by Division 4 (commencing with Section 3200) pursuant to Section 3361. (c) Subdivision (b) shall become operative on January 1, 2004. (d) This act does not affect claims that arose pursuant to Division 5 of this code between January 1, 2002, and the effective date of this
(a) Scope and Application. This section applies to all occupational exposure to blood or other potentially infectious materials as defined by subsection (b) of this section. EXCEPTION: This regulation does not apply to the construction industry. (b) Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following shall apply: "Biological Cabinet" means a device enclosed except for necessary exhaust purposes on three sides and top and bottom, designed to draw air inward by means of mechanical ventilation