CHAPTER 6. Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board [140. - 147.6.]

Heading of Chapter 6 amended by Stats. 1973, Ch. 993.

§§ 140–147.6 · 27 sections

§ 140 (a) There is in the Department of Industrial Relations, the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board which consists of seven members who shall be…
§ 141 (a) The terms of office of the members of the board shall be four years and they shall hold office until the appointment and qualification of a successor. The…
§ 142 The Division of Occupational Safety and Health shall enforce all occupational safety and health standards adopted pursuant to this chapter, and those…
§ 142.1 The board shall meet at least monthly. The meetings shall be rotated throughout the state at locations designated by the chairman. All meetings held by the…
§ 142.2 At each of its meetings, the board shall make time available to interested persons to propose new or revised orders or standards appropriate for adoption…
§ 142.3 (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…
§ 142.4 (a) Occupational safety and health standards and orders shall be adopted, amended, or repealed as provided in Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of…
§ 142.7 (a) On or before October 1, 1987, the board shall adopt an occupational safety and health standard concerning hazardous substance removal work, so as to…
§ 143 (a) Any employer may apply to the board for a permanent variance from an occupational safety and health standard, order, special order, or portion thereof,…
§ 143.1 The board shall conduct hearings on such requests for a permanent variance after employees or employee representatives are properly notified and given an…
§ 143.2 The board, acting as a whole, may adopt, amend, or repeal rules of practice and procedure pertaining to hearings on applications for permanent variances,…
§ 144 (a) The authority of any agency, department, division, bureau or any other political subdivision other than the Division of Occupational Safety and Health to…
§ 144.5 (a) The Division of Occupational Safety and Health in connection with the enforcement of occupational safety and health standards adopted pursuant to this…
§ 144.6 In promulgating standards dealing with toxic materials or harmful physical agents, the board shall adopt that standard which most adequately assures, to the…
§ 144.7 (a) The board shall, no later than January 15, 1999, adopt an emergency regulation revising the bloodborne pathogen standard currently set forth in Section…
§ 144.8 (a) As used in this section the following definitions shall apply: (1) “Antineoplastic drug” means a chemotherapeutic agent that controls or kills cancer…
§ 144.9 (a) As used in this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Board” means the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board. (2) “Division” means the…
§ 145 The board may employ necessary assistants, officers, experts, and such other employees as it deems necessary. All such personnel of the board shall be under…
§ 145.1 The board and its duly authorized representatives in the performance of its duties shall have the powers of a head of a department as set forth in Article 2…
§ 146 In the conduct of hearings related to permanent variances, the board and its representatives are not bound by common law or statutory rules of evidence or by…
§ 147 The board shall refer to the Division of Occupational Safety and Health for evaluation any proposed occupational safety or health standard or variance from…
§ 147.1 In connection with the development and promulgation of occupational health standards the Division of Occupational Safety and Health shall perform all of the…
§ 147.2 (a) As used in this section, “Hazard Evaluation System and Information Service” or “HESIS” means the repository established pursuant to subdivision (b). (b) In…
§ 147.3 (a) When the Division of Occupational Safety and Health receives a report from the State Department of Public Health pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section…
§ 147.4 (a) By January 1, 2016, the department shall convene an advisory committee to evaluate whether changes are needed to align the general industry safety orders…
§ 147.5 (a) By January 1, 2017, the Division of Occupational Safety and Health shall convene an advisory committee to evaluate whether there is a need to develop…
§ 147.6 (a) By March 1, 2018, the Division of Occupational Safety and Health shall convene an advisory committee to evaluate whether there is a need to develop…