CHAPTER 3. Responsibilities and Duties of Employers and Employees

Chapter 3 repealed and added by Stats. 1973, Ch. 993.

§§ 6400–6413.5 · 31 sections

§ 6400 (a) Every employer shall furnish employment and a place of employment that is safe and healthful for the employees therein. (b) On multiemployer worksites,…
§ 6401 Every employer shall furnish and use safety devices and safeguards, and shall adopt and use practices, means, methods, operations, and processes which are…
§ 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…
§ 6401.7 (a) Every employer shall establish, implement, and maintain an effective injury prevention program. The program shall be written, except as provided in…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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. It is the intent of the…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 6408 All employers shall provide information to employees in the following ways, as prescribed by authorized regulations: (a) Posting of information regarding…
§ 6409 (a) Every physician as defined in Section 3209.3 who attends any injured employee shall file a complete report of that occupational injury or occupational…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 6410.5 The reports required by subdivision (a) of Section 6409, subdivision (a) of Section 6409.1, and Section 6413 shall contain, prominently stated, the statement…
§ 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…
§ 6412 No report of injury or illness required by subdivision (a) of Section 6409.1 shall be open to public inspection or made public, nor shall those reports be…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 6413.5 Any employer or physician who fails to comply with any provision of subdivision (a) of Section 6409, or Section 6409.1, 6409.2, 6409.3, or 6410 may be assessed…