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Subchapter 5. Electrical Safety Orders
Group 2. High-Voltage Electrical Safety Orders
Article 2. Administration (Formerly Article 51)
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§2705. Scope.


These High-Voltage Electrical Safety Orders are intended to establish essential requirements and minimum standards for the installation, operation, and maintenance of electrical installations and equipment to provide practical safety and such freedom from danger to personnel as the employment reasonably permits.

These orders are not to be regarded as a design specification or an instruction manual for untrained personnel.

(Title 24, Part 3, Section 90-1.)

NOTE: Authority cited: Section 142.3, Labor Code. Reference: Section 142.3, Labor Code; and Section 18943(c), Health and Safety Code.

HISTORY

1. Editorial correction adding NOTE filed 11-2-83 (Register 83, No. 45). 2. Amendment filed 12-10-87; operative 1-9-88 (Register 88, No. 1).

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