Multi-employer Work Sites
Multi-employer work sites are work locations where more than
one employer and his or her employees work, usually but not
necessarily at the same time. Most construction sites are
multi-employer work sites, and therefore more than one employer
is responsible for safety at these work sites. Each employer
is required to notify the other employers of hazards and to
guard against exposing their own employees as well as all
other employees on the site.
The four categories of employers who may be cited by Cal/OSHA
for employee exposures to violative conditions are identified
in 336.10.
A. An exposing employer is an employer whose employees were
exposed to the violative condition at the work site regardless
of whether that employer created the violative condition.
B. A creating employer is an employer who actually created
the violative condition.
C. A controlling employer is an employer who is responsible,
by contract or through actual practice, for safety and health
conditions at the work site and who has the authority to correct
the violation.
D. A correcting employer is an employer who has the responsibility
to correct the violative condition.
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