La. Admin. Code tit. 40 § VII-541

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Section VII-541 - Registered Student Learners

A. For purposes of this Chapter, registered student learners means minor students participating in job training programs approved by and administered by the Louisiana Office of Career and Technical Education or the Louisiana Community and Technical College System.

B. Registered Student Learners may be exempt from hazardous occupation prohibitions concerning the following equipment and job tasks, provided that all conditions of Subsection C below are met:

1. power-driven woodworking machines;

2. power-driven circular saws, band saws, and guillotine shears;

3. power-driven metal-forming, punching and shearing machines;

4. power-driven paper product machines;

5. roofing operations;

6. excavation operations;

7. slaughtering, meat-packing or processing, or rendering;

8. welding operations.

C. Conditions

1. Such student learner is employed under a written agreement which provides:

a. that the work of the student learner in the occupations declared hazardous shall be incidental to the training;

b. that such work shall be intermittent and for short periods of time and under the direct and close supervision of a qualified and experienced person;

c. that safety instruction shall be given by the school and correlated by the employer with on-the-job training;

d. that a schedule of organized and progressive work processes to be performed on the job shall have been prepared and made a part of the written agreement; and

e. that the written agreement be signed by the school coordinator, the employer, the minor student learner and the student's consenting parent or guardian.

La. Admin. Code tit. 40, § VII-541

Promulgated by the Department of Labor, Office of Regulatory Services, LR 30:2066 (September 2004).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 23:161.